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The snows of yesteryear : portraits for an autobiography

Rezzori, Gregor von2010
Books, Manuscripts
Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old 19th century order which had shaped his parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is rendered in these pages.
Main title:
The snows of yesteryear : portraits for an autobiography / Gregor von Rezzori ; translated from the German by H.F. Broch De Rothermann.
Publisher:
London : Penguin Books, 2010.
Collation:
290 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: 1989.
ISBN:
9780141192734 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
1077473
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