Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

New York: The Viking Press, 1981. BA3 - A hardcover book SIGNED by author on the half-title page in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and some tears on the edges and corenrs, some scattered stains, scratches, and rubbing, tanning, and shelf wear. Book lighlty cocked, some bumped corners and cover edgewear, old price label adhered on the front fixed endpaper, some stains on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. This evocative, ironic, and scintillating fiction has its narrator-hero a man born during the Great War of 1914-18 that destroyed the Austro-Hunarian Empire, in which his aristocratic family had once found its perfect comfort and context. In Central Europe between the wars, at the chafing point between West and East, educated in Austria and instilled with complex loyalties to German culture, our hero perforce encounters Jews - and the stories in this five-part novel tell you of five especially significant junctures of his life with Jewish friends, lovers, and, ultimately, a Jewish wife. 8.75"x6", 287 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Gregor von Rezzori, born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d'Arezzo, was an Austrian-born, Romanian, German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays, as well as an actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic and art collector. He was fluent in German, Romanian, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, French, and English; during his life, von Rezzori was successively a citizen of Austria-Hungary, Romania, and the Soviet Union, before becoming a stateless person and spending his final years as a citizen of Austria. He married Beatrice Monti della Corte.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.