| Description |
xiv, 380 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
New York review books classics |
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New York Review Books classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"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 wife 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.'"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Subject |
Austria -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Boehm, Philip.
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| Added Title |
Hermelin in Tschernopol. English
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| ISBN |
1590173414 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781590173411 paperback alkaline paper |
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