"The Snows Of Yesteryear"

The literary activity of the German writer of Bukovina Gregor von Rezzori in many aspects reflects the history and culture of the region. In this respect his autobiographic book "The Snow of Yesterday", dedicated to the childhood of the writer in Bukovina, is of considerable interest Via the portraiture of the family and the land of childhood it gives the idea of the conditions in which Rezzori’s character was formed, the roots of his mentality, the iife of the multiethnic society between the world wars, when Bukovina was a part of the kingdom of Romania. The author’s worldview in this piece of writing has two determinants - the old Austrian heritage of the Danube monarchy ("spiritual background") and the South-European multiculturalism of Bukovinian tradition in its ethnic, lingual, religious diversity, mirrored in Rezzori's vocabulary and style, healthy irony and self-irony, humor and sarcasm, which permeate the whole book.