Contact
Hoe winkelen bij ons werkt
Bezorging
Winkelgids
The Censor's Notebook
Engels
50 b
Tot 30 dagen retourrecht
Klanten kochten ook
/
Paperback
24.51
€
/
Paperback
39.89
€
A fascinating narrative of life in communist Romania, and a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of literature and censorship.
Winner of the 2023 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize
A Censors Notebook is a window into the intimate workings of censorship under communism, steeped in mystery and secrets and lies, confirming the power of literature to capture personal and political truths.
The novel begins with a seemingly non-fiction frame storyan exchange of letters between the author and Emilia Codrescu, the female chief of the Secret Documents Office in Romanias feared State Directorate of Media and Printing, the government branch responsible for censorship. Codrescu had been responsible for the burning and shredding of the censors notebooks and the state secrets in them, but prior to fleeing the country in 1974 she had stolen one of these notebooks.
Now, forty years later, she makes the notebook available to Liliana, the character of the author, for the newly instituted Museum of Communism. The work of a censora job about which it is forbidden to talkis revealed in this notebook, which discloses the structures of this mysterious institution and describes how these professional readers and ideological error hunters are burdened with hundreds of manuscripts, strict deadlines, and threatening penalties. The censors lose their identity, and are often frazzled by neuroses and other illnesses.
Informatie over het boek
Engels
Geef dit boek vandaag nog cadeau
Dat gaat heel eenvoudig
1 Voeg het boