{"product_id":"the-vienna-paradox-a-memoir-0811215717","title":"The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0811215717\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Perloff, Marjorie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America's eminent literary critics. The Vienna Paradox 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 Marjoriewho also happened to be the granddaughter of Richard Schller, 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","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52227526230304,"sku":"NEW0811215717","price":23.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61NyQlwZ6YL.jpg?v=1787341053","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-vienna-paradox-a-memoir-0811215717","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}