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Brought in to restore order, the army displays an even greater appetite for destruction than the mobs that they have been sent to control. By the end of the evening, forty of Černopol’s citizens lie in the morgue. This sudden outburst of violence comes as something of a shock in what is otherwise a disarmingly warm, witty, nostalgic book about life on Europe’s eastern fringes in the 1930s. Nobody quite like Rezzori dealt with the big themes of the Twentieth Century with such deceptive lightness of touch. Rereading the book in 2015, these scenes seem disturbingly contemporary. Despite being regarded by critics as one of the key reference points in twentieth-century Central European literature, von Rezzori remains the kind of writer that many people have heard about, but never actually read. Babel-land. Son of an Italian-Austrian civil servant with aristocratic habits and an addiction to hunting, Gregor von Rezzori (1914-1998) was born as Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d’Arezzo in , the multi-ethnic capital of what was then the Austrian crown land of Bukovina. Following the fall of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 Chernivtsi became part of - and is now an important university city in southwestern Ukraine. As he wrote in the 1994 memoir Anecdotage, “I still have the linguistic confusion of that fabulous land in my ear: Romanian, Ukrainian, German, , Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, Armenian, Romany. A babel in which – thanks to a down-to-earth amalgam of heartfelt concern and worldly cynicism – everybody understood each other perfectly.” Von Rezzori’s formative years, spent in the exotic, multinational milieu of the Bukovina, proved to be an inexhaustible source of literary inspiration. However von Rezzori’s nostalgia for his inter-war East European homeland was always clouded by the knowledge that it was a flawed paradise, a corner of the Habsburg Empire from which the Habsburgs themselves had forever departed, and where the catastrophe of the Second World War was always lurking just around the corner. In our current epoch of corporate serfdom, conservative populism and creeping putinization, it’s increasingly tempting to draw comparisons between the Europe of today and the Europe of the inter-war years, as if we, too, are stumbling towards a dramatic historic turning-point, the exact nature of which we cannot yet discern. The time is therefore ripe for a re-reading of von Rezzori; and thanks to NYRB Classics, the three novelized memoirs that make up his so-called Bukovina Trilogy (An Ermine in Czernopol, The Snows of Yesteryear and Memoirs of an Anti- Semite) are all currently in print. The very title of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, the most internationally celebrated of von Rezzori’s books, sums up perfectly the mischievous, ironic, but ultimately unsettling nature of von Rezzori’s style. A picaresque, erotic and largely autobiographical novel about a young man’s adventures in inter-war and , it’s also a subtle portrait of a society drifting blithely towards disaster, unaware of its own complicity in the mass crimes which lie in the immediate future. Arguably Josef Roth (another writer born on Habsburg Empire’s eastern borderlands) is the only other Central European novelist who described the world of the 1920s and 30s with the same mixture of jocular mischief and woozy unease. After early schooling in Chernivtsi von Rezzori was sent to German-language schools first in the Transylvanian city of Brasov, then in Fürstenfeld near Vienna. Sporadic and inconclusive courses of study followed; mining in Leoben; then architecture and medicine in Vienna. Von Rezzori spent four years in Bucharest before returning to Vienna, then moving to in 1938. Salon Lion. Von Rezzori’s rather complicated background ensured that he avoided active service in World War II, emerging after the war to serve as a radio journalist in Hamburg. He covered the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, but also wrote humorous fictional sketches about the imaginary world of Maghrebinia – based on his Bukovinian homeland – that were broadcast on the radio. The stories were published under the title Maghrebinian Tales (Maghrebinische Geschichten) in 1953, a book that went on to become a million-seller. The Tales ran against the grain of German post-war literature, representing an escapist retreat into a world in which World War II had not yet happened. 1958’s An Ermine in Czernopol was in many ways the literary outgrowth of the Maghrebinian Tales: a nostalgic journey back to the land of von Rezzori’s youth, but also a bitter reflection on the social forces that had destroyed it. The book won Rezzori literary respectability, but he remained associated in the public mind with popular culture, writing screenplays for romantic comedies, sometimes acting in them too (notably in ’s 1965 comedy Viva Maria!, in which he appeared alongside and ), writing articles for Playboy magazine and authoring witty, satirical books such as An Idiot’s Guide to German Society. By the early 1980s he was the suave, congenial host of Austrian TV series Jolly Joker, which took a gentle, uncritical look at celebrities and their lifestyles – sadly none of these appearances have so far resurfaced on Youtube. The fact that von Rezzori married three times seemed to be in keeping with the public perception of him as what Germans call a Salonlöwe – charming, likeable, but also dangerously predatory. His third wife was Italian art dealer Beatrice Monti della Corte; the couple lived in fine style in Tuscany, which is where he died on April 23 1998. His Tuscan connections are remembered in the Gregor von Rezzori international literature prize, presented at the annual Festival dei scrittori in . Even today von Rezzori continues to be regarded by the German-speaking world as a popular entertainer rather than a big beast of European literature. In the rest of the world, however, von Rezzori’s genre-straddling career is seen as something of an advantage, providing exactly the kind of background that makes the charmers, tricksters and womanizers of his fiction so convincing. It was the short story Troth, published in the New Yorker magazine in 1969, that helped make Rezzori’s international reputation. Set in Vienna on the eve of the Nazi German takeover in 1938, it is narrated by a young man who goes along with the prevailing political drift to the right while at the same time being swept into the social circle of a fascinating, intelligent, liberated Jewish girl called Minka. Troth went on to become a central part of the critically-acclaimed Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories, (published in German in 1979; English in 1981). Von Rezzori’s alter ego in Memoirs is constantly falling in love with Jews (and also Gypsies, Armenians and any other non-Austrian race he comes across), despite a conservative Austrian upbringing in which any association with Jews was considered to be a betrayal of good etiquette. It’s probably in North America that von Rezzori’s status as both a great writer and an important witness to the troubled twentieth century continues to be nurtured. Europe’s relationship with von Rezzori is rather more ambiguous; an attitude which might be explained by von Rezzori’s complicated heritage, and the fact that he lies outside any established national canon. Kiš, Krleža, Kundera, Kertesz. According to Andrei Corbea-Hoisie, professor of German literature at the University of Iasi in Romania and a leading expert on the literary heritage the Bukovina, “it was Italian scholar Claudio Magris who first placed Rezzori on the same level as Robert Musil and Heimito von Doderer, in the category of “Post-Habsburg” authors. French critics in particular – and also Americans and Italians - have regarded Rezzori as a canonical writer; but strangely, the German and Austrian critics have failed to do that. But if we think about it, the stylistic and thematic points of contact between Rezzori’s literature and that of Bruno Schulz, Danilo Kiš, Miroslav Krleža, Sandor Marai, Milan Kundera and even Imre Kertesz are numerous and go deep. I look forward to a new generation that will analyze these common elements, and go beyond the “national” fixation that is still present in the evaluation of literature produced in this region. And I also look forward to the day when German philology to tell us why Rezzori, who was part of the same generation as Böll, Siegfried Lenz and others, ended up writing such a different kind of literature from that of his contemporaries.” Another prominent Rezzori enthusiast