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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 3 / 2007  
         
  Article:   NORMAN MANEA AND THE NEW EUROPEAN FRONTIERS.

Authors:  MIHAELA MUDURE. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  This paper focuses on Norman Manea, a contemporary Jewish-American who was born in Romania, in 1936, in a family of Jewish intellectuals. As a child, he was deported with his family between 1941-1945. In the 1980’s Norman Manea immigrated to Western Europe, first, and then to the USA. Once in the US, Norman Manea had difficulties finding his own voice in the new language, in the new reality. Forever marked by his East European roots, he had to redraw his inner and outside frontiers in order to function in another existential universe. In his book, The Return of the Hooligan, Norman Manea describes one of his post-1990 voyages back to Romania, in Bucharest, Cluj, and Suceava. The voyage becomes a liminal space relevant for a self-mediating between several cultures and for the place of the Jewish intellectual at these new frontiers of Europe.  
         
     
         
         
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