On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist: Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802133755)

Survivor of the Nazi camps and Ceausescu's Romania, winner of the National Book Award, recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Norman Manea, an extraordinary man of letters, gives us a taste of something beyond the scope of even our twentieth-century imagination. . . . Manea is too profound a witness to place his gift for observation in the service of another sensualist account. . . . What matters for him is the phenomenon of an entire nation's life under this simultaneously grotesque and terrifying rule. -- The New Republic

Author: Norman Manea
ISBN-10: 0802133754
ISBN-13: 9780802133755
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/1994
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.17h x 5.47w x 0.50d