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Category - Fiction / Classics
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 2 months ago
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Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Apr 2012
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Compelling tales of terror and paranoia under a repressive regime by the Romanian writer Norman Manea “Norman Manea’s four novellas, written during the later Ceausescu years, offer a comparable contrast to other Eastern European dissident writing. Instead of the energetic irony, the ebullient absurdism, the sharp-eyed wit, we find a dreamy disconnection, a voice that shock has lowered, an air of sweetness driven mad.”—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal.
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Compulsory Happiness
ISBN: 9780300182958
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In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, f...
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