The Snows of Yesteryear
Portraits for an Autobiography
Five portraits of the people who raised him in Bukovina, a place whose borders and nationality changed under everyone's feet.
Five portraits, of a nursemaid, mother, father, sister and governess, drawn from a childhood in Bukovina, where the country changed nationality around the household while the household went on. Von Rezzori was born Austrian, became Romanian, and was never quite accepted as either, which is the book’s subject as much as its setting.
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Anne Applebaum
Von Rezzori’s central theme is the constant change of borders and nationality, and their impact on his childhood. He was born an “Austrian,” then became a Romanian, though the Romanians didn’t consider him a “real” Romanian. In that part of the world, the experience of such shifts was once quite common.
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