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The hooligan's return; a memoir
By Manea, Norman
- ISBN
- 978-0-37428-256-1
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2003
As Manea (Black Envelope) is a Romanian-born Jewish writer who has lived in exile in New York since 1988, this is the memoir of a refugee artist. The evocative narrative thus wrestles with issues of nationalism, infantilism, and cultural identification, setting the individual artist against the monopolies of nations, dictators, and other brutalities of history. In a manner at once serious and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