is Martin Pollack, the Austrian writer, journalist and translator whose own fascination with the eastern borderlands of the Habsburg Empire resulted in the book Galicia: a Journey Through the Lost World of Eastern Galicia and Bukovina, first published in 1984 and still in print in German today. “Von Rezzori is one of the most important German- language writers of the 20th century – and at the same time, unfortunately one of the most underrated. He is certainly not so well known - and not much read - in contemporary Austria. This might have to do with a mentality widespread in Austria to forget or rather repress unpleasant things which have to do with the past. This is true for the First World War and even more so for the Second, especially the Austrian participation in the Holocaust. There might also be a second explanation: Gregor von Rezzori is seen by many as a representative of Eastern Europe – an area which many Austrians don’t want to have anything to do with. Many seem to forget that they have their roots in the so-called “East“; in Eastern or Central Europe, or in the Balkans.” As far as Pollack is concerned, the works of von Rezzori remain as relevant as ever: “The world which Gregor von Rezzori writes about is gone, and cannot be brought back: it was destroyed by the two totalitarian systems which reigned in the twentieth century – Nazism and Stalinism. However we are currently living through times which remind us of 1914 –the aggression of Putin’s Russia against the Ukraine, in the name of protecting the Russian people across the border. We are also witnessing a rise of nationalism, not only in Russia but in many other countries too – for instance in Hungary where these tendencies are very strong and dangerous. So it’s a good idea to re-read authors like Gregor von Rezzori who wrote about the big catastrophes in the last century which were brought about mainly by nationalism. Von Rezzori was brought up in a multi-lingual surrounding which fell apart before his eyes – and it is this process which he describes so movingly in his books.” S�mtliche Maghrebinische Geschichten by Rezzori Gregor Von. Rowohlt, Reinbeck / Hamburg, 1967, , 366, Hardcover (gebunden), 8�, ohne Schutzumschlag, NaV, Einband: leicht besto�en Seiten leicht gebr�unt (2 Exemplare lieferbar: 92126). Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Shop With Us. Sell With Us. About Us. Find Help. Other AbeBooks Companies. Follow AbeBooks. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Gregor von Rezzori (1914–1998) Based in St. Louis Philip Boehm is the author of numerous translations from Polish and German. At this event, he will discuss his recent translations of The hunger angel, a novel by Nobel laureate Herta Mueller that conjures the distorted world of the Gulag labor camp in all its physical and moral absurdity, and An Ermine in Czernopol, Gregor Von Rezzori's novel set just after that centers on the tragicomic fate of an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. Location: Street: Left Bank Books - Central West End Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound) … (more) Cambridge Forecast Group Blog. “SKUSHNO” AS A KIND OF SPIRITUAL VOID: GREGOR VON REZZORI. Gregor von Rezzori (May 13, 1914 – April 23, 1998) “The Russian word skushno is introduced in his writings. It appears in Gregor von Rezzori’s novel Memoirs of an Anti-Semite . That novel begins in Czernowitz, close to the scene of the action in Nine Lives . Rezzori admits that skushno is a difficult word to translate but suggests ‘a spiritual void that sucks you in like a vague but intensely urgent longing’.” Gregor von Rezzori (born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d’Arezzo; May 13, 1914 – April 23, 1998) was an Austrian-born German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays, as well as an actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic and art collector. He was fluent in German, Romanian, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, French, and English; during his life, von Rezzori was successively a citizen of Austria-Hungary, Romania, and the , before becoming a stateless person and spending his final years as a citizen of Austria. He married Beatrice Monti della Corte. Biography. He was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, part of Austria-Hungary at