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The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language (Margellos World Republic of Letters) - Softcover

Manea, Norman

 
9780300179958: The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language (Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300179952 ISBN 13: 9780300179958
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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-political landscape of Eastern Europe and on the North America of today, there are astute critiques of fellow Romanian and American writers. Manea answers essential questions on censorship and on linguistic roots. He unravels the relationship of the mother tongue to the difficulties of translation. Above all, he describes what homelessness means for the writer.

These essays—many translated here for the first time—are passionate, lucid, and enriching, conveying a profound perspective on our troubled society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 departure 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 International Literary Prize (Italy), the Prix Médicis Etranger (France), and the Nelly Sachs prize (Germany). He is a member of the Berlin Academy of Art and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the French government has named him Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300179952
ISBN 13 
9780300179958
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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