Embattled
Norman Manea grew up doubly cursed: first he had to survive the Nazis and then the communist dictators in his native Romania. His dire experience forged a writer.
Costica Bradatan is Associate Professor in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. His latest book, Dying for Ideas. The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury.
Norman Manea grew up doubly cursed: first he had to survive the Nazis and then the communist dictators in his native Romania. His dire experience forged a writer.