Damn you Norman Manea!

I’m not one to swear. But this, this is almost unprecedented. Kafka, Bulgakov, Tolstoy all cut in a different way. This is too close.

Depression is a flaw in chemistry, not in character

In paradise, social stigma is avoided. In paradise, deep sadness is caused by a chemical imbalance.

Born in Bukovina, deported in Transnistria in 1941, during the pogrom that displaced the entire Jewish community of the region, remaining behind, watching the mass emigration of Jews in Israel after the communist regime took power, self exiled  in USA as a result of constant disagreement and disappointment with the socio-political system, Norman Manea withdraws from the physical space and takes refuge in the Romanian language as existential territory.

Publishes Felix Culpa, an essay that casts doubts on Eliade international brand, an essay that brings him unwanted fame in a Romania that refuses to accept the possibility that Mircea Eliade has been, indeed, associated with the Legionnaire movement ideology. The Iron Guard.

The reaction against the hooligan is aggressive.

The hooligan’s reaction against the Romanian society is equally hostile.