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The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography

by Gregor von Rezzori

4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 · rating details · 210 ratings · 26 reviews

The Snows Of Yesteryear is an uncompromising account of Gregor von Rezzori's aristocratic childhood in Romania in the days before World War II.

Hardcover , 290 pages

Published December 3rd 1989 by Knopf (first published 1989)

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Nov 28, 2014 Declan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Shelves: eastern-europe , nyrb , romania

Beginning a book is like entering someone's house for the first time. You might feel a little uncomfortable and unsure about your host; your initial apprehension may develop into a sense of ease and reassurance or, barely across the threshold, you might feel that you are about to have a experience you will savour, with someone whose every word and action is beguiling.

I was half way through the prelude to the first chapter of'The Snows of Yesteryear' when I felt completely beguiled. That feeling ...more

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Mar 06, 2012 Chuck LoPresti rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I try to never say "Proustian" in a review because it really means "hey, I've read Proust" which is a laudable achievement worthy of public proclamation but a generally vague and misleading element in a literary review. Rezzori's Snows... is a look back, look for and look out for what are memories are and what we let them do to us - that's Proust-like. His language/prose is remarkably erudite and complex but never desultory - that's Proust-like too. Rezzori draws with words, makes music with wor ...more

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Apr 15, 2009 Geoff rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Essentially this book is a series of portraits of Rezzori's family and two most intimate nurses/governesses, and their lives during the two World Wars and the time in between, when their home city of Czernowitz was caught in the post-collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when it was handed over (and over again) between Romanian, German, and Russian rule. The people of the Bukovina were basically in the hands of whatever army happened to be roaming through the land at the time, and eventually Essentially this book is a series of portraits of Rezzori's family and two most intimate nurses/governesses, and their lives during the two World Wars and the time in between, when their home city of Czernowitz was caught in the post-collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when it was handed over (and over again) between Romanian, German, and Russian rule. The people of the Bukovina were basically in the hands of whatever army happened to be roaming through the land at the time, and eventually the whole identity of the region seemingly vanished. There are many parallels throughout the story of the dissipation of the empire and the disintegration of the family, but what this book did so well, and so brilliantly, was elucidate that strange, mythological period of adolescence and early childhood, when we, at the time, are experiencing such vivid and lasting impressions but do not yet have the faculty to express what they mean, even to ourselves, while all the while our individuality and personality are being formed by these same occurences. One can't help but draw the comparison of lost empire/lost childhood, but there is more going on here than that. A melancholy nostalgia, a dry and absurd humor, intimate emotional observation, and a sense of something irrevocable that we all seem to experience when looking back at our own lives are what this book succeeds in communicating. Perhaps only Speak, Memory has come so close to illustrating those twilight years. But Rezzori's prose is more centered in the emotional, while Nabokov is solidly discoursing through the intellect. As far as memoirs of childhood go, I can't say yet which I prefer. But if you enjoyed Speak, Memory definitely give this a go.

Some favorite parts: Cassandra making the snow flowers (which inevitably dissolve in time); the image and detail of the sinking toy ship (which is referenced throughout); his father dragging a dead, bloody boar through his mother's snobby, aristocratic social gatherings; all the descriptions of the gardens, the roads into the wilderness, the ecstatic recollection of the weather and natural surroundings of the Bukovina and how that was reflected in the people. There is so much here to sift through, I will certainly reread this at some point.

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Sep 14, 2014 James rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Among the many memoirs I have read this is one of the most beautiful and meaningful. Gregor Von Rezzori has uncanny ability to create beautiful metaphors that convey a sense of both place and history. It is this that sets his memoir apart from the others. The memoir is subtitled "portraits for an autobiography". Thus Von Rezzori structures the memoir around the members of his family with chapters titled simply "The Mother", "The Father", and "The Sister". These are his portraits and it is only w Among the many memoirs I have read this is one of the most beautiful and meaningful. Gregor Von Rezzori has uncanny ability to create beautiful metaphors that convey a sense of both place and history. It is this that sets his memoir apart from the others. The memoir is subtitled "portraits for an autobiography". Thus Von Rezzori structures the memoir around the members of his family with chapters titled simply "The Mother", "The Father", and "The Sister". These are his portraits and it is only when he wrote two chapters about people close to him as family, but not related, that he give them names, "Cassandra" and "Bunchy"; these being the childhood appellations by which they were known. The result of this organization by family portrait is a chronological mosaic made up of vignettes melded together by his memory.

