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Compulsory Happiness

In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of โ€Compulsory Happinessโ€ create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal.โ€Norman Manea`s four novellas, written during the later Ceausescu years, offer a comparable contrast to other Eastern European dissident writing. Instead of the energetic irony, the ebullient absurdism, the sharp-eyed wit, we find a dreamy disconnection, a voice that shock has lowered, an air of sweetness driven mad.โ€–Richard Eder, โ€Los Angeles Timesโ€Mr. Manea`s voice is radically new, and we are blessedly awakened and alerted by the demand his fiction makes on our understanding.โ€–Lore Segal, โ€New York Times Book Reviewโ€

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