%0 Book %A Claudiu Turcuș %D 2016 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9783653070453 %T Norman Manea %B Aesthetics as East Ethics %R 10.3726/978-3-653-07045-3 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049871 %X The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse. Manea's aesthetics is seen also as an Eastern European ethics, significant for the writer’s status while living and working under the Communist censorship in a totalitarian state and in the global context of World literature. %K aesthetics, ethics, communism, censorship, Romania %G English