Exiled shadow : a novel in collage / Norman Manea ; translated from the Romanian by Carla Baricz.

Umbra exilată. English

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

PC840.23.A47 U4613 2023

First edition.

9780300265729 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0300265727
9780300271614 (ebook)

366 pages ; 21 cm.

(OCoLC)1390444255

In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures throughout the Nomadic Misanthrope's subsequent decades in the United States. At the center of the plot is the figure of the shadow -- the insubstantial shape of the exile, the wandering Jew, the death camp survivor, the individual under totalitarianism, the dark side of the Jungian personality -- a figure that calls into question the boundaries of the human condition.

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