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1936 prozator si eseist prose writer and essayist

Noaptea pe latura lunga, 1969; Captivi, 1970; Atrium, 1974; Primele nopti, 1975; Cartea fiului, 1976; Zilele si jocul, 1977; Anii de ucenicie ai lui August Prostul, 1979; Octombrie, ora opt, 1981; Pe contur, 1984; Plicul negru, 1986; Despre clovni: dictatorul si artistul, 1997

Night on Long Edge, 1969; Captives, 1970; Atrium, 1974; The First Nights, 1975; The Book of the Son, 1976; Days and the Game, 1977; August Prostul's Years of Apprenticeship, 1979; October, Eight O'Clock, 1981; Contour, 1984; The Black Envelope, 1986; About Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist, 1997

Sunt putini scriitorii care pot aduce in pagina o panza atat de consistenta si totodata atat de policroma de fapte, senzatii, reflectii si reflectari cum se intalneste de regula in proza lui Norman Manea. Prozatorul are o puternica obsesie a concretului sufletesc, desfacand in mii de fire o situatie, o intamplare abia schitata, un gest consumat rapid, o replica doar bolborosita si refacand apoi intregul, dar mai concentrat, mai dens. (Mircea Iorgulescu)


Few writers can give the written page such a consistent texture, and at the same time so polychrome, so coloured with facts, sensations, reflections and mirrored images, as Norman Manea does in his prose. The writer is deeply obsessed with unravelling into a thousand threads a situation, a barely sketched incident, a rapidly consumed gesture, a mumbled reply and then reweaving them into a more concentrated, denser whole. (Mircea Iorgulescu)