Language:
Romani
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Contributia scriitorilor evrei la literatura româna
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2001) 131-139
Keywords:
Manea, Norman
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Romanian literature Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
Abstract:
Discusses Manea's views and his literary works. He stated that writing on the Holocaust represents a burden for the survivor writer. Some Holocaust writings are clichéed, although they are marketed as "professional" studies of antisemitism and the Holocaust. Some works lay between fact and fiction, and are not immune to falsification. Relates that Manea was deported in 1941 as a small child, along with his family, from Bukovina to Transnistria. This experience presented him with a sudden and brutal perception of his Jewishness, as well as an early confrontation with human fate. Manea's prose focuses on the decisive moments in which his main characters become aware of their exile or estrangement; e.g. in "Lipoda", the aspiration of the protagonist to become associated with power and to use it secretly against others accrues from his illusion of being able to rid himself of the stigma of being "different".
Note:
Appeared in German as "Desaster, Widerstand und 'jüdische Transzendenz': zum Werk von Norman Manea" in "Erinnerte Shoah" (2003) 385-395.
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