The memoir ends with the disappearance of his beloved homeland with the onset of the second world war. Stemming from the aftermath of the Great War this provides a historical context for his personal story. Thus the themes of the memoir are under girded with the sense of a world destroyed, collapsed, and faded into an age that becomes his "yesteryear". Von Rezzori describes them metaphorically in the introduction to "The Mother":
"The mermaid is blind; her world has turned to rubbish. The chest contains the tinsel of a forgotten carnival of long ago. And the mermaid herself is rotting."(p 55)
The expectations that were so vivid and bold when he was young become the "golden mists" of the past. Yet amidst this story of decline there is much humor and lovely details, for the author shared the Rabelaisian exuberance of moments with his father, the pride taken in learning how to hunt, and the sweet, if rare, moments when his Mother showered him with all the love that she had hidden from him through her habitual neglect of her family. He also shares intimate moments with his sister, describing their similarities and differences: "I envied her for being our father's favorite; she despised the blind infatuation my mother showed me, suffered maternal injustices with mute pride and devalued he mother's preference in my own eyes. She was a graceful girl, when I was a small oaf; she was a precociously exemplary young lady whil I was still a lout." (p 204)

The memoir ends with a short epilogue where, among other things, the adult Gregor Von Rezzori (who become an accomplished journalist, media personality, and author) shares his personal return to his birthplace of Czernowitz and found that "it wasn't the Czernowitz whose vision I had carried in me for half a century". He found like so many who grow up and leave their home of birth that you literally cannot go home again for the place you left is different than the myth your mind has created and hidden by the mists of time. The story of this memoir is ultimately one of dissolution of both an idea and an ideal. It is memorable for the beauty and love that was experienced by this often lonely man. It is this that shines through and creates a glowing memoir of a yesterday that will remain forever impressed upon all who read it. ...more

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Sep 22, 2013 Lorenzo Berardi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: austrian , ukrainian , 2013 , romanian , a-my-english-library

There are plenty of good books which you gulp down and then forget. And there are those rare excellent books which are made and meant to stay so that you choose to take your time to read them. 'The Snows of Yesteryear' belongs to the latter.

I'm not an avid reader of self biographies, but I'm always glad to read one of them when the name of the writer justifies it which is to say when the author did something in literature. (ok, I reckon how 'Open' by Andre Agassi doesn't quite belong here).

Now, There are plenty of good books which you gulp down and then forget. And there are those rare excellent books which are made and meant to stay so that you choose to take your time to read them. 'The Snows of Yesteryear' belongs to the latter.

I'm not an avid reader of self biographies, but I'm always glad to read one of them when the name of the writer justifies it which is to say when the author did something in literature. (ok, I reckon how 'Open' by Andre Agassi doesn't quite belong here).

Now, 'Speak Memory' by Vladimir Nabokov and Witold Gombrowicz's 'Polish Memories' are both superb books. On the same subject, I've reasons to believe that I will enjoy those three self-biographic volumes by Canetti as soon as I have enough time to dig into them.

The thing is, Gregor von Rezzori did a better job than Nabokov and Gombrowicz in writing about his childhood. Mark my words.

One of the chief reasons why I liked 'The Snows of Yesteryear' so much is that von Rezzori doesn't focus on himself as much as Nabokov (quite obviously) and Gombrowicz did. That and the fact that the author chose to select his memories very carefully thus giving the book a very distinctive frame were beautiful writing goes straight to the point and every unexpected detour does lead to a specific episode.

'The Snows of Yesteryear' is shaped by people, spiced up by places and smells of history.
Von Rezzori here baked a delicious madeleine which brings back to life the five most important characters of his childhood: his mother, father, sister, wet nurse and governess.

Whereas it's the opening poignant lines of the chapter dedicated to his sister which cannot left anyone untouched, I believe that von Rezzori is particularly masterful when writing about his 'savage' wet nurse, Cassandra, and on his teacher/governess, Mrs Strauss - also known as Bunchy.

There you have an oddity. The emotional detachment von Rezzori felt for his long bygone mother and father when he wrote this book as an elderly man is less noticeable when the author remembers about Cassandra and Bunchy. As a matter of fact these two women did have a deeper influence on the future novelist's early life than his parents who were either overworried about him or hopelessly distant.

