Norman Manea

The Fifth Impossibility

Essays on Exile and Language

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Explores the language and psyche of a writer forced to wander. This title answers essential questions on censorship and on linguistic roots. It unravels the relationship of the mother tongue to the difficulties of translation.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-300-17995-8
EAN: 9780300179958
Produktnummer: 12125244
Verlag: Yale University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 294 S.
Masse: H13.5 cm x B19.9 cm x D2.5 cm 374 g
Gewicht: 374
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über 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 Medicis 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.