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The fifth impossibility : essays on exile and language /

Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of essays, he explores the language and psyche of the exiled writer. Among pieces on the cultural-politi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manea, Norman
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2012.
Colección:Margellos world republic of letters book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I
  • Exile
  • PART II: From One Shore to Another
  • A Friend in Berlin
  • Empty Theaters?
  • Writers and the Great Beast
  • The Incompatibilities
  • On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
  • Happy Guilt
  • Blasphemy and Carnival
  • Cioran
  • Through Romanian Eyes: A Half Century of the NRF in Bucharest
  • Berenger at Bard
  • Made in Romania
  • An Exile on September 11 and After
  • The Walser Debate
  • Beyond the Mountains
  • Some Thoughts on Saul Bellow
  • A Stroll with Nathan
  • The Exiled Language
  • Casa MinimaMonuments of Shame: Twenty Years after the Berlin Wall
  • Ephemeridae
  • The Silence of the Eastern Bloc
  • The Cuban Shipwreck
  • A Lasting Poison
  • Crime and Punishment, Refugee Style
  • Revolutionary Shadows
  • Against Simplification
  • Another Genealogy
  • Rich People of the World, Unite!
  • The Dada Capital of Exiles
  • PART III
  • The Fifth Impossibility
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
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