At a first glance, Gregor von Rezzori certainly had a privileged childhood. Son of a rich man of distant Italian origins but who praised his Germanness and a proud servant of a collapsing Habsburg Empire, von Rezzori grew up in a world of country houses, city mansions and holidays in spa towns or by the Carinthian lakes. His mum was a fashionable woman ruling over a half dozen servants while his father was a dedicated hunter who enjoyed conversating in Latin (and, accidentally, despised the Jews).

And yet, the von Rezzoris didn't fit the usual Belle Epoque picture of an uptown bourgeois Austro-Hungarian family giving parties, going to the opera, blaming the Versailles Treaty and - alas - flirting with antisemitism.
Living in multicultural but troubled Bukovina, the family was forced to leave their home and belongings behind more than once during young Gregor's childhood. Suffice is to say that in the short span of thirty years, von Rezzori's hometown of Czernowitz passed from Austria to Romania to Soviet Union only to become an Ukrainian city back in 1991 under the current name of Chernivtsi.

'The Snows of Yesteryear' is much more than family history and an elderly novelist reminiscing on his childhood, it's a document of extraordinary importance to understand why a single town could bear six different names: Czernowitz, Chernivtsi, Chernovtsy, Cernauti, Czerniowce and Czernopol. ...more

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Sep 01, 2015 Rambling Reader rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Apr 18, 2015 Tony rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR. (1989). Gregor Von Rezzori. ****.
A friend of mine recommended this book. It’s by an author I never heard of, but will follow up and seek out more of his titles. When you look at his name, you can’t tell where he is from – other than somewhere in Europe. ‘Gregor’ might be Russian; ‘Von’ usually comes from Germany; ‘Rezzori’ smacks of Italy. When you read this book, you will discover that those regions all played a part in the author’s life. The book itself is a masterful ...more

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Mar 24, 2009 Christopher rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My friend Louisa recommended The Snows of Yesteryear over a bowl of steaming pork belly ramen in the East Village. Von Rezzori's memoir is Japanese comfort food for the winter-bound soul. He writes about a town in the Bukovina area of what was once the Austrian Empire, briefly under Romanian control, then Russian occupation, and now part of the Ukraine.

Rezzori was an expat in his own home. a man without the possibility of national identity.

In part the book is a social comedy. Portraying the fu ...more

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Jan 16, 2010 Mimi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The title drew me in, then I highly enjoyed this book, a memoir about Rezzori growing up in Berkovina, with a polyglot of minorities and how the area changed from 1914 until after WWII. He spends a long section each on the people who he felt raised him: his early nanny, his mother & father (who were mismatched and wildly neurotic) , a sister and a governess/tutor. He is the author of "Memoirs of an Anti-semite" which I haven't read, but will now.

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Dec 12, 2011 Dan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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gregor von rezzori is creeping his way to the top of my most-exciting-authors list. he has an astounding ability to arrange his thoughts with insight and poetry, and he manages to do so while remaining a few paces away from the threshold of self-indulgence and "purple prose."

the snows of yesteryear (that's blumen im schnee in german, or "flowers in the snow") is more directly autobiographical than his also amazing memoirs of an anti-semite , but the two make a perfect pair in the long run. with e gregor von rezzori is creeping his way to the top of my most-exciting-authors list. he has an astounding ability to arrange his thoughts with insight and poetry, and he manages to do so while remaining a few paces away from the threshold of self-indulgence and "purple prose."

the snows of yesteryear (that's blumen im schnee in german, or "flowers in the snow") is more directly autobiographical than his also amazing memoirs of an anti-semite , but the two make a perfect pair in the long run. with even deeper intimacy, snows examines the peculiar, multifaceted personalities that populated his youth in czernowitz, which during his lifetime began as an outpost of the austria-hungarian empire, then became part of romania, was eventually claimed by the soviet union and, following its collapse, is now currently part of the ukraine. rezzori's precarious upbringing as the pseudo-aristocratic child of a dying empire filled his head with all sorts of contradictory (and often hilarious) prejudices, which he examines with merciless scrutiny and sensitivity.

