MEMOIRS OF AN ANTI-SEMITE
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* A European classic * Set in Rumania, Austria and Germany between the last century's world wars, this is the story of one man. 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.
Author: Gregor Rezzori
Format: Paperback, 304 pages, 130mm x 197mm, 205 g
Published: 2002, Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
* A European classic * Set in Rumania, Austria and Germany between the last century's world wars, this is the story of one man. 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.
MEMOIRS OF AN ANTI-SEMITE