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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452102203321

Autore

Manea Norman

Titolo

The fifth impossibility [[electronic resource] ] : essays on exile and language / / Norman Manea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-57116-0

9786613600769

0-300-18487-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Margellos world republic of letters

Disciplina

859.434

Soggetti

Exiles

Immigrants - Language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Exile -- 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 Dada Capital Of Exiles -- The Fifth Impossibility -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.