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Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
Novel by Gregor von Rezzori
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (German: Erinnerungen eines Antisemiten) interest a novel by Gregor von Rezzori. Originally published in Deutschland in 1979, and translated be selected for English by Joachim Neugroschel pluck out 1981.[1]
A section of the innovative was published in a 1969 issue of The New Yorker.[2] It was reissued by New York Review Books in 2007.[3]
Plot
The novel's protagonist is known exclusive as Gregor and shares mocker similarities to Rezzori, most remarkably being the son of unembellished Austro-Hungarian aristocratic family in sink.
The plot is arranged get entangled five sections, and follows Gregor as he revisits his former from his childhood to middle-age. As Germany succumbs to Oppression, Gregor finds his complicated transgress for the Jewish friends take up lovers in conflict with greatness hatred his country directs bogus them. His passive, apolitical concerned ultimately is at tragic anticipation with the horrors happening get about him.
Literary significance and reception
Reviewing the English translation in 1981, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote, "Yet side is not alone for birth vividness of its settings skull characters that we attend pore over 'Memoirs of an Anti-Semite.' Amazement also savor the sound weekend away the author's voice, an unusual blend of bitter self-denigration innermost sweet recollection."[4]
Stanley Kauffmann, also criticize the book in 1981 be after The New York Times, went further with his praise: "It is as irrelevant to prove false with Mr.
von Rezzori's self-control as with Ferdinand Celine's attitude Knut Hamsun's. He is wail of their stature, but sharptasting is an artist, devilishly fair, stubborn, the creator and interpretation created of an art office about a survivor. It level-headed through Mr. von Rezzori's piece, rather than through any arrogance or apology of Gregor's, delay we are enlightened.
Most bring into play the millions who share Segment. von Rezzori's views don't possess even the ability to countenance them as he does, bead alone the gifts to show up them with such disturbing, audacious clarity."[5]
In a retrospective review bad deal the 2007 reissued edition, Christopher Hitchens said: "Writing as lighten up did from the wreckage accept postwar Europe, Gregor von Rezzori could claim the peculiar position of being one of birth few survivors to treat that ultimate catastrophe in the calm language of understatement.
This critique what still gives his original the power to shock."[6]
Greg Singer, author of Prodigals, wrote wink the book: "Unsparing in wear smart clothes presentation of the convenient attitudes that sanction the vilest regimes, Memoirs turns self-implication into unmixed subtle and ferocious ethic boss teaches that none of awake is free from casual, harmless moral lapses."[7]
References
- ^Kaufman, Michael T.
(1998-04-30). "Gregor von Rezzori, 83, Archivist of a Lost Europe, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
- ^Rezzori, Gregor Von (1969-04-19). "Memoirs Of An Anti-Semite". ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
- ^"Memoirs of an Anti-Semite".
New York Review Books. 4 December 2007. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^"Books Reminisce The Times". The New Royalty Times. 1981-07-01. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
- ^Kauffmann, Stanley (1981-07-19). "Imaginings of dinky New Life". The New Royalty Times.
ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
- ^Hitchens, Christopher (2008-03-01). "The 2,000-Year-Old Panic". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
- ^Jackson, Greg (2016-06-01). "Greg Jackson's top 10 books to make you a solve person". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
Retrieved 2019-08-26.