For Gregor von Rezzori, who died in 1998, Europe “committed suicide” in 1914, the year he was born. Von Rezzori’s whole oeuvre is a gay, merciless, tragic reflection on Europe’s decomposition, a ...

A forgotten author, an underestimated novel, a lost world: von Rezzori's stories give readers an idea of how racism and nationalist delusion pulled Central Europe, with its vast cultural scope, into ...

Gregor von Rezzori was born into a vanishing world. By 1918, the year he turned 4, his native Czernowitz, Bucovina (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), was no longer part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; neither ...

“I want to be her when I grow up,” said a young woman of Deborah Eisenberg. Von Rezzori is not terribly well known in the States, though his disturbing, hilarious novels, in which a flurry of activity ...

Austrian-born Gregor von Rezzori‘s 1966 autobiographical novel, “An Ermine in Czernopol,” has only been translated into English this year, but due to his relative obscurity, reviews will no doubt ...

THE HUSSAR (343 pp.)—Gregor von Rezzori—Harcourf, Brace ($4.95). In the town of Tchernopol, “to be mean is no crime.” The people of Tchernopol laugh when a coachman slashes at a blind man for getting ...

EXTRACTIn his introduction to a new edition of 'The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography' by Gregor von Rezzori, who died in 1998, JOHN BANVILLEsalutes the writer's luminous attempt to ...

Gregor von Rezzori, trans. from the German by David Dollenmayer, Joachim Neugroschel, and Marshall Yarbrough. New York Review Books, $22.95 trade paper (882p) ISBN 978-1-68137-325-6 ...

The annual Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize is awarded each spring to honor an outstanding literary translation from German into English published in the USA the previous year. The translator ...