Последние издания книг Gregor von Rezzori

Книга спогадів блискучого німецькомовного оповідача, уродженця Чернівців Ґреґора фон Реццорі (1914-1998) «Торішній сніг» («Квіти в снігу») не є ні автобіографією, ні мемуарами в усталеному сенсі цього слова. В ній письменник веде нас у своє раннє дитинство, проведене на Буковині, й колоритно змальовує образи людей, які його оточували: няньки-годувальниці Касандри, своїх батьків, рано померлої сестри та виховательки Штраусерль. З перспективи Я-оповідача він відтворює картини життя своєї родини в першій третині 20 століття, доповнюючи її екскурсами в пізніші часи та інші, віддаленіші топоси. Для іронічно й скептично налаштованого автора, яким…

Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine — a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. 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 nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is beautifully rendered in the pages of The Snows of Yesteryear.
The book is a series of portraits — amused, fond, sometimes appalling — of Rezzori’s family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children’s health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance.

"The city lies somewhere in the godforsaken southeastern part of Europe and is named Czernopol," Gregor von Rezzori writes in the prelude to this major early novel, the first part of a trilogy based on the author's childhood that would grow to include some of his finest work: the scintillating memoir The Snows of Yesteryear and the trickily titled novel Memoirs of an Anti-Semite. In The Ermine of Czernopol, Rezzori summons the disorderly and unpredictable energies of a town where everything in the world is seemingly mixed up together, a multicultural society that existed long before the idea of multiculturalism. The novel, ostensibly…

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 matter of abiding fascination to him. His deepest and most defining relationship may even be the strange dance of attraction and repulsion that throughout his life he has conducted with this forbidden, desired, inescapable, imaginary Jewish other. And yet it is just this relationship that has blinded him to—and makes him complicit in—the terrible realities of his era. Lyrical, witty, satirical, and unblinking, Gregor von Rezzori's most controversial work is an intimate foray into the emotional underworld of modern European history.

Maghrebinische Geschichten Ort des Geschehens ist das utopische Maghrebinien. In „tolldreisten Lügengeschichten“ erzählt Gregor von Rezzori geistreich und mit viel Witz von der Geschichte und Kultur, vor allem aber von den skurrilen Bewohnern dieses balkanischen Fantasielandes. Seien es verschlagene Tagediebe, betrunkene Maler oder Knoblauch kauende Herrscher, die Reise durch das ehrwürdige Maghrebinien hält auf jeder Seite neue Überraschungen für den Leser bereit.