num_pages: 192
description: 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
language: English
title: On Clowns: The Dictator and The Artist: Essays
titlecomplete: On Clowns: The Dictator and The Artist: Essays
genres: Essays, Romanian Literature, Nonfiction, Romania
ratings_count: 67
publisher: Grove Press