On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist: Essays

by Norman Manea

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802133754
• ISBN13: 9780802133755
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"