The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir

Marjorie Perloff

ISBN 10: 0811215717 / ISBN 13: 9780811215718

Verlag: New Directions, 2004

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir
• Verlag: New Directions
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0811215717
• ISBN-13: 9780811215718
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: FIRST THUS.
• Zustand: Like New
• Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marjorie Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Stanford University and the author and editor of over a dozen books on literary and art criticism as well as cultural history.