Norman Manea, The Trenchcoat
A conversation with Norman Manea
Questions on The Trenchcoat
Videos about Norman Manea and Romania under Communism
Norman Manea’s The Trenchcoat is definitely one of those stories that stayed on my mind after finishing it, but I also have to admit that I found it a bit confusing at times. While reading it, I had to go back and reread certain parts more than once to fully understand what was happening. That […]
Manea’s The Trenchcoat was such a breather compared to the other books, I actually liked reading it. Starting the book, I didn’t know how to feel or what to expect, but the dinner party created an uncomfortable environment. From the title itself, I expected some crime, thriller, or murder mystery vibes just through the ambiguity […]
This entire weekend I’ve had a horrible headache, so some of the writing might have escaped me. The way the characters acted in the book sort of reflected what people in my grandparents and parents days used to be like whilst under Soviet intervention….
This entire weekend I’ve had a horrible headache, so some of the writing might have escaped me. The way the characters acted in the book sort of reflected what people in my grandparents and parents days used to be like whilst under Soviet intervention….
Reading “The Trenchcoat” honestly felt like sitting through one of those long adult dinner parties where everyone is drinking wine and talking about politics while you slowly lose track of what the conversation is even about. For most of the story, the characters are just sitting around talking, gossiping, and making slightly awkward jokes. At […]
With all the love and respect in the world, what did I just read? I would normally ask “will we never have a story that has just one ‘normal’ character?” but I also know that our class conversation would be “but what is normal?”… So I suppose I certainly have learned something, it just may […]
