Norman Manea: Aesthetics as East Ethics

ISBN-13: 9783631669129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 260 str.

Claudiu Turcuos; Carmen Borbely

Opis

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."

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Claudiu Turcu is Assistant Professor at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. His research interests are focused on Eastern European Literature, Cinema and Criticism. He published widely on topics such as the cultural memory of Socialism, the representation of Post-communist transition and its intellectual history or the ideology of New Romanian Cinema.