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The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse. Manea's aesthetics is seen also as an Eastern European ethics, significant for the writer’s status while living and working under the Communist censorship in a totalitarian state and in the global context of World literature.



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Introduction. The Odyssey of Augustus the Skeptic – PART ONE: AESTHETICS – Chapter I. Happenings In Ruined Reality – Chapter II. Socialist Reality without Socialist Realism – Chapter III. The (Un)reality of Exile – PART TWO: EAST ETHICS – Chapter I. The Inopportune Archive – Chapter II. The Separation from Totalitarianism.

Norman Manea: Aesthetics as East Ethics

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: 25/07/2016
      ISBN13: 9783631669129, 978-3631669129
      ISBN10: 3631669127

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse. Manea's aesthetics is seen also as an Eastern European ethics, significant for the writer’s status while living and working under the Communist censorship in a totalitarian state and in the global context of World literature.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction. The Odyssey of Augustus the Skeptic – PART ONE: AESTHETICS – Chapter I. Happenings In Ruined Reality – Chapter II. Socialist Reality without Socialist Realism – Chapter III. The (Un)reality of Exile – PART TWO: EAST ETHICS – Chapter I. The Inopportune Archive – Chapter II. The Separation from Totalitarianism.

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