The Fifth Impossibility : Essays on Exile and Language.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I -- Exile -- PART II: From One Shore to Another -- A Friend in Berlin -- Empty Theaters? -- Writers and the Great Beast -- The Incompatibilities -- On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist -- Happy Guilt -- Blasphemy and Carnival -- Cioran -- Through Romanian Eyes: A Half Century of the NRF in Bucharest -- Berenger at Bard -- Made in Romania -- An Exile on September 11 and After -- The Walser Debate -- Beyond the Mountains -- Some Thoughts on Saul Bellow -- A Stroll with Nathan -- The Exiled Language -- Casa Minima -- Monuments of Shame: Twenty Years after the Berlin Wall -- Ephemeridae -- The Silence of the Eastern Bloc -- The Cuban Shipwreck -- A Lasting Poison -- Crime and Punishment, Refugee Style -- Revolutionary Shadows -- Against Simplification -- Another Genealogy -- Rich People of the World, Unite! -- The Dada Capital of Exiles -- PART III -- The Fifth Impossibility -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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