The disappearance of the outside
Subtitle: a manifesto for escape
By: by Andrei Codrescu.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Ruminator Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Codrescu, Andrei, 1946-; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Romanian Americans -- Biography; Romania -- Intellectual life
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This cultural-literary-social critique examines the paradoxes of repression and artistic freedom in both totalitarian and democratic societies. Beginning with his Stalinist childhood and later exile from a national-communist state, Codrescu considers the status of oppositional writers as diverse as Tristan Tzara, the Dadaist; Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the magical realist; Milan Kundera, the acerbic rationalist; Czeslaw Milosz, the Catholic dissident; and William Burroughs, the technodystopian.

This crucial work calls for an imaginative reach beyond a benign reality founded in technology and commercialism, by striving for a better, evolutionary existence through art."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.     ) and index.