Norman Manea - The Fifth Impossibility - Essays on Exile and Language

socialism, abandonment of 33–4, 38

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 112, 124, 293

Sontag, Susan 123, 144, 149

Soviet Union 4, 33; see also Russia

Spanish Civil War 112

Spielberg Archive 196–7

Stalin, Joseph / Stalinism 35, 37, 67, 80, 94; and cultural supremacy 113; repression of literature 39, 293, 294, 295; see also Ceau sescu, Nicolae

Stein, Gertrude 311–12

Steinberg, Lica 181

Steinberg, Saul 176–86, 321

Steiner, George 137, 138, 258–9

Sterne, Hedda 183

Tabucchi, Antonio 272–3

televisual reality 136–7

Ten Commandments 28

terrorism 309–10; see also September 11 attacks

Tertz, Abram see Sinyavsky

Thompson, Dorothy 102–3

Thorez, Maurice 26

Tolstoy, Leo 306

totalitarianism 4–5, 6–7; and blasphemy 133–5; clowns and tyrants 63–91; growth of Romanian fascism 105–7; and language 260; vagaries of transition from 33–5, 117–18, 282–3, 287–9, 305–6; see also communism; intellectuals and totalitarianism; Nazism

translation 259–60, 263–5, 266, 267, 269–70; dying art in America 308–9

Treaty of Versailles 105–6

Tsvetaeva, Marina 124

Tudor, Corneliu Vadim 128–9, 287

22 (journal) 129–30

tyrants and clowns 63–91

Tzara, Tristan 321, 323

Unabomber 275

Upjohn, Richard 278

U.S. presidential elections 83–4

Valéry, Paul 119

Vartic, Ion 144

Verdery, Katherine 113

Vinoly, Rafael 279

Wałesa, Lech 299

Walser, Martin 193–201, 290–1

Weil, Simone 39

Wills, Frank 278

Wittgenstein, Ludwig 265

Wood, James 244

World War II: 1989 as end of 280, 281; see also Holocaust; Nazism

writers: demonization of difference 133; as exiles 8–9; Kafka as embodiment of literature 336–7; post-communist themes for 30–1; see also intellectuals and totalitarianism

Yiddish language 205, 217, 253, 340–1

Zilber, Bellu 48

Zuckerman, Nathan see Roth

Zweig, Stefan 347