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Cain was Gregor von Rezzori s last book, a pendant to his monumental The Death of My Brother Abel, and in it he revisits the themes that he explored throughout his literary oeuvre: the origins of Nazism, the physical and moral ruin of Europe, the Americanization of the world, the ever-diminished role of beauty in daily life. But Cain, even as it looks back toward Rezzori s lifework, also represents an advance towards an ever more daringly improvisatory kind of writing. Cain has been described by MichaelKruger as not only the most modern of Rezzori s works, but as a great book, and an English translation of this work that rounds out not only the single biggest project of Rezzori s career, The Death of My Brother Abel, but his career as a whole, has longbeen overdue. David Dollenmayer, a past winner of the Goethe Institute s Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize, has taken on the job–