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The book is a series of portraits—amused, fond, sometimes appalling—of Rezzori’s family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children’s health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance.
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- ISBN: 9781590176535
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- ISBN: 9781590176535
- File size: 2556 KB
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- English
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November 28, 1989
Born into the Austro-Hungarian aristocratic class, Rezzori saw his family reduced to nomadic refugees by WW I. Despite his parents' marital break-up and the occupation of his native duchy, Bukovina, by Rumania in 1919 and by Russia in 1940, his family lived under the illusion of pseudofeudal grandeur. In this intense group portrait, the author of the novel Memoirs of an Anti-Semite limns five key people who molded him. His overprotective, proud mother, a woman of ``lifelong rancor,'' was a mismatch for his cheerful, voluble father, an architect and hunting enthusiast set in his rigid ways and pathological prejudices. Cassandra, his nanny, a peasant woman who wore exotic garb, kept up his spirits with clownish pranks. We also meet Bunchy, his worldly German governess, and his sister with whom Rezzori had a sibling rivalry, but whose death at age 22 haunts him. -
January 1, 1991
Although they were nomadic refugees by WW I, von Rezzori's family clung to their origins as members of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. ``In this intense group portrait, von Rezzori limns five key people who molded him , '' including his overprotective mother, prejudiced father, nanny, worldly governess and a sister whose early death haunts him, PW explained.
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