Author : Gregor Von Rezzori
Release : 2012-01-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 065/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis An Ermine in Czernopol by : Gregor Von Rezzori
Download or read book An Ermine in Czernopol written by Gregor Von Rezzori. This book was released on 2012-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic characters, engaging us in a kaleidoscopic experience of a city where nothing is as it appears—a city of discordant voices, of wild ugliness and heartbreaking disappointment, in which, however, “laughter was everywhere, part of the air we breathed, a crackling tension in the atmosphere, always ready to erupt in showers of sparks or discharge itself in thunderous peals.”