Greetings!
Pleased about your note re Norman Manea. I met him in Bucharest and later was asked to
review two of his books written in Romanian for the Steidl Verlag.
Bianca
> On Nov 30, 2018, at 12:56 AM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Czernowitzers...
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> Earlier this year, on the occasion of presenting to you a rediscovered German documentary on Bukovina [http://ehpes.com/blog1/?p=10391], I stated: "Literature runs like a common thread to most of the reports from Czernowitz and Bukovina."
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> On a personal side note, please let me illustrate this by my latest reading experience. These days I'm binge reading Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America", a roman à clef in times of "alternative facts", an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. Like so many others all over the world, I grieved for Philip Roth, who died on May 22 before he could win the Nobel Prize in literture. The Nobel judges passed over America’s most formidable novelist for decades even as he published one classic after another, but Philip Roth remains in good company with Proust, Joyce, Nabokov, Updike, to name but a few.
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> But what I didn't realize until now is that one of Philip Roth's closest friends, if not the closest, is our fellow member NORMAN MANEA:
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> http://www.normanmanea.com/
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> Norman, Holocaust/Transnistria survivor from Bukovina, is THE Jewish Romanian writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. According to Wikipedia "Manea has been known and praised as an international important writer since the early 1990s, and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has received more than 20 awards and honors." Norman's obituaries on Philip Roth have been published by the world's most prestigious newspapers:
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> Los Angeles Review of Books: https://goo.gl/w9bgEq
> Le Figaro: https://goo.gl/A6ML6s
> Die Zeit: https://goo.gl/E9vVse
> El Pais: https://goo.gl/sZARV6
> Observator Cultural: https://goo.gl/Duzscb
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> From these most sensitive obituaries and interviews we learn a lot about Philip Roth, but at the same time, and even more, we gain a deep insight into Norman Manea's intellectual world. Thank you for this, dear Norman, and it's exciting to count you among the - almost silent - members of our group.
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> Warmest wishes and Happy Hanukkah to you and all!
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> Edgar Hauster
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