Norman Manea
Aesthetics as East Ethics
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Eastern European, Nonfiction, History
| Author: | Claudiu Turcu? | ISBN: | 9783631694824 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang | Publication: | August 5, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften | Language: | English |
| Author: | Claudiu Turcu? |
| ISBN: | 9783631694824 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Publication: | August 5, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