the time. He originated in a Sicilian aristocratic family from the Province of Ragusa, who had settled in Vienna by the mid-18th century. His father was an Austrian civil servant based in Czernowitz. The family remained in the region after it became part of the Romanian Kingdom, and Gregor von Rezzori obtained Romanian citizenship. After World War I, von Rezzori studied in colleges in Braşov, Fürstenfeld and Vienna. He began studying mining at the University of Leoben, then architecture and medicine at the , where he eventually graduated in arts. In mid-1930 he moved to Bucharest, took up military service in the Romanian Army, and made a living as an artist. In 1938 he moved to Berlin, where he became active as a novelist, journalist, writer in radio broadcasting, and film production. Given his Romanian citizenship, von Rezzori was not drafted by Nazi authorities during World War II. Until the mid-1950s, he worked as an author at the broadcast company Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk. He regularly published novels and stories, as well as being engaged in film production as a screenplay author and actor (starring alongside actors such as Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, , or ). Beginning in the early 1960s, Rezzori lived between and , with sojourns in the United States, eventually settling in Tuscany. Besides authoring and performing, he and his spouse Beatrice Monti della Corte were significant art collectors, and together founded the Santa Maddalena Retreat for Writers. He died in Santa Maddalena, part of Florence‘s Donnini frazione . Literary works. Rezzori began his career as a writer of light novels, but he first encountered success in 1953 with the Maghrebinian Tales , a suite of droll stories and anecdotes from an imaginary land called “Maghrebinia”, which reunited in a grotesque and parodic key traits of his multicultural Bukovinian birthplace, of extinct Austria-Hungary and of Bucharest of his youth. Over the years, Rezzori published further Maghrebinian Tales , which increased his reputation of language virtuosity and free spirit, writing with wit, insight and elegance. [1] Other books, such as The Death of My Brother Abel , Oedipus at Stalingrad , or The Snows of Yesteryear , recording the fading world at the time of the World Wars, have been celebrated for their powerful descriptive prose, nuance and style. [2] Von Rezzori first came to the attention of English-speaking readers with the 1969 publication of the story “Memoirs of an Anti-Semite,” in The New Yorker. On this occasion, , who was born in Bukovina’s neighboring Maramureş, wrote: “Rezzori addresses the major problems of our time, and his voice echoes with the disturbing and wonderful magic of a true storyteller.” [3] In his Guide for Idiots through the German Society , von Rezzori also used his noted taste for satire. Although he was not unanimously perceived as a major author in the German-speaking area, his posthumous reception has arguably confirmed him among the most important modern German- language authors. [2] Published titles. Flamme , die sich verzehrt (“Self-extinguishing Flame”, novel, 1940) Rombachs einsame Jahre , (“Rombach’s Lonely Years”, novel, 1942) Rose Manzani (novel, 1944) Maghrebinische Geschichten (“Tales of Maghrebinia”, 1953) Ödipus siegt bei Stalingrad (“Oedipus at Stalingrad”, 1954) Männerfibel , 1955 Ein Hermelin in Tschernopol. Ein maghrebinischer Roman (“The Hussar”, 1958) Bogdan im Knoblauchwald. Ein maghrebinisches Märchen (“Bogdan in the Garlic Forest. A Maghrebinian Tale”, 1962) Die Toten auf ihre Plätze. Tagebuch des Films Viva Maria (“The Dead on their Places. Journal of the Movie ‘Viva Maria'”, 1966) 1001 Jahr Maghrebinien. Eine Festschrift (1967) Der Tod meines Bruders Abel (“The Death of My Brother Abel”, novel, 1976) Greif zur Geige, Frau Vergangenheit (novel, 1978) Denkwürdigkeiten eines Antisemiten (“The Memoirs of an Anti-Semite”, 1979) Der arbeitslose König. Maghrebinisches Märchen (“The Jobless King. A Maghrebinian Tale”, 1981) A Stranger in Lolitaland. An Essay , first published in English by Vanity Fair Blumen im Schnee – Portraitstudien zu einer Autobiographie, die ich nie schreiben werde. Auch: Versuch der Erzählweise eines gleicherweise nie geschriebenen Bildungsromans (“The Snows Of Yesteryear”, autobiographical essays, 1989) Über