The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language by Manea, Norman

The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300179958)

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The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language by Manea, Norman

The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language

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The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language by Manea, Norman

The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language

$16.50
Format: Paperback
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A passionate exploration of language, censorship, and exile by the celebrated Romanian writer Norman Manea

"Manea demonstrates that he is an indispensable analyst of what it means to be a Romanian, and a Romanian Jew, and a writer, under fascism and communism."--David Mikics, New Republic

Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of World War II, 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.

Author: Norman Manea
ISBN-10: 0300179952
ISBN-13: 9780300179958
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2012
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/11/2012
Choice 11/01/2012
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Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. Deported from his native Romania to a Ukrainian concentration camp during World War Two, he was again forced to leave Romania in 1986, no longer safe under an intolerant Communist dictatorship. Since arriving in the West he has received many important awards, including, in 2016, Romania's highest distinction, the the Presidential Order "The Romanian Star" in the highest level, of Great Officer. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City.

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