“The Fifth Impossibility:
Essays on Exile and Language” by Norman Manea. Yale/Margellos. World Republic of Letters series, 360 pages, $15 (paperback)
The writer in exile is the general subject of this collection of novelist Norman Manea’s essays, in which he describes and analyzes the major condition of his existence. In 1941, at the age of 5, Manea was spewed out of his...
- By eric freedman
- 15 Oct 2012
- 09:34PM
Excellent article on Norman Manea, connaisseur of both Celan and Fondane. For your information, I have just edited a collection of Fondane's plays, published for the first time, in Paris by Editions Non Lieu
thank you
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