{"product_id":"the-vienna-paradox-a-memoir","title":"The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Marjorie Perloff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of our finest critics and a tireless advocate for the avant-garde….To have this memoir now is a boon.\"—Andrew DuBois, \u003cem\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America's eminent literary critics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Vienna Paradox\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003eNew Directions, 2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780811215718\u003cbr\u003eMemoir, Biography, Austrian History  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":17900173381,"sku":"9780811215718","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/The-Vienna-Paradox-A-Memoir_Marjorie-Perloff.jpg?v=1591375791","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-vienna-paradox-a-memoir","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}