Publication

1990 - Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

54,000 words, Guess

Page Count

216 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing524933
  • Goodreads1846570

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3553.O3 Z4627 1990
  • DDCB

Description

"This cultural-literary-social critique examines the paradoxes of repression and artistic freedom in both totalitarian and democratic societies. Beginning with his Stalinist childhood and later exile from a national-communist state, Codrescu considers the status of oppositional writers as diverse as Tristan Tzara, the Dadaist; Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the magical realist; Milan Kundera, the acerbic rationalist; Czeslaw Milosz, the Catholic dissident; and William Burroughs, the technodystopian. This crucial work calls for an imaginative reach beyond a benign reality founded in technology and commercialism, by striving for a better, evolutionary existence through art."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

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