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A New York Review Books Original
Set only after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on a tragicomic predestine of Tildy, an earlier officer in a army of a now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, dynamic to urge a trait of his intrigue sister-in-law during any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a horde of illusory characters, enchanting us in a mottled knowledge of a city where zero is as it appears—a city of conflicting voices, of furious distortion and distressing disappointment, in which, however, “laughter was everywhere, partial of a atmosphere we breathed, a crackling tragedy in a atmosphere, always prepared to explode in showers of sparks or liberate itself in howling peals.”
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2164 in Books
- Published on: 2012-01-10
- Released on: 2012-01-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.98" h x .80" w x 4.99" l, .88 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
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"The final good remembrancer of a segment that has dead from a map and mind of Europe." --Michael Ignatieff, The New York Review of Books
"This smashing book--literally, a book full of wonders--which lived for too prolonged in shadow, has been brought entirely to light by Philip Boehm's sleek new translation. An Ermine of Czernopol may during final take a place on a shelf alongside The Tin Drum and One Hundred Years of Solitude." -- John Banville
“The author and biographer Gregor von Rezzori was one of a final and many resolute links with a Mid-to-Eastern European world, abounding in story and character, formidable in nationality and racial allegiance, that has left forever, devoured or diluted by unbroken waves of rapaciously rival nationalism…von Rezzori’s aptitude for denunciation that he cultivated roughly like a collector, with a occasional, delicately planted enigmatic word that matched John Updike’s adore for a demeanour and a sound of singular words.” –The Independent (London)
"Any reader of European novel who has not review Gregor Von Rezzori has commited a unthinkable. This is a singular author who writes with unmatched beauty and ability while celebrating a joys of life." --Gary Shteyngart
“Gregor von Rezzori’s novels…have won him many admirers and a repute as a author of luminosity and of top ambition. He has been likened by critics both there and in Europe to Mann, Grass, and Musil.” –BOMB magazine
“A philosophical novel on a inlet of reality…nearly always egghead exciting. Author von Rezzori writes with proverbial aptitude and a spirit of childlike wonder. He has constructed a flashing novel of ideas, a class that ranks in monument with a Tasmanian wolf and a Komodo dragon.” –TIME magazine
“To his admirers a silver-haired citizen of a universe is a glorious hewer of derisive phrases, a master of learned story that springs from this quasi-aristo girl in a gone Austro-Hungarian empire.” –The Toronto Star
"This beautiful, considerable early novel by von Rezzori (The Snows of Yesteryear), easily translated by Boehm, takes place in a illusory city of Czernopol...von Rezzori's biggest achievements are his meditations on a inlet of childhood, generally 'that compact sovereignty of a child' and a light erosion as a once fascinating, puzzling universe starts to exhibit itself as a place of 'crude banality,' that ceases to enthuse any longing. In a near-mythical diagnosis of childhood, a book recalls Nabokov's Speak Memory, or Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows." -- Publishers Weekly
Lost worlds and cities emerge from underneath von Rezzori’s pen, concurrently beautifully remembered and richly imagined. Only a truly good writers can do that.”
—Aleksandar Hemon
About a Author
Gregor von Rezzori (1914–1998) was innate in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), Bukovina, afterwards partial of a Austro-Hungarian Empire. He after described his childhood in a family of disappearing fortunes as one “spent among somewhat insane and dislocated personalities in a duration that also was insane and dislocated and filled with unrest.’’ After study during a University of Vienna, Rezzori changed to Bucharest and enlisted in a Romanian army. During World War II , he lived in Berlin, where he worked as a radio broadcaster and published his initial novel. In West Germany after a war, he wrote for both radio and film and began edition books during a fast rate, including a four-volume Idiot’s Guide to German Society. From a late 1950s on, Rezzori had tools in several French and West German films, including one destined by his crony Louis Malle. In 1967, after spending years personal as a stateless person, Rezzori staid in a fifteenth-century farmhouse outward of Florence with his wife, gallery owners Beatrice Monte
della Corte. There he constructed some of his best-known works, among them Memoirs of an Anti-Semite and a discourse The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography (both published by NYRB Classics).
Philip Boehm has translated countless works from German and Polish by writers including Ingeborg Bachmann, Franz Kafka, and Stefan Chwin. For a museum he has created plays such as Mixtitlan, The Death of Atahualpa, and Return of a Bedbug. He has perceived awards from a American Translators Association, a U.K. Society of Authors, a NEA , PEN America, a Austrian Ministry of Culture, a Mexican-American Fund for Culture, and a Texas Institute of Letters. Currently he is translating Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel. He lives in St. Louis, where he is a artistic executive of Upstream Theater.
Daniel Kehlmann is a widely translated German-Austrian novelist. He has won a Candide Prize, a Literature Prize of a Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, a Kleist Prize, a WELT Literature Prize, and a Thomas Mann Prize. He is a inclusive author of novella and criticism, and 3 of his novels—Me and Kaminski, Measuring a World, and Fame—have been translated into English.
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By P. Wortsman
I recently picked adult Philip Boehm's excellent interpretation of An Ermine in Czernopol, by Gregor von Rezzori, and can't put it down. The book ecstatic me from a ennui of downtown Manhattan insomnia to an illusory Bukovina with a colorful expel of characters, a enlightenment in colourful collapse, before a eastern-most outpost of a Austro-Hungarian Empire, currently in a Ukraine. The interpretation curls around a strange like a firmly wise glove, maintaining a impress of a German judgment structure and a glaze of a sensuous poetry with an roughly fragile deceive of verbs and nouns, nonetheless reading altogether "natural" in an extended robust English--enhanced a approach Joseph Conrad, for instance, enhances typical English.
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By Liza Kirk
This novel was tremendously fun to read, accessible, smart and full of waggish teenager characters that stock Czernopol. Unlinke many complicated novella there was a good understanding of amusement here. Yet, it is woven into a story that unequivocally is about one man's inability to pierce from a 19th century universe of respect and avocation to a clamp ridden, ribald complicated city and a denizens of a night. That this character, a ex troops officer, can't develop and see a changes in multitude occurring aorund him is of march a amusement of it all...Von Rezzori also has a genuine talent for skilfully sketch characters in a few lines that leave an indeliable impress on a reader...I extol NYRB Classics for saving this mislaid classic...next to Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD and a satirical novel called BLUE BLOODBATH by Katrina Von Kessel, ERMINE IN CZERNOPOL is looking like an early favorite for my fave book I've review in some time.
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