https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/03/20/review-memoir | Jazzhands FTN
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/03/20/review-memoirs-of-an-anti-semite/
New Andrew Joyce article.
Review: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite"Christopher Hitchens once wrote that the novel dealt with anti-Semitism in “the mild language of understatement.” Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, reviewing for the New York Times, wrote of Memoirs that “all the complex causes of European anti-Semitism are anatomized in these pages.”"
"It’s difficult to understand what novel these men were reading, given that within the first two pages of Memoirs we are slammed, with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, with the idea that anti-Semitism is purely a problem of malevolent personal psychology."
"The question of inter-ethnic violence, and anti-Semitism is therefore reduced to caricature by von Rezzori, who roots something like a pogrom in the fantasies of the easily duped and sexually frustrated. The reality of Romanian anti-Semitism in the interwar period was in fact inextricably bound up with socio-economic competition."
