false 39569383 93250 522668 1590172469 9781590172469 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175519504m/522668.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175519504s/522668.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522668.Memoirs_of_an_Anti_Semite 4.00 11 The New Yorker published Gregor von Rezzori’s “Troth” in 1969, the story created a sensation. Never before had there been such an intimate chronicle of the seductions of hate.

Subtitled a novel in five stories, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite traces the sentimental education of a restless, complex, and contradictory man from youth to late middle age. In “Skushno,” the adolescent Gregor is disgraced and exacts revenge on the Jewish boy who is a rival for his aunt’s affection. “Youth” finds him on the run from his aristocratic family, supporting himself as a window dresser, and enmeshed in an unhappy affair with a Jewish woman he calls the “black widow.” Vienna in the years leading up to the Anschluss is the setting for the tale of betrayal, “Troth.” And in “Pravda,” the final story, an older man wanders the streets of Rome and reckons with a life held in thrall by passion and prejudice.]]> 235168 4.03 79 12 1979 3 0 false Sun Jul 05 12:41:43 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 07 21:28:23 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 05 12:41:43 -0700 2009