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Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Five stories trace the sentimental education of a restless, complex, and contradictory man from youth to late middle age. In zSkushno,y the adolescent Gregor is disgraced and exacts revenge on the Jewish boy who is a rival for his aunt's affection. zYouthy finds him on the run from his aristocratic family, supporting himself as a window dresser, and enmeshed in an unhappy affair with a Jewish woman he calls the zblack widow.y Vienna in the years leading...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Cain was Gregor von Rezzori's last book, a pendant to his monumental The Death of My Brother Abel, and in it he revisits the themes that he explored throughout his literary oeuvre: the origins of Nazism, the physical and moral ruin of Europe, the Americanization of the world, the ever-diminished role of beauty in daily life. But Cain, even as it looks back toward Rezzori's lifework, also represents an advance towards an ever more daringly improvisatory...
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