the book is split into five sections, each devoted to a different figure from his life. three are devoted to direct members of his family (mother, father and sister), and two involve servants. the first chapter, devoted to his servant cassandra, is probably the memoir's highlight, because it sets the stage for his various obsessions (race, class, cultural idiosyncrasies, child care, superstition) and offers him the strongest figure through which to unravel the chauvinism at the root of his own psychological development. cassandra is described in terms that would never be used in any such inquiry today ("simian," for example), and rezzori's assessment of the cultural sphere in czerowitz is often quite curmudgeonly. but his warts-and-all approach also avoids a lot of the obvious sentimentality implied by the memoir form (and the book's awkwardly-translated title, while we're at it). rezzori's tough love is so insistently introspective that his cruelest thoughts are often circular in form. as soon as he shares them, he immediately pivots to the roots of his own biases - and applies the same scalpel to his own life story. surprisingly enough, this approach is never cool or detached. in the case of cassandra, she emerges as a character of great strength without confirming to the "magical" stereotypes of idealized otherness. ...more

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Feb 08, 2013 M. Sarki rated it 3 of 5 stars

Four stars is more accurate as the book was very well written. But I have so many other favorites it wouldn't be fair to give it more than three that basically says "I liked it". My problem with the book was my own unfamiliarity with the writer and his works and the fact that world history is not something I am too concerned with even in light of its importance. I do enjoy personal history which there was plenty of in this book, but the wars and politics of the time probably bother me more than ...more

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Jun 21, 2013 Andrew added it · review of another edition

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My continuing obsession with pre-WWII Mitteleuropa culture has landed me at the doorstep of Herr Gregor von Rezzori (obviously). The Snows of Yesteryear is by no means a masterpiece, but it is an incredibly charming, witty, enlightening memoir describing the sort of lost world characterized by children with flaxen curls and sailor suits, fascist uncles and communist daughters, beery Germans and oniony Romanians and gloomy Hasidim, daring youthful romances, saber-scarred cheeks, courtly love, all ...more

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Jul 16, 2014 Christopher rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Gregor von Rezzori was born in 1913, and his childhood saw his hometown of Czenowitz pass from Austro-Hungary to Romania in the wake of World War I. This region, Bucovina, which is now split between Romania and Ukraine, was host to a remarkable diversity: Germans, Ruthenians (Rusyns), Romanians, (Yiddish-speaking) Jews, Poles, Russians and Armenians lived side by side in Czernowitz. In his memoir THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR (originally published in German as Blumen im Schnee), Rezzori depicts the ch Gregor von Rezzori was born in 1913, and his childhood saw his hometown of Czenowitz pass from Austro-Hungary to Romania in the wake of World War I. This region, Bucovina, which is now split between Romania and Ukraine, was host to a remarkable diversity: Germans, Ruthenians (Rusyns), Romanians, (Yiddish-speaking) Jews, Poles, Russians and Armenians lived side by side in Czernowitz. In his memoir THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR (originally published in German as Blumen im Schnee), Rezzori depicts the changing ethnic and political landscape of the town until roughly the mid-1940s, with reminisces that continue into the post-war era and an epilogue from 1989 seeing him return to Czernowitz after five decades away.

But this is mainly a family chronicle. Rezzori divides the book into five parts focusing on a particular member of his household. His nanny Cassandra was illiterate and brutish, hired out of some isolated place in the Carpathians. His mother is remembered as overprotective and more than a little neurotic, tragically trapped in a loveless relatioship with Rezzori's father. That father was obsessed with hunting, using his business trips as a government functionary to bag all kinds of animals in the vastness of the Carpathians. His dislike for the Jews was great, but he stayed forever faithful to Austro-Hungarian values and was aghast at the rise of the Nazis and German agression. His sister, four years old than him and a perennial but beloved rival, died in young adulthood after a long illness. Finally, his governess Ms. Lina Strauss (nicknamed "Bunchy" in a German-language pun) brought a cosmopolitan flair to his home.

Rezzori mentions Marcel Proust early on in this book, but even if he didn't, many readers would think of Proust nonetheless. Rezzori has the same passion for introspection on the most mundane issues of childhood. I must admit, his reveries and his psychological analyses of his family do tend to drag, especially in the last third or so of the book. I must admit to skimming for long passages about his sister and Bunchy.

