The Review of Contemporary Fiction Spring 2010 - Writings from Postcommunist Romania

Informationen zum Autor John O'Brien is a well-known NEW YORKER cartoonist. For Clarion, he has illustrated DEAR OLD DONEGAL Klappentext The Review of Contemporary Fiction was founded in 1981 to promote a vision of literary culturethat is not limited to the immediately popular, and to ensure that important world writers outside popular attention continue to be written about and discussed. Zusammenfassung A collection of short stories and essays by some of the greatest contemporary Romanian writers and featuring such acclaimed authors as Andrei Codrescu and Dumitru Tsepeneag this special issue of TheReview of Contemporary Fiction focuses on the realities of living and writing in Romania under communism, and then the often painful, often peculiarly comic transition to a different way of life after the fall of Ceausescu.

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• Authors: John (EDT)/ Riker Brien, O&apos, John (EDT)/ Riker O'Brien
• Assisted by: John O'Brien (Editor), Ehren Schimmel (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2010
• EAN: 9781564786081
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-608-1
• No. of pages: 271
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Review of Contemporary Fiction; The Review of Contemporary Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature