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The Trenchcoat Reflection

Hello, I’m back at it yet again to talk a bit about this week’s book: The Trenchcoat by Norman Manea. On the whole, I found the book kind of confusing to read. The start feels like it throws us into the story very quickly, and we are left to try and figure it out on […]

Posted in Blogs, Manea | Tagged with communism, jackets, Romania, totalitarianism, uncertainty

Manea on Interpretation and Complicity

Manea on Interpretation and Complicity

Norman Manea, The Trenchcoat

Posted in Lecture Videos, Manea lecture | Tagged with C20th, complicity, dictatorship, interpretation, power, Romania, suspicion, totalitarianism

With Norman Manea

With Norman Manea

A conversation with the famed Romanian writer

Posted in Conversation Videos, Manea videos | Tagged with communism, exile, freedom, politics, Romania, totalitarianism, translation, writing

On Georges Perec

On Georges Perec

A conversation with Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire

Posted in Conversation Videos, Perec videos | Tagged with constraint, detail, France, freedom, memory, order, repetition, rules, totalitarianism, utopia, war

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