The lair / Norman Manea ; translated from the Romanian by Oana Sanziana Marian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manea, Norman.

Contributor:

Marian, Oana Sânziana.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters

Standardized Title:

Vizuina. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanian fiction.

Romanian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger to exile, he mines its complexities and disorientations in this extraordinarily compelling novel, The Lair. Exile in the motherland and away from it is the shared plight of his protagonists. Nowhere at home, they move through their lives in a continuous, ever-elusive quest for national and individual identity. Manea's characters seek a place and a voice in America, only to discover that the shackles of their native totalitarian and nationalist ideologies are impossible to break.Manea's themes and narrative approach are intricate: his style fluctuates in correspondence with the instability of his characters' lives, his story is encased within an elaborate network of allusions and paradoxes. Yet in the midst of the novel's overriding disorientation, the author establishes intersections and uncovers the universal. Through the predicaments of his perpetual outsiders, he offers a poignant assessment of the conflicts of the individual in the age of globalization. He writes with unmatched intensity and a unique sensitivity to the human tragicomedy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786613601070

9781280571473

1280571470

9780300183467

0300183461

OCLC:

785374134