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Saul Bellow - Settling My Accounts Before I Go Away: A Words and Images Interview by Norman Manea
Category: Biography
Words & Images: the Jerusalem Literary Project is a non-profit endeavor dedicated to the documentation and preservation of in-depth interviews with leading Jewish writers and thinkers of our time, invited to talk about their oeuvre, personal history, and connections between their life's work and the ...Show more
The Black Envelope by Norman Manea
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of ...Show more
The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language by Norman Manea
Category: Culture | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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 ...Show more
The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir by Norman Manea
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
At the center of The Hooligan's Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dre ...Show more
The Lair by Norman Manea
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Set in New York City in the months preceding 9/11, Norman Manea's novel introduces us to the protagonist who, like the author himself, is a Romanian professor in exile and who struggles with loneliness, dislocation, the desire to hide. Yet his difficulties and dilemmas are uniquely his own, and his ques ...Show more
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