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The black envelope / Norman Manea ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manea, Norman.
- Series:
- Margellos world republic of letters The black envelope
- Standardized Title:
- Plicul negru. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romanian fiction.
- Bucharest (Romania)--Fiction.
- Bucharest (Romania).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humor."Reading 'The Black Envelope,' one might think of the poisonous 'black milk' of Celan's 'Death Fugue' or the claustrophobic air of mounting terror in Mr. Appelfeld's 'Badenheim 1939.' . . . Mr. Manea offers striking images and insights into the recent experience of Eastern Europe."-New York Times Book Review
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- In the Kiosk Window
- It Was Late Afternoon
- A Violet Sky
- Tolea Had Learned From His Friend and Neighbor Gafton
- A Dark Dilapidated Café
- Chest Out! Head Up
- The Light in the Room
- He Had Been Awake
- Mrs. Venturia Gafton was not very audible, or visible
- Comrade Orest
- Darkened Windows
- Every Wednesday Tolea Set
- Dominic Was Not Dr. Marga's Patient
- The Professor Felt the Burden of Doubt
- No One Answered
- Morning, Afternoon, Shut Up Indoors
- This Time Dominic Was Determined to Put Little Marga in His Place
- The Day Kept to Its Usual Repertoire
- He Dozed Off, Lost Himself
- Ringing. She Has Neither the Strength Nor the Desire to Pick Up the Receiver
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613600905
- 9781280571305
- 1280571306
- 9780300188622
- 0300188625
- OCLC:
- 794488459
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