Норман Маня: Compulsory Happiness
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Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en
In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of
«Norman Manea s four novellas, written during the later Ceausescu years, offer a comparable contrast to other Eastern European dissident writing. Instead of the energetic irony, the ebullient absurdism, the sharp-eyed wit, we find a dreamy disconnection, a voice that shock has lowered, an air of sweetness driven mad.» — Richard Eder,
«Mr. Manea s voice is radically new, and we are blessedly awakened and alerted by the demand his fiction makes on our understanding.» — Lore Segal,