Грегор фон Реццори — книжные серии

"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.

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…