Screen LibraryAn ermine in Czernopol /
"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...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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New York Review Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2011] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English German |
| Series: |
New York review books classics
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| 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 |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 380 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781590173411 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 1590173414 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | PT2635 |
| CLC: | I521.45 |
| Call Number: | I521.45/R467 |