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The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth-century’s ugliest years. Central to each episode is what might be called the narrator’s Jewish Question. He is no Nazi. To the contrary, he is apolitical, accommodating, cosmopolitan. He has Jewish friends and Jewish lovers, and their Jewishness is a matter of abiding fascination to him. His deepest and most defining relationship may even be the strange dance of attraction and repulsion that throughout his life he has conducted with this forbidden, desired, inescapable, imaginary Jewish other. And yet it is just his relationship that has blinded him to–and makes him complicit in–the terrible realities his era. Lyrical, witty, satirical, and unblinking, Gregor von Rezzori’s most controversial work is an intimate foray into the emotional underworld of modern European history.
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Memoirs Of An Anti-Semite, Gregor von Rezzori
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- Titel
- Memoirs Of An Anti-Semite
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Gregor von Rezzori
- Verlag
- New York Review of Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1590172469
- ISBN13
- 9781590172469
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Kurzgeschichten, Deutsche Literatur, Kriege, 20. Jahrhundert, Juden, Österreichische Literatur, Rumänien, 30er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, 20er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1979
- Originaltitel
- Memoiren eines Antisemiten
- Bewertung
- 4,15 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth-century’s ugliest years. Central to each episode is what might be called the narrator’s Jewish Question. He is no Nazi. To the contrary, he is apolitical, accommodating, cosmopolitan. He has Jewish friends and Jewish lovers, and their Jewishness is a matter of abiding fascination to him. His deepest and most defining relationship may even be the strange dance of attraction and repulsion that throughout his life he has conducted with this forbidden, desired, inescapable, imaginary Jewish other. And yet it is just his relationship that has blinded him to–and makes him complicit in–the terrible realities his era. Lyrical, witty, satirical, and unblinking, Gregor von Rezzori’s most controversial work is an intimate foray into the emotional underworld of modern European history.