The Vienna Paradox - 9780811215718
Un libro in lingua di Marjorie Perloff edito da New Directions, 2004
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The Vienna Paradox is Marjorie Perloff's memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Vienna, her escape to America in 1938 with her upper-middle-class, highly cultured, and largely assimilated Jewish family, and her self-transformation from the German-speaking Gabriele Mintz to the English-speaking Marjorie-who also happened to be the granddaughter of Richard Schüller, the Austrian foreign minister under Chancellor Dollfuss and a special delegate to the League of Nations. Compelling as the story is, this is hardly a conventional memoir. Rather, it interweaves biographical anecdote and family history with speculations on the historical development of early 20th-century Vienna as it was experienced by her parents' generation, and how the loss of their "high" culture affected the lives of these cultivated refugees in a democratic United States that was, and remains, deeply suspicious of perceived "elitism." This is, in other words, an intellectual memoir, both elegant and heartfelt, by one of America's leading critics, a narrative in which literary and philosophical reference is as central as the personal.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Vienna Paradox
- Sottotitolo: A Memoir
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Marjorie Perloff
- Editore: New Directions
- Collana: New Directions (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '04
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : English teachers United States Biography Jewish refugees United States Biography Critics United States Biography
- Pagine: 224
- Dimensioni mm: 196 x 127 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0811215717
- EAN-13: 9780811215718