Exiled shadow : a novel in collage / Norman Manea ; translated from the Romanian by Carla Baricz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manea, Norman, author.

Contributor:

Baricz, Carla, 1987- translator.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book

A Margellos World Republic of Letters book

Standardized Title:

Umbra exilată. English

Language:

English

Romanian

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

366 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures throughout the Nomadic Misanthrope's subsequent decades in the United States. At the center of the plot is the figure of the shadow -- the insubstantial shape of the exile, the wandering Jew, the death camp survivor, the individual under totalitarianism, the dark side of the Jungian personality -- a figure that calls into question the boundaries of the human condition.

ISBN:

9780300265729

0300265727

OCLC:

1390444255