{"product_id":"an-ermine-in-czernopol-paperback","title":"An Ermine in Czernopol - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregor Von Rezzori\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Kehlmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003ePhilip Boehm\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original\u003c\/p\u003eSet just after World War I, \u003ci\u003eAn Ermine in Czernopol\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregor von Rezzori (1914-1998) was born in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), Bukovina, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He later described his childhood in a family of declining fortunes as one \"spent among slightly mad and dislocated personalities in a period that also was mad and dislocated and filled with unrest.'' After studying at the University of Vienna, Rezzori moved to Bucharest and enlisted in the Romanian army. During World War II, he lived in Berlin, where he worked as a radio broadcaster and published his first novel. In West Germany after the war, he wrote for both radio and film and began publishing books at a rapid rate, including the four-volume Idiot's Guide to German Society. From the late 1950s on, Rezzori had parts in several French and West German films, including one directed by his friend Louis Malle. In 1967, after spending years classified as a stateless person, Rezzori settled in a fifteenth-century farmhouse outside of Florence with his wife, gallery owner Beatrice Monte\u003cbr\u003edella Corte. There he produced some of his best-known works, among them \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of an Anti-Semite\u003c\/i\u003e and the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by NYRB Classics). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilip Boehm has translated numerous works from German and Polish by writers including Ingeborg Bachmann, Franz Kafka, and Stefan Chwin. For the theater he has written plays such as \u003ci\u003eMixtitlan, The Death of Atahualpa\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReturn of the Bedbug\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received awards from the American Translators Association, the U.K. Society of Authors, the NEA, PEN America, the Austrian Ministry of Culture, the Mexican-American Fund for Culture, and the Texas Institute of Letters. Currently he is translating Herta Müller's \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Angel\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in St. Louis, where he is the artistic director of Upstream Theater. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDaniel Kehlmann is a widely translated German-Austrian novelist. He has won the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He is a prolific author of fiction and criticism, and three of his novels--\u003ci\u003eMe and Kaminski\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFame\u003c\/i\u003e--have been translated into English.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771232157984,"sku":"9781590173411","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/10213739f09ccfdc6000891a30f2048c.webp?v=1780383593","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/an-ermine-in-czernopol-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}