The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography

The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century. He recalls his volatile, boar-hunting father, his earthy nursemaid, his fragile, aristocratic mother, his adored governess and the tragic death of his beloved sister, in a luminous story of war, unrest, eccentricity, folk tales, dark forests, night flights, and what it is like to lose your home.

Biographies & Memoirs

Gregor Von Rezzori

Arts & Literature

Penguin Classics/Press

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Picador

In the summer of 1938, young Traugott von Jassilkowski embarks on a social career that he hopes will take him to the heights of the German aristocracy. A cunningly devised wardrobe, a strategic courtship, important weekends with well-placed grandees, the right lunches and boozy evenings with Berlin's smart set: Will these carry him to the top or land him nowhere? In the scintillating narrative style for which he is justly celebrated, Gregor von Rezzori offers this cautionary about Germany at the height of its most dangerous folly.

Oedipus at Stalingrad

Humor & Satire

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The Death of My Brother Abel

A writer, working in a Paris hotel, tries to create a novel from his experiences as a young man before the war and his memories of Germany during and after the war

Literary

Viking / Elisabeth Sifton Books

This is a European classic. Set in Rumania, Austria, Germany and Italy between the last century's world wars, this is a novel of great beauty about men and the histories that define them. Our hero tells of his childhood: his passion for hunting, his love of the wild landscape of Rumania, his ridiculous social snobbery. He leads us through his youth, and between fantastic and colourful stories of Bucharest in the late twenties and early thirties, he dissects his own complicated, at times agonizing, development as a moral creature. We are with him as the Nazis take over Austria; as his own anti-semitism - already such a mixture of belief, caprice and compromise - is shaken to its core. And later on, we meet him as a much older man, one haunted by his own protean character, by the beautiful, but tragic web of memories and events that together form history, and by the greatest love of his life, a beautiful Jewess. 'Here is a work that tackles - without reproof, without illusions, and without shallow moral judgements; by turns engaged and detached, funny and sad, tender and heartless - the phenomenon of anti-Semitism...the tragedy that changed the face of Europe and the world' - Bruce Chatwin.

Memoirs

Viking Adult

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.

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

Vintage

Abruptly leaving his American wife, job, and home, a European-born tycoon purchases a ticket for the famed Orient Express and, as he rides across Europe, muses on the differences between Europe as it is and Europe as he remembers it

The Orient Express

Court voyage par de longs chemins

Kain: Das Letzte Manuskript

C.Bertelsmann Verlag

Ödipus siegt bei Stalingrad

BVT Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag

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