On Clowns The Dictator and the Artist |
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| Author:
| Manea, Norman |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8021-3375-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1994 |
| Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Grove Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.00 |
Book Description:
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Survivor of the Nazi camps and Ceausescu's Romania, winner of the National Book Award, recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Norman Manea, an extraordinary man of letters, "gives us a taste of something beyond the scope of even our twentieth-century imagination. . . . Manea is too profound a witness to place his gift for observation in the service of another sensualist account. . . . What matters for him is the phenomenon of an entire nation's life under this...
More DescriptionSurvivor of the Nazi camps and Ceausescu's Romania, winner of the National Book Award, recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Norman Manea, an extraordinary man of letters, "gives us a taste of something beyond the scope of even our twentieth-century imagination. . . . Manea is too profound a witness to place his gift for observation in the service of another sensualist account. . . . What matters for him is the phenomenon of an entire nation's life under this simultaneously grotesque and terrifying rule." -- The New Republic