However, as a source of first-hand information on the dying of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a cosmopolitan Bucovina that is now gone forever, this is a valuable book, and however frustrating its longwindedness might be, I am very glad I read it. ...more

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Jan 18, 2014 Bookaholic added it · review of another edition

La Editura Humanitas a apărut la începutul acestui an un volum de memorii al lui Gregor von Rezzori, intitulat Zăpezile de altădată. Titlu intertextual trimite la faimoasa întrebare pe care François Villon și-o tot pune în poemul Ballade des dames du temps jadis, poem al nostalgiei trecutului și al îndepărtării de un prezent mizer și nedemn.

Titlul, prin tot ceea ce sugerează el, nu este dezmințit de cele 300 de pagini de amintiri despre cele cinci persoane care i-au marcat viața autorului: doica ...more

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May 02, 2009 Heather Roberts rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

rezorri tenderly, beautifully, and with the most amazing descriptive prose tells his life experiences through the stories of the five most important people in his life. his insights are full of feeling, history, and subtle humor. his perception regarding intimate details of character and thought is incredibly keen.

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Apr 12, 2014 Tobias rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A fantastic memoir of a lost world, namely the multiethnic world that existed between Prussia, Austria, and Russia and which came to an end between the wars. Also a touching, and sad family memoir, with unsparing portraits of his parents, his sister, and himself. Dragged a bit at times, otherwise would have been a full five stars.

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Feb 11, 2014 Brad rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Oct 28, 2013 Gina Connolly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Quite simply one of the best books I have ever read. The writing is sublime, erudite and hugely readable. The memoir is set on the borders of the old Austro Hungarian empire as it crumbles after the first world war, leaving Rezzori and his family stranded in the new Roumania. This former Austrian aristocratic family lose their position and security as the second world war looms. The young Rezzori is better able to adapt than are his parents but ultimately he leaves whilst they stay on with no wh ...more

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Jan 16, 2014 Paulo Migliacci rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The model ship story would suffice to make this a great book. But there is plenty more. The idea of a Ruritanian History book by a guy who was almost, but not quite, Ruritanian is enticing, and very well executed here. Zenda is both less and more of a joke seen from within. 'Exotic' lands that once flourished outside the bounds of modern nationality - let's say Sicily in the Friedrich II Hohenstauffen era - are often deployed to portray an Utopian past; in Bukovina's case one destroyed by modern ...more

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Aug 09, 2014 Paul Fulcher rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A beautifully written evocation of what is something of a lost world - the remnants of the Austro-Hungarian empire between the two world wars.

There are some excellent reviews on here - e.g. Declan's - that do the book much more justice than I can.

Why not 5 stars? Well firstly I set the bar high on that award. But secondly, as a matter of personal taste, I prefer fiction to non-fiction, albeit that this is my favourite type of autobiographical non-fiction, told by a fiction writer so that it read ...more

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Dec 01, 2014 Madhuri rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A beautiful memoir and a remarkable meditation on memory. Even though Rezzori describes a less than perfect childhood life, the reminiscing has a tinge of lost Eden tone to it. He draws portraits of a few people dear to him in his childhood, and like Knausgaard is brutal in his honesty at some points. But other than that, this is a memoir far removed from Knausgaard's autobiography and is closer to Proust's enchanted story of growing up.

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Nov 18, 2010 Tuck rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

wonderful autobiography of growing up and old in eastern and western europe. born in the bukovina (austo-hungro empire)in what? 1914, which changed to Romania, which changed to ukraine. this is a reprint of nyrb 2010, originally in german from 1989. goes well with orringer's "invisible bridge" and Patrick fermor's "a time of gifts". intro by john banville.

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Aug 09, 2013 Kurishin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Von Rezzori's character analysis of his childhood authority figures is unlike anything I've previously read. Imagery is also outstanding. The character development is such that I remember the details after a year.

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Mar 26, 2014 Bettie☯ marked it as maybe · review of another edition

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Nov 24, 2010 Laura McNeal rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is one of my favorite memoirs.

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Gregor von Rezzori was born in 1914 in Chernivtsi in the Bukovina, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of Ukraine. In an extraordinarily peripatetic life von Rezzori was succesively an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and Soviet citizen and then, following a period of being stateless, an Austrian citizen. The great theme of his work was the multi-ethnic, multi-lingual world in which he ...more

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