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Román v pěti povídkách Paměti antisemity je neskrývaně autobiografi cký. Jeho autor zvláštně poetickým, mnohdy až básnivým jazykem líčí svůj život i osudy lidí, s nimiž se setkává, a čtenářům tak předestírá nesmírně složitý a propletený svět na území tehdejší habsburské monarchie, nejen v rodné Bukovině, nýbrž i v Bukurešti a ve Vídni, rozporuplný, a přece podivuhodně soudržný, který defi nitivně zmizel s příchodem Hitlera a nacismu. Rezzori se soustřeďuje především na vztah mezi židovským a nežidovským obyvatelstvem.
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Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old 19th century order which had shaped his parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is rendered in these pages.

An NYRB Classics Original

Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic characters, engaging us in a kaleidoscopic experience of a city where nothing is as it appears--a city of discordant voices, of wild ugliness and heartbreaking disappointment, in which, however, "laughter was everywhere, part of the air we breathed, a crackling...

The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth-century's ugliest years. Central to each episode is what might be called the narrator's Jewish Question. He is no Nazi. To the contrary, he is apolitical, accommodating, cosmopolitan. He has Jewish friends and Jewish lovers, and their Jewishness is a...