Gregor Von Rezzori: 6 books

'Ich bitte um Verständnis. Dies ist ein Rechenschaftsbericht. Ein höchst persönliches Dokument. Dem Leser steht es frei, darin auch ein Stück Literatur in der Fortentwicklung der Konfessionen des Kollegen Jean-Jacques Rousseau zu sehen.' 'Greisengemurmel' nennt Gregor von Rezzori seine Erinnerung...

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...

Der Grandseigneur der europäischen Literatur flaniert durch sein Jahrhundert: nachdenklich, respektlos, geistreich und sehr amüsant. Wer den grandiosen Sprachkünstler Rezzori, den sanften Spötter, indiskreten Weltbürger kennt, weiß dass hier kein Geschichtsbuch anzukündigen ist. Es ist ein...

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,...

Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant volume The Death of My Brother Abel and its delirious sequel, Cain, constitute the magnum opus...

An NYRB Classics Original Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy...