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On Clowns: The Dictator and The Artist: Essays

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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 simultaneously grotesque and terrifying rule." -- The New Republic

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: January 28, 1994

ISBN: 0802133754

ISBN 13: 9780802133755

On Clowns: The Dictator and The Artist: Essays

4/5 ( ratings)

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 simultaneously grotesque and terrifying rule." -- The New Republic

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: January 28, 1994

ISBN: 0802133754

ISBN 13: 9780802133755

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