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La sombra exiliada es una novela psicológica e intelectual, un collage que entrecruza la vida de un superviviente del Holocausto, su existencia posterior en una dictadura comunista y el exilio en América, con sus obsesiones, las de un apasionado de la literatura. El discurso narrativo, desarrollado en varios niveles, está dominado por su pasión por los libros y la intensa intimidad con su hermanastra, con la que compartió el horror del campo. La amistad entre el protagonista -el Nómada Misántropo- y Günther, un rumano de etnia alemana, exiliado en Berlín, obsesionado por el Holocausto y la culpa alemana, marca una retrospectiva de los dramáticos acontecimientos del siglo XX, el nacionalismo, el fascismo, el comunismo y el exilio. L. Al final de la lectura, el lector se sentirá, probablemente, compañero solidario del nómada melancólico e irónico que nos acompaña con humor, escepticismo y su tenaz empeño por sobrevivir.
In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures throughout the Nomadic Misanthrope’s subsequent decades in the United States. At the center of the plot is the figure of the shadow—the insubstantial shape of the exile, the wandering Jew, the death camp survivor, the individual under totalitarianism, the dark side of the Jungian personality—a figure that calls into question the boundaries of the human condition. Recalling the beloved nineteenth-century German tale of Peter Schlemihl, the man who sold his shadow for a bag of gold, this is Norman Manea’s most daring work yet: an intimate record of alienation and endurance.
In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures throughout the Nomadic Misanthrope’s subsequent decades in the United States. At the center of the plot is the figure of the shadow—the insubstantial shape of the exile, the wandering Jew, the death camp survivor, the individual under totalitarianism, the dark side of the Jungian personality—a figure that calls into question the boundaries of the human condition. Recalling the beloved nineteenth-century German tale of Peter Schlemihl, the man who sold his shadow for a bag of gold, this is Norman Manea’s most daring work yet: an intimate record of alienation and endurance.