Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
Set in Central Europe between World Wars I and II, this work comprises five interrelated stories that depict one man's ambivalent, at times obsessive, relations with Jewish friends and lovers—including his Jewish wife.
Set in Central Europe between World Wars I and II, this work comprises five interrelated stories that depict one man's ambivalent, at times obsessive, relations with Jewish friends and lovers—including his Jewish wife.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781590172469 (1590172469)
Publish date: December 4th 2007
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
World War II,
German Literature,
Short Stories,
Holocaust,
Romania,
Fiction
A fine book by a very interesting manhttp://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/arts/gregor-von-rezzori-83-chronicler-of-a-lost-europe-dies.html?pagewanted=all&src=pmThe book is a compilation of 5 thinly-masked autobiographical remembrances, focusing in the main on his youth and late adolescence in the easte...
Through the first three stories, I felt I was reading something enriching but not terribly enjoyable. It wasn’t dull, the writing was good and the story well set, but it did seem long on monologue. Then I got to the fourth story, “Troth,” which was nothing short of magnificent. What made it magnific...
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