An Ermine in Czernopol (New York Review Books Classics)
An Ermine in Czernopol (New York Review Books Classics) by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by Philip Boehm
English | January 10, 2012 | ISBN: 1590173414, 9781590176061 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 0.5 MB
English | January 10, 2012 | ISBN: 1590173414, 9781590176061 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 0.5 MB
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 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.”