Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories (New York

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Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories (New York Review Books (Paperback))

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-centuryâ€™s ugliest years. Central to each episode is what might be called the narratorâ€™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 toâ€“and makes him complicit inâ€“the terrible realities his era.

Lyrical, witty, satirical, and unblinking, Gregor von Rezzoriâ€™s most controversial work is an intimate foray into the emotional underworld of modern European history.

Country	USA
Author	Gregor Von Rezzori
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Von Rezzori, Gregor/ Eisenberg, Deborah (INT)
EAN	9781590172469
Edition	Main
ISBN	1590172469
Label	NYRB Classics
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
MPN	9781590172469
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	320
PartNumber	9781590172469
PublicationDate	2007-12-04
Publisher	NYRB Classics
ReleaseDate	2007-12-04
SKU	NEW-EARTH-09125
Studio	NYRB Classics

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories (New York Review Books (Paperback))

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