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, a period that coincides with the twentieth-century’s ugliest years. Central to each episode is what...
Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics; Main edition (December 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590172469
ISBN-13: 978-1590172469
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 215695
Format: PDF ePub TXT ebook
reviews:Here you have a a vanished world, vanished peoples, vanished borders and countries.This is told from the perspective of a privileged kid growing-up to manhood in that period over the post WW I period.The anti-semitism is very much tongue in cheek. Th...
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