{"product_id":"an-ermine-in-czernopol-isbn-9781590173411","title":"An Ermine in Czernopol","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original\u003c\/p\u003eSet just after World War I, \u003ci\u003eAn Ermine in Czernopol\u003c\/i\u003e 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 with a host of fantastic characters, engaging us in a kaleidoscopic experience of a city where nothing is as it appears—a city of discordant voices, of wild ugliness and heartbreaking disappointment, in which, however, “laughter was everywhere, part of the air we breathed, a crackling tension in the atmosphere, always ready to erupt in showers of sparks or discharge itself in thunderous peals.”\u003cp\u003e\".. Gregor von Rezzori's mid-20th-century masterpiece….has been likened by the novelist John Banville to both \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, although a more instructive comparison might be to the European novels of Vladimir Nabokov…in a luminous new translation by Philip Boehm…\" - John Wray, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The last great remembrancer of a region that has vanished from the map and mind  of Europe.\" --Michael Ignatieff, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This wonderful book--literally, a book full of wonders--which lived for too long in shadow, has been brought fully to light by Philip Boehm's lustrous new translation. \u003ci\u003eAn Ermine of Czernopol\u003c\/i\u003e may at last take its place on the shelf alongside \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- John Banville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The novelist and  memoirist Gregor von Rezzori was one of the last and most redoubtable links with  a Mid-to-Eastern European world, rich in history and character, complex in nationality  and ethnic allegiance, that has gone forever, devoured or dispersed through successive  waves of rapaciously competitive nationalism…von Rezzori’s flair for language which  he cultivated almost like a collector, with the occasional, carefully planted esoteric  word that matched John Updike’s love for the look and the sound of rare words.” –\u003ci\u003eThe  Independent\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Any reader of European literature who has not read Gregor Von Rezzori has commited the unthinkable. This is the rare writer who writes with unmatched beauty and skill while celebrating the joys of life.\" --Gary Shteyngart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gregor von Rezzori’s novels…have won him many admirers and  a reputation as a writer of brilliance and of highest ambition. He has been likened  by critics both there and in Europe to Mann, Grass, and Musil.” –\u003ci\u003eBOMB magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A  philosophical novel on the nature of reality…nearly always intellectual exciting.  Author von Rezzori writes with aphoristic flair and a hint of childlike wonder. He  has produced a flashing novel of ideas, a species that ranks in rarity with the Tasmanian  wolf and the Komodo dragon.” –\u003ci\u003eTIME magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“To his admirers the silver-haired citizen  of the world is a superb hewer of mocking phrases, a master of erudite allegory that  springs from this quasi-aristo youth in the defunct Austro-Hungarian empire.” –\u003ci\u003eThe  Toronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This beautiful, impressive early novel by von Rezzori (\u003ci\u003eThe Snows of Yesteryear\u003c\/i\u003e), generously translated by Boehm, takes place in the fictional town of Czernopol...von Rezzori's greatest achievements are his meditations on the nature of childhood, especially 'that inviolable majesty of the child' and its gradual erosion as the once fascinating, mysterious world begins to reveal itself as a place of 'crude banality,' which ceases to inspire any longing. In its near-mythical treatment of childhood, the book recalls Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eSpeak Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, or Rebecca West's \u003ci\u003eThe Fountain Overflows\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLost worlds and cities emerge from under von Rezzori’s pen, simultaneously beautifully remembered and richly imagined. Only the truly great writers can do that.”\u003cbr\u003e—Aleksandar Hemon\u003c\/p\u003eGregor von Rezzori (1914–1998) was born in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), Bukovina, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He later described his childhood in a family of declining fortunes as one “spent among slightly mad and dislocated personalities in a period that also was mad and dislocated and filled with unrest.’’ After studying at the University of Vienna, Rezzori moved to Bucharest and enlisted in the Romanian army. During World War II , he lived in Berlin, where he worked as a radio broadcaster and published his first novel. In West Germany after the war, he wrote for both radio and film and began publishing books at a rapid rate, including the four-volume Idiot’s Guide to German Society. From the late 1950s on, Rezzori had parts in several French and West German films, including one directed by his friend Louis Malle. In 1967, after spending years classified as a stateless person, Rezzori settled in a fifteenth-century farmhouse outside of Florence with his wife, gallery owner Beatrice Monte\u003cbr\u003edella Corte. There he produced some of his best-known works, among them \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of an Anti-Semite\u003c\/i\u003e and the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by NYRB Classics).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Boehm has translated numerous works from German and Polish by writers including Ingeborg Bachmann, Franz Kafka, and Stefan Chwin. For the theater he has written plays such as \u003ci\u003eMixtitlan, The Death of Atahualpa\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReturn of the Bedbug\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received awards from the American Translators Association, the U.K. Society of Authors, the NEA , PEN America, the Austrian Ministry of Culture, the Mexican-American Fund for Culture, and the Texas Institute of Letters. Currently he is translating Herta Müller’s \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Angel\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in St. Louis, where he is the artistic director of Upstream Theater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Kehlmann is a widely translated German-Austrian novelist. He has won the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He is a prolific author of fiction and criticism, and three of his novels—\u003ci\u003eMe and Kaminski\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFame\u003c\/i\u003e—have been translated into English.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300317122789,"sku":"NP9781590173411","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590173411.jpg?v=1767721507","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/an-ermine-in-czernopol-isbn-9781590173411","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}