Language:
French
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Austriaca; cahiers universitaires d'information sur l'Autriche
Angaben zur Quelle:
54 (2002) 107-115
Keywords:
Rezzori, Gregor von.
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Antisemitism in literature
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German literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Comments on two books by Rezzori, "Memoiren eines Antisemiten" and "Blumen in Schnee". Discusses the illusion of the "Habsburg myth", when the Empire seemed to be a haven of peace. In the first work, a fictionalized diary, Bukovina and Rezzori's native town Czernowitz are no longer a place of happy cohabitation of various minorities and religions, but rather a place of hatred and racism. Rezzori shows the fragility and artificiality of this decomposing world. Argues that the conflicts and hatred which broke out so violently during World War I were already germinating at the end of the 19th century. After the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, antisemitism was probably the only common thread binding the people. If the apparent harmony evaporated so quickly after 1919, making place for violent nationalism, then the Habsburg monarchy was not a melting pot of cultures, languages, and religions, but a menacing and boiling crater.
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