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Bezig met laden... De terugkeer van de hooligan (2003)door Norman Manea
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. "La Europa perdida de Norman Manea", A. Muñoz Molina, El País 15.10.2015: https://elpais.com/diario/2005/10/15/opinion/1129327206_850215.html Manea's memoir makes for very dense reading but is a fascinating account of a Jewish Romanian writer who survived his family's deportation during WWII to the concentration camps of Transnistria only to live through the Romania's Stalinist 1950s and the horrors of Nicolae Ceaușescu's totalitarian reign before eventually emigrating to the United States. Despite the many hardships encountered in his home country, Manea's experience abroad has been one of an exile from his language. As Carla Baricz, explains in the LA Review of Books, "What makes The Hooligan’s Return such a unique and celebrated memoir is that it rejects its own form in a way that invokes the complexities of the genre. The book does not read like biography. The 'facts' act only as anchoring points to a larger theme: Manea’s relationship to his mother tongue, and the way a writer, especially one in exile, invents him/herself out of language. Indeed, the memoir is as much about the necessity and the cost of retelling personal narratives as it is about the past it evokes. The narrative structure of The Hooligan’s Return seeks various answers to this dilemma." As such The Hooligan's Return is certainly an intellectual challenge. I am not very familiar with Romanian history and culture, but I could relate to many questions about who we are as individuals, what makes us who we are, and to what purpose. The Hooligan's Return is a harrowing but successful experiment in creative nonfiction. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Romanian exile Norman Manea's internationally acclaimed memoir/novel, now available to English-language readers At the center of The Hooligan's Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present. Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always connecting the individual with the collective destiny. Manea speaks of the bloodiest time of the twentieth century and of the emergence afterward of a global, competitive, and sometimes cynical modern society. Both a harrowing memoir and an ambitious epic project, The Hooligan's Return achieves a subtle internal harmony as anxiety evolves into a delicate irony and a burlesque fantasy. Beautifully written and brilliantly conceived, this is the work of a writer with an acute understanding of the vast human potential for both evil and kindness, obedience and integrity. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)859.334Literature Italian Romanian literature and Rhaeto-Romanic literature, Corsican, Sardinian Romanian fiction 1900– 1945–LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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