Latest Review: "The Ermine in Czernopol" by Gregor Von Rezzori
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Lily Ye on this week’s Read This Next book, The Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor Von Rezzori. This novel is translated by Philip Boehm and forthcoming from New York Review Books. This is the first book in the Von Rezzori trilogy, which also includes The Snows of ...
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The Ermine of Czernopol
The Ermine of Czernopol is the first of Gregor von Rezzori’s semi-autobiographical novels about growing up in what was Austria-Hungary. In it, childhood is the conduit through which we must understand everything. The thing about a being a child is an unorthodox and oftentimes uncanny mode of perception, due to the foreign ...
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An Interview with Gregor Von Rezzori [Read This Next]
As part of this week’s Read This Next focus on Gregor Von Rezzori’s An Ermine in Czernopol, we dug up this interview with Von Rezzori that appeared in BOMB magazine way back in 1988. Bruce Wolmer: I’m tempted to begin by asking the question interviewers on French TV like to pose: “Gregor von Rezzori, _qui ...
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The Ermine of Czernopol by Gregor Von Rezzori [Read This Next]
This week’s Read This Next selection is The Ermine of Czernopol, the first in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical works by Gregor von Rezzori (The Snows of Yesteryear, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite), all of which are available from New York Review Books. We chose this book because of its unique and revealing perspective: von ...
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Interview with Alberto Moravia [Read This Next]
To finish off this week’s Read This Next feature on Alberto Moravia’s Two Friends, here’s an interview from the Paris Review with the man himself: Interviewer: You write, then—? Moravia: I write simply to amuse myself; I write to entertain others and—and, well, to express myself. One has ...
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Interview with Marina Harss [Read This Next]
As part of this week’s Read This Next feature on Alberto Moravia’s Two Friends, we just posted an interview with translator Marina Harss conducted by U of R translation grad student (and fellow soccer fan) Acacia O’Connor. Here’s an excerpt: Acacia O’Connor: Two Friends is a unique text — ...
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Two Friends by Alberto Moravia [Read This Next]
This week’s Read This Next title is Two Friends by Alberto Moravia, a posthumously published set of related novellas that’s translated from the Italian by Marina Harss and forthcoming from Other Press. The extended preview is available now and we’ll be posting a review and interview later this week. I ...
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