Background
Manea, Norman was born on July 19, 1936 in Suceava, Bukovina, Romania. Son of Marcu and Janeta (Braunstein) Manea. came to the United States, 1988.
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In The Black Envelope (Hardcover) authored by Norman Manea, in the eyes of Toleia the protagonist, this spring in Bucharest is brilliant and crazy, and filled with restlessness, toxins and perverseness. Of noble birth, he is involved in a homicide case because of a traffic accident in his boyhood, and in his adolescence he is forced to leave the teaching post for ""moral issue"", he is put into prison, and then released strangely...
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( In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of t...)
In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal. "Norman Manea's four novellas, written during the later Ceausescu years, offer a comparable contrast to other Eastern European dissident writing. Instead of the energetic irony, the ebullient absurdism, the sharp-eyed wit, we find a dreamy disconnection, a voice that shock has lowered, an air of sweetness driven mad."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times "Mr. Manea's voice is radically new, and we are blessedly awakened and alerted by the demand his fiction makes on our understanding."—Lore Segal, New York Times Book Review
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Manea, Norman was born on July 19, 1936 in Suceava, Bukovina, Romania. Son of Marcu and Janeta (Braunstein) Manea. came to the United States, 1988.
Master of Science in Engineering, Institute Construction, Bucharest, Romania, 1954.
Engineer, Romania, 1959-1974; writer, Romania, 1969-1986; fellow, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, West Berlin, Germany, 1987; fellow International Academy Scholarship and the Arts, Bard College, Annandale On Hudson, New York, 1989-1992; writer in residence, Bard College, Annandale On Hudson, New York, 1992-1996; Francis Flournoy professor in European studies and culture, Bard College, Annandale On Hudson, New York, since 1997.
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Member American Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Berlin Academy Art.
Married Josette-Cella Boiangiu, June 28, 1969.