The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography

Von Rezzori, Gregor

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage Books

A new translation of a renowned, hilarious, and cautionary satire of life in upper-class Berlin shortly before World War II follows the social-climbing career of young Traugott von Jassilkowski as he attempts to conquer the German aristocracy.

Oedipus at Stalingrad

Literature & Fiction

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Abruptly leaving his American wife, job, and home, a European-born tycoon purchases a ticket for the famed Orient Express and, as he rides across Europe, muses on the differences between Europe as it is and Europe as he remembers it.

The Orient-Express

Contemporary

KNOPF

Describes growing up amid the privilege of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy, discussing his childhood, the family and servants who surrounded him, and the formative experiences that shaped his life

Arts & Literature

Abruptly leaving his American wife, job, and home, a European-born tycoon purchases a ticket for the famed Orient Express and, as he rides across Europe, muses on the differences between Europe as it is and Europe as he remembers it

Orient Express

Random House Value Publishing

Recounts the author's aristocratic childhood in Romania in the days before World War II

Snows of Yesteryear

Vintage

Abruptly leaving his American wife, job, and home, a European-born tycoon purchases a ticket for the famed Orient Express and, as he rides across Europe, muses on the differences between Europe as it is and Europe as he remembers it

Chatto&Windus

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 of Gregor von Rezzori’s prodigious career, the most ambitious, extravagant, outrageous, and deeply considered achievement of this wildly original and never less than provocative master of the novel. In Abel and Cain, the original book, long out of print, is reissued in a fully revised translation; Cain appears for the first time in English. The Death of My Brother Abel zigzags across the middle of the twentieth century, from the 1918 to 1968, taking in the Jazz Age, the Anschluss, the Nuremberg trials, and postwar commercialism. At the center of the book is the unnamed narrator, holed up in a Paris hotel and writing a kind of novel, a collage of sardonic and passionate set pieces about love and work, sex and writing, families and nations, and human treachery and cruelty. In Cain, that narrator is revealed as Aristide Subics, or so at least it appears, since Subics’ identity is as unstable as the fictional apparatus that contains him and the times he lived through. Questions abound: How can a man who lived in a time of lies know himself? And is it even possible to tell the story of an era of lies truthfully? Primarily set in the bombed-out, rubble- strewn Hamburg of the years just after the war, the dark confusion and deadly confrontation and of Cain and Abel, inseparable brothers, goes on.

Abel and Cain (New York Review Books Classics)

United States

NYRB Classics

Sobre el acantilado y otros relatos

Editorial Sexto Piso

Far from the Stalingrad Front, Charley's bar is a decadent world filled with eccentric souls who consider themselves heirs to the broken spirit of the times, snobs completely disinterested in the events that led to World War II. The young Traugott von Yassilkovski tries to establish himself within Nazi Berlin's high society, and so he learns how to dress, how to speak, with whom to socialize, and he even marries a blond Aryan woman, the heiress to an ammunitions fortune. This ironic satire about social climbing is an exciting psychological portrayal of a prewar Berlin already completely permeated by Nazism. Lejos del frente de Stalingrado, el bar de Charley reúne un decadente mundo repleto de seres estrafalarios que se consideran herederos del maltrecho espíritu de la época, esnobs despreocupados con los acontecimientos que desencadenan la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El joven Traugott von Yassilkovski intenta establecerse dentro de esta alta sociedad en el Berlín nazi, y para ello aprende cómo vestirse, cómo hablar, con quién socializar y hasta se casa con una mujer rubia y aria, heredera de una fortuna de municiones. Esta sátira irónica sobre el ascenso social es un trepidante retrato psicológico de un Berlín completamente permeado por el nazismo en los años anteriores a la guerra.

Edipo en Stalingrado (Narrativa Sexto Piso) (Spanish Edition)

Humor & Satire

Sexto Piso Editorial

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The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography

Oedipus at Stalingrad

The Orient-Express

The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography

Orient Express

Snows of Yesteryear

The Orient-Express

Abel and Cain (New York Review Books Classics)

Sobre el acantilado y otros relatos

Edipo en Stalingrado (Narrativa Sexto Piso) (Spanish Edition)