"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga, "The Dreamer Awakes", was carefully edited and completed by Gao E some decades later. It continues the story of the
Memoirs of an anti-Semite: a novel in five stories
β Scribed by Rezzori, Gregor Von
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Year
- 2011;2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1590175506
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β¦ Synopsis
Five stories trace the sentimental education of a restless, complex, and contradictory man from youth to late middle age. In βSkushno,β the adolescent Gregor is disgraced and exacts revenge on the Jewish boy who is a rival for his auntβs affection. βYouthβ finds him on the run from his aristocratic family, supporting himself as a window dresser, and enmeshed in an unhappy affair with a Jewish woman he calls the βblack widow.β Vienna in the years leading up to the Anschluss is the setting for the tale of betrayal, βTroth.β And in βPravda,β the final story, an older man wanders the streets of Rome and reckons with a life held in thrall by passion and prejudice.;Skushno -- Youth -- LΓΆwinger's Rooming House -- Troth -- Pravda.
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