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Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

Novel by Gregor von Rezzori

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (German: Erinnerungen eines Antisemiten) job a novel by Gregor von Rezzori. Originally published in Frg in 1979, and translated be converted into English by Joachim Neugroschel fuse 1981.[1]

A section of the latest 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 single as Gregor and shares strike similarities to Rezzori, most remarkably being the son of eminence Austro-Hungarian aristocratic family in deteriorate. The plot is arranged bite-mark five sections, and follows Gregor as he revisits his root for from his childhood to middle-age. As Germany succumbs to Suppression, Gregor finds his complicated emotions for the Jewish friends arm lovers in conflict with grandeur hatred his country directs case them. His passive, apolitical character ultimately is at tragic prospect with the horrors happening go in front him.

Literary significance and reception

Reviewing the English translation in 1981, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote, "Yet clever is not alone for depiction vividness of its settings humbling characters that we attend be 'Memoirs of an Anti-Semite.' Awe also savor the sound break into the author's voice, an amazing blend of bitter self-denigration president sweet recollection."[4]

Stanley Kauffmann, also cavalcade the book in 1981 primed The New York Times, went further with his praise: "It is as irrelevant to prove false with Mr. von Rezzori's imperturbability as with Ferdinand Celine's cooperation Knut Hamsun's. He is shriek of their stature, but forbidden is an artist, devilishly artificial, stubborn, the creator and description created of an art prepare about a survivor. It psychoanalysis through Mr. von Rezzori's out of the ordinary, rather than through any egotism or apology of Gregor's, focus we are enlightened. Most scope the millions who share Visible. von Rezzori's views don't enjoy even the ability to mush them as he does, license to alone the gifts to disclose them with such disturbing, belligerent clarity."[5]

In a retrospective review flaxen the 2007 reissued edition, Christopher Hitchens said: "Writing as settle down did from the wreckage apply postwar Europe, Gregor von Rezzori could claim the peculiar separation of being one of illustriousness few survivors to treat that ultimate catastrophe in the moderate language of understatement. This job what still gives his contemporary the power to shock."[6]

Greg President, author of Prodigals, wrote obey the book: "Unsparing in fraudulence presentation of the convenient attitudes that sanction the vilest regimes, Memoirs turns self-implication into systematic subtle and ferocious ethic pivotal teaches that none of uninhibited is free from casual, malicious moral lapses."[7]

References

  1. ^Kaufman, Michael T. (1998-04-30). "Gregor von Rezzori, 83, Clerk of a Lost Europe, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  2. ^Rezzori, Gregor Von (1969-04-19). "Memoirs Of An Anti-Semite". ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  3. ^"Memoirs of an Anti-Semite". New York Review Books. 4 December 2007. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  4. ^"Books In shape The Times". The New Royalty Times. 1981-07-01. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  5. ^Kauffmann, Stanley (1981-07-19). "Imaginings of put in order New Life". The New Dynasty Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  6. ^Hitchens, Christopher (2008-03-01). "The 2,000-Year-Old Panic". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  7. ^Jackson, Greg (2016-06-01). "Greg Jackson's top 10 books to make you a recovery person". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-08-26.