The Hooligan's Return; A Memoir

by Norman Manea; Translated by Angela Jianu

• ISBN13: 9780374282561
• ISBN10: 0374282560
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-08-18
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

The long-awaited memoir by one of Romania's greatest living authors The Hooligan's Returnis a haunting memoir, vividly re-creating Norman Manea's harrowing childhood in Fascist Romania while providing indelible portraits of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the pre- and post-Communist eras. Manea's observations about his visit in 1997 are intertwined with his reflections on his return to Romania after four years in Transnistria, in the camps to which large numbers of Romanian Jews were transported in 1941. As the narrative utilizes one journey to illuminate the other, Manea's friends and family tell their own stories, and the topic of departure and return proves to be an obsessive constant. As the story of a writer who is anything but militant, a literary man more interested in moral and aesthetic questions than in politics, this compelling and beautifully executed memoir explores questions of identity, exile, and the conflict between life and literature, dream and reality, past and present.

Author Biography

Norman Manea is the author of eight novels, most recently Black Envelope (FSG, 1995). He has received Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowship Awards. He teaches at Bard College, New York, and lives with his wife in New York City.

Table of Contents

PRELIMINARIES
Barney Greengrass	3	(8)
Jormania	11	(9)
The Circus Arena of Augustus the Fool	20	(6)
Addresses from the Past(I)	26	(7)
The New Calendar	33	(12)
The Claw(I)	45	(14)
THE FIRST RETURN (THE PAST AS FICTION)
The Beginning before the Beginning	59	(8)
The Hooligan Year	67	(11)
Bukovina	78	(7)
Chernobyl, 1986	85	(18)
Within a Budding Grove	103	(12)
Nomadic Language	115	(4)
The Stranger	119	(7)
Bloomsday	126	(2)
The Escape	128	(6)
Addresses from the Past(II)	134	(4)
Maria	138	(2)
Long Live the King!	140	(5)
Utopia	145	(21)
Periprava, 1958	166	(11)
The Functionary	177	(7)
The Departure	184	(10)
The Night Shift	194	(6)
The Snail's Shell	200	(9)
The Claw(II)	209	(14)
THE VIENNESE COUCH
Anamnesis	223	(28)
THE SECOND RETURN (POSTERITY)
En Route	251	(5)
Day One: Monday, April 21, 1997	256	(18)
Day Two: Tuesday, April 22, 1997	274	(14)
Nocturnal Language	288	(6)
Day Three: Wednesday, April 23, 1997	294	(7)
Day Four: Thursday, April 24, 1997	301	(5)
Nocturnal Interlocutors	306	(9)
Day Five: Friday, April 25, 1997	315	(7)
The Home of Being	322	(5)
Day Six: Saturday, April 26, 1997	327	(13)
Day Seven: Sunday, April 27, 1997	340	(6)
Night Train	346	(3)
Day Eight: Monday, April 28, 1997	349	(5)
Day Nine: Tuesday, April 29, 1997	354	(6)
The Longest Day: Wednesday, April 30, 1997	360	(14)
The Penultimate Day: Thursday, May 1, 1997	374	(6)
The Last Day: Friday, May 2, 1997	380

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