The bestselling author of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite turns the tables and writes an uncompromising memoir of his aristocratic boyhood in Romania. Examining the five most important figures of his youth, Rezzori's autobiography has all the allure of a great novel.
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The bestselling author of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite turns the tables and writes an uncompromising memoir of his aristocratic boyhood in Romania. Examining the five most important figures of his youth, Rezzori's autobiography has all the allure of a great novel.
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New York. 1989. December 1989. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394574427. Translated from the German by H. F. Broch De Rothermann. 292 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting by Anselm Kiefer. Jacket design adapted from the original German edition by Rotraut-Susanne Berner. keywords: Autobiography Translated Germany Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Nine years ago the controversial novel MEMOIRS OF AN ANTI-SEMITE established Gregor von Rezzori's reputation in America. Now, with this compelling book about the five most important figures of his childhood, Rezzori turns the tables and gives us uncompromising nonfiction that has all the allure and storytelling magic of a great novel. The Snows of Yesteryear brings back in glowing colors and radiant light a Central European world that vanished in 1938: the town houses and country estates, the Vienna apartments and the forest preserves of the old Austro-Hungarian aristocracy into which Rezzori was born. The first of five sections in THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR is devoted to Cassandra, the weirdly costumed peasant who was Rezzori's wet nurse and nanny, an amazing comic figure who taught him ‘a salad of Romanian, German, Ruthenian, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish and Yiddish, ' and who watched fiercely and hilariously over his fantasy-laden childhood. She was in every way a contrast to his mother, the subject of the second section, a neurasthenic, stormy-tempered woman of exquisite beauty and bearing, the ‘prototype of a lady' who, after much drama and pain, left Rezzori's father, an architectural historian whose imaginative life was wholly absorbed by the world of hunting and shooting. This bright-natured, old-fashioned, anti-Semitic gentleman was ever bemused by his estranged, unhappy consort, and Rezzori's portrait of him forms a brilliant centerpiece to this book. And then there is the marvelous older sister, who died tragically when only twenty-one, and whose influence on Rezzori was profound, permanent and deeply ambiguous. Lastly comes the inimitable ‘Bunchy, ' the extraordinary governess Miss Lina Strauss (once a friend of Mark Twain), who was imported to teach the young Rezzori as she had taught his mother. In an epilogue, Rezzori offers a haunting account of his visit to Czernowitz fifty-three years after his departure from the Bukovina, and of his poignant efforts to find the scenes of his childhood life there. In giving us five superb portraits with the greatest psychological subtlety, Rezzori also paints a group picture that is dazzling m its social detail, gripping in its dramatic tension and gloriously evocative of a fascinating bygone world. In its own way, also, THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR is a Bildungsroman about the upbringing and formation of a great artist. With 16 black-and-white photographs. inventory #13750.
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Fine in Fine jacket. New York, 1996. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Some slight foxing. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($19.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.
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