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A New York Review Books Original “The city lies somewhere in the godforsaken southeastern part of Europe and is named Czernopol,” Gregor von Rezzori writes in the prelude to this major early novel, the first part of a trilogy based on the author’s childhood that would grow to include some of... read more
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Quotes edit
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“All of these gestures set his monocled face into a circular motion like a wheel of fortune capable of producing a winning number at any moment, but which most of the time stops at a blank, only to continue undeterred onto the next spin, equally full of promise.”
Setting & Locations edit
- Trocadero
- Volksgarten
- Tescovina
- Ringplatz
- Horecea
- Sandrel Pa
- St. Parachiva
- Theophila
- Amsterdam
- Volodiak
- Titian
- India
- Goethe
First Sentence edit
There are other realities besides and beyond our own, which is the only one we know, and therefore the only one we think exists.
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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