Compulsory Happiness

Informationen zum Autor Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. A novelist and essayist! he first published in Communist Romania in the 1960s! producing a string of socially critical works that led to his departure in 1986. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages! and he has received many important cultural and literary prizes! including the MacArthur Fellowship (U.S.)! the Nonino International Literary Prize (Italy)! the Prix Medicis Etranger (France)! and the Nelly Sachs prize (Germany). He is a member of the Berlin Academy of Art and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature! and the French government has named him Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. An award-winning translator! Linda Coverdale has translated many classic works of modern French literature into English. Zusammenfassung Creates 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.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Coverdale, Norman Manea
• Assisted by: Linda Coverdale (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2012
• EAN: 9780300182958
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18295-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; The Margellos World Republic of Letters; World Republic of Letters (Yale)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History