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A 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 preWorld War II Vienna, her escape to America in 1938 with her uppermiddleclass, highly cultured, and largely assimilated Jewish family, and her selftransformation from the Germanspeaking Gabriele Mintz to the Englishspeaking 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 20thcentury 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.
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