If you put a gun to my head and asked me to describe Gregor von Rezzori’s Abel and Cain in three sentences, this is what I would answer: Murder. Murder. Murder. First-, second-, and third-degree: ...
THE HUSSAR (343 pp.)—Gregor von Rezzori—Harcourf, Brace ($4.95). In the town of Tchernopol, “to be mean is no crime.” The people of Tchernopol laugh when a coachman slashes at a blind man for getting ...
Gregor von Rezzori, trans. from the German by David Dollenmayer, Joachim Neugroschel, and Marshall Yarbrough. New York Review Books, $22.95 trade paper (882p) ISBN 978-1-68137-325-6 ...