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Oedipus at Stalingrad Paperback – December 1, 1999

by Gregor Von Rezzori (Author), H. D. Broch De Rothermann (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 289 pages
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition (December 1, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0374527393
  • ISBN-13: 978-0374527396
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars"Berlin, greatest of great cities!"
By R. M. Peterson TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on June 11, 2011
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So begins a particularly sardonic passage in OEDIPUS AT STALINGRAD. It continues as follows:

"Your clear generous sobriety, your bygone wit and your street-smarts--oh, the ballast of half-truth in the swaying vessel of your lies! Like a magic carpet, your boastful snobbery has lifted you above all reality, you, most German of German cities, exceeding all of them in your self-intoxication."

The "Oedipus" of the title is Traugott von Jassilkowsky ("Oedipus" because he has a nightmare in which his wife is transformed into Mamá and he then kills Papá). His father had been a crew chief on an estate in East Prussia, but at least he was of nobility, which allows Traugott, however uneasily, to call himself a baron and employ that precious "von". But we don't get to the Stalingrad of the title until the last pages of the novel, where Baron von Jassilkowsky (symbolic, I take it, of an entire class of Germans) "was taken from us."

For the bulk of the novel, the setting is Berlin. It begins in 1938: "A magic year. Great Germany became an even Greater Germany. The Austrians found themselves back in the womb of the Reich * * *. The Salzburg Festival was cleansed of Jews." And, oblivious to all that, Traugott continues his dogged quest to be admitted to the higher ranks of German society. He is a habitué of Charley's Bar along the Kurfürstendamm; he writes columns on men's fashion for "Gentleman's Monthly"; and he regularly has tea with Mrs. von Schrader ("born Countess Rumpfburg-Schottenfels"), who is his mentor on all matters "noblesse oblige" and (he hopes) his introduction to those who wear their "von" naturally.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsWit and Wisdom in Equal Measure
By An admirer of Saul on August 26, 2008
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This is a witty and erudite novel from a witty and erudite man.
'Oedipus' tells the story of Peter von Traugott, a would be Baron (via extremely tenuous links) patron of 'Charleys', contributor to 'Gentlemans Weekley' and his incursions into elite society. True happiness only comes to him when his blonde thoroughbread calls him a fake and a fraud.
The story is told episodically, and Rezzori covers his favourite themes of what exactly is reality-is it something we create to suit ourselves?; how events outside our control render this pointless; and how the frictions of a diverse society make up the beauty of that society.
This early novel will please Rezzori fans, newcomers may like to try 'Memoirs of an Anti Semite' or 'Snows of Yesteryear' to fully get into the Rezzori bug.
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3.0 out of 5 starsSigmund Freud in Berlin
By James W. Fonseca on September 5, 2014
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A reviewer is always on shaky in writing about what he or she expected to find in a book but failed to find, but I’ll go there anyway. This novel was published in 1994 as a translation of a German work written in the early 1950’s, right after World War II. It’s about Germany in the 1930’s so I thought it would focus on what it was about German society that led up to WW II and the Holocaust. If any of that is in here, I failed to see it. It’s a lot about German class distinctions and German nobility - does your name carry a “von” or not? We see all this through the eyes of a young man from the provinces trying to shake his quasi-peasant uprising and get ahead in fast-paced Berlin, particularly its bar and nightlife culture at the time. Did young German women really dance topless at house parties in the 1930’s? It turns out it’s mainly a lot about Freud and sex – thus the title. Our hero ends up marrying a beautiful blonde bar-hopper who would have been called a “loose woman” in that era. The author insists on calling her “the thoroughbred” throughout the novel – in dozens and dozens of references. The book makes so many obscure references to German culture that it really needs a glossary or footnotes to make many of the references to plays, songs, political figures and historical events intelligible to the non-German reader. The writing is dense and at times flamboyant; I found a 350-word sentence. Often the author talks to the reader as if we were sitting next to him in a bar. Yet it's an entertaining read.
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