The Fifth Impossibility
Essays on Exile and Language
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 2012
256 pages
978-0-300-18487-7 (ISBN)
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Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. A novelist and essayist, he first published in Communist Romania in the 1960s, producing a string of socially critical works that led to his expulsion in 1986. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages, and he has received many important cultural and literary prizes, including the MacArthur Fellowship (U.S.), the Nonino Prize (Italy), and the Légion d'honneur (France). The author lives in New York City.
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Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. A novelist and essayist, he first published in Communist Romania in the 1960s, producing a string of socially critical works that led to his expulsion in 1986. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages, and he has received many important cultural and literary prizes, including the MacArthur Fellowship (U.S.), the Nonino Prize (Italy), and the Légion d'honneur (France). The author lives in New York City.
Content
- 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 Minima
- Monuments 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
- R
- S
- T
- U
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- W
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