"Romanian Writers on Writing"was published very recently by Trinity University Press
The collection Manea has edited of Romanian Writers on Writing (2011) is one of those books that opens up a whole world that overflows the banks of the present nation of Romania. It’s a world previously unavailable to all who must wait for translations into English. We have had bright flashes of that world in the amazing work of those who left Romania during the twentieth century and found readers and audiences elsewhere—driven out or voluntarily withdrawing from that oppressed place—including Paul Celan, E. M. Cioran, Eugene Ionesco, Mircea Eliade, Andrei Codrescu, and Manea himself (to say nothing of the artists Constantin Brancusi and Saul Steinberg, the pianists Dinu Lupati and Radu Lupu, the composer Georges Enescu). Only a few Romanian poets have been translated into English, among them Tudor Arghezi, Ion Caraion, and Benjamin Fondane (who wrote in French). Now Manea’s edited collection of Romanian writings on writing give us a fuller sense of how much we are missing. from The Center for the Writing Arts
Norman Manea (editor)
Sanda Cordoş (editor)
Carla Baricz (translator)
Raluca Manea (translator)
Trinity University Press
Series: The Writer’s World | Publication Date: 2011 | 336 p. in 8º
ISBN-10: 1595340823 | ISBN-13: 978-1595340825
Vanity doubled by vitality, vulnerability mixed in with force, and the fear of dissolution intimately linked with the desperate pride of defeating historical time confer upon Romanian literature a special tension, born from wandering and threat. The 81 writers gathered in Romanian Writers on Writing explore this unsettling tension and exemplify the powerful, polyphonic voice of their country’s complex literature. The Writer’s World series features writers from around the globe discussing what it means to write, and to be a writer, in other countries. The series collects a broad range of material and provides access for the first time to a body of work never before gathered in English, or, perhaps, in any language.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
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| Introduction |
| 1 | (7) |
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| "The Personality of the Creator" | |
| 8 | (1) |
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| 9 | (3) |
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| 12 | (6) |
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| 14 | (2) |
| Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu | |
| 16 | (2) |
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| "Cuts on the Arm of the Pen" | |
| 18 | (3) |
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| 21 | (1) |
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| 21 | (2) |
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| 23 | (4) |
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| 27 | (3) |
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| 30 | (4) |
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| 34 | (4) |
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| 38 | (1) |
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| 38 | (1) |
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| 39 | (2) |
| "Notes from a Literary Confession" | |
| 41 | (3) |
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| 44 | (1) |
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| "Introduction to Don Quixote" | |
| 45 | (2) |
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| 47 | (6) |
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| 53 | (5) |
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| From "The Curse of Writing" | |
| 58 | (4) |
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| 62 | (5) |
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| 67 | (3) |
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| 70 | (5) |
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| From "Advantages of Exile" | |
| 75 | (4) |
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| "Tragedies That Must Occur" | |
| 79 | (3) |
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| 82 | (2) |
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| From God Was Born in Exile | |
| 84 | (3) |
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| 87 | (4) |
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| "Partisan of the Erotical Absolute" | |
| 91 | (1) |
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| 91 | (3) |
| "Assyriology (The Library of Clay Books)" | |
| 94 | (5) |
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| From "The Writer and the Word" | |
| 99 | (4) |
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| 103 | (3) |
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| From "The Team Passing through the World" | |
| 106 | (5) |
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| "The Immigration Department" | |
| 111 | (3) |
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| 114 | (7) |
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| "The Noble Fool of Totality" | |
| 121 | (3) |
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| 124 | (2) |
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| "Ill from Unwritten Books" | |
| 126 | (3) |
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| From "Wanda, or the Interpretation Syndrome" | |
| 129 | (5) |
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| From "My Art Was Born from Fear" | |
| 134 | (2) |
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| From "The Text Writes Itself" | |
| 136 | (3) |
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| 139 | (2) |
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| "The Poet, Like the Soldier" | |
| 141 | (3) |
| "Prisoner or Master of Language?" | |
| 144 | (5) |
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| "Why Do I Write? What Do I Believe In?" | |
| 149 | (5) |
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| From Writing and Reading or Vice Versa | |
| 154 | (5) |
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| 159 | (1) |
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| "The Dance with the Book" | |
| 160 | (1) |
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| 161 | (2) |
| From "The Colors of the Rainbow" | |
| 163 | (2) |
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| From "The Raft on the Crest of the Wave" | |
| 165 | (4) |
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| 169 | (1) |
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| "House under Surveillance" | |
| 170 | (2) |
| "Praise of the Anonymous" | |
| 172 | (3) |
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| From "Existence Starts to Gain Density" | |
| 175 | (2) |
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| From Letter to Lucian Raicu | |
| 177 | (3) |
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| From "The Story of a Title" | |
| 180 | (3) |
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| From "Fear of Literature" | |
| 183 | (4) |
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| From "Literature as Religion and Fear" | |
| 187 | (2) |
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| 189 | (1) |
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| 190 | (2) |
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| 192 | (6) |
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| 198 | (1) |
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| From "Toward a Liberal Grammar" | |
| 199 | (3) |
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| 202 | (3) |
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| 205 | (4) |
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| From "I Am Always Behind" | |
| 209 | (3) |
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| 212 | (3) |
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| 215 | (1) |
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| 216 | (2) |
| "The Poetry of the Everyday" | |
| 218 | (4) |
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| 222 | (1) |
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| "Night Letter to Tame My Beloved" | |
| 222 | (4) |
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| 226 | (1) |
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| "The Poem That Cannot Be Understood" | |
| 226 | (3) |
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| 229 | (5) |
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| "Kitty (or the Great Fear has come)" | |
| 234 | (2) |
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| "A Giant Drop of Water Reflecting a Chimera" | |
| 236 | (4) |
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| 240 | (3) |
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| 243 | (1) |
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| "Like Clothes Grown Too Large" | |
| 243 | (3) |
| From "The Power of Words" | |
| 246 | (4) |
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| "`Madness' and the Art of Writing" | |
| 250 | (4) |
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| From "Gruelingly Squeezed Light" | |
| 254 | (4) |
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| 258 | (2) |
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| "The Pact with Yourself: Opus or Life?" | |
| 260 | (2) |
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| "Writing and the Culinary Predilections of My Grandfather" | |
| 262 | (6) |
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| 268 | (3) |
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| 271 | (5) |
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| "How I Did Not Become a Genius" | |
| 276 | (4) |
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| From "The Secret Code: Notes for a Literary Confession" | |
| 280 | (7) |
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| 287 | (5) |
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| 292 | (3) |
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| 295 | (8) |
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1 comment:
well Romanian language is one of my most favorite language and i love it and its writing is so easy . but thanks you share it with us in this place
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