Title: The disappearance of the outside
Subtitle: a manifesto for escape
First published: 1990
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.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Romanian Americans, American Authors, Biography, American Poets, Romanians, united states, Poets, biography, Romania, politics and government, Political refugees
Places: Romania
People: Andrei Codrescu (1946-)
Time periods: 20th century