dem Kliff (“Beyond the Cliff”, stories, 1991) Idiotenführer durch die Deutsche Gesellschaft. Hochadel, Adel, Schickeria, Prominenz (“Guide for Idiots through the German Society. Aristocracy, Swells, Notables”, 1992) Begegnungen (“Encounters”, 1992) Greisengemurmel . Ein Rechenschaftsbericht (1994) Italien , Vaterland der Legenden, Mutterland der Mythen. Reisen durch die europäischen Vaterländer oder wie althergebrachte Gemeinplätze durch neue zu ersetzen sind (1996) Frankreich . Gottesland der Frauen und der Phrasen. Reisen durch die europäischen Vaterländer oder wie althergebrachte Gemeinplätze durch neue zu ersetzen sind (1997) Mir auf der Spur (“On My Own Traces”, 1997) Kain . Das letzte Manuskript (posthumous novel, 2001) Awards. Theodor-Fontane-Preis (1959) Premio Scanno (1987) Premio Boccaccio Premio Lorenzo Il Magnifico. Filmography. Screenwriter. Kopfjäger von Borneo , 1936 Unter den Sternen von Capri , 1953 Labyrinth , 1959 The Dear Augustin , 1959 Sturm im Wasserglas , 1960 Man nennt es Amore , 1961 Geliebte Hochstaplerin , 1961 Die Herren , 1965 Mord und Totschlag , 1967. Actor. Sie , 1954. Directed by , with , Walter Giller, El Hakim , 1957. Directed by Rolf Thiele, with O.W. Fischer, Michael Ande, Nadja Tiller Paprika , 1959. Directed by Kurt Wilhelm with Willy Hagara, Violetta Ferrari Labyrinth , 1959. Directed by Rolf Thiele, with Nadja Tiller, , Bezaubernde Arabella , 1959. Directed by Axel von Ambesser, with Johanna von Koczian, Carlos Thompson, Hilde Hildebrand Das Riesenrad , 1961. Directed by Géza von Radványi, with , O.W. Fischer, Adrienne Gessner Destination Rome , 1962. Directed by Denys de La Patellière, with , Charles Aznavour, Monique Bert A Very Private Affair , 1962. Directed by Louis Malle, with Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni Games of Desire , 1964. Directed by Hans Albin and Peter Berneis, with , Cecilie Gelers Un mari à un prix fixe , 1965. Directed by Claude de Givray, with Anna Karina, Viva Maria! , 1965. Directed by Louis Malle, and Jean-Claude Carrière, with Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau Man on Horseback , 1969. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff, with , Anna Karina Ein Bißchen Liebe , 1974. Directed by Veith von Fürstenberg, with Brigitte Berger, Eva Maria Herzig Le beau monde , 1981. Directed by Michel Polac, with Fabrice Luchini, Judith Magre. Further reading. Valentina Glajar: After Empire: ‘Postcolonial’ Bukovina in Gregor von Rezzori’s ‘Blumen im Schnee’ (1989) . In: The German Legacy in East Central Europe as Recorded in Recent German-Language Literature. Columbia, SC: Camden House. 2004. ISBN 1-57113-256-2 Katarzyna Jaśtal, Erzählte Zeiträume. Kindheitserinnerungen aus den Randgebieten der Habsburgermonarchie von Manès Sperber, Elias Canetti und Gregor von Rezzori , Aureus, Kraków, 1998 Gerhard Köpf, Vor-Bilder . Tübinger Poetik-Vorlesung , Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen, 1999 Jacques Lajarrige, Gregor von Rezzori. Etudes réunies , Université de Rouen, Centre d’Études et de Recherches Autrichiennes, Mont-Saint-Aignan, 2003 Gilbert Ravy, “Rezzori et la France”, in Austriaca , No. 54 (2002), p. 41-58 Tetyana Basnyak. The mythologeme of East European culture in Gregor von Rezzori’s creative work. – Manuscript. Thesis for а scientific degree of Candidate of Philology. Speciality 10.01.04 – Literature of Foreign Countries. – T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. – Kiev, 2010. Notes. 1. Killy, p. 410 2. a b Kraft, p.1027–1029 3. Wiesel, in MIT Tech Talk. References. “Gregor von Rezzori at Institute as writer-in-residence; will speak Nov. 21”, in MIT Tech Talk , Vol 41, Nr 12, November 20, 1996 W. Killy (ed.), Literaturlexikon , vol. 9, Lexikon Verlag, 2001 Th. Kraft (ed.), Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur seit 1945 , Nymphenburger, Munich, 2003. Skushno. The Russian word skushno is introduced in his writings. It appears in Gregor von Rezzori’s novel Memoirs of an Anti-Semite . That novel begins in Czernowitz, close to the scene of the action in Nine Lives . Rezzori admits that skushno is a difficult word to translate but suggests ‘a spiritual void that sucks you in like a vague but intensely urgent longing’. Gregor von Rezzori (born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d’Arezzo; May 13, 1914 – April 23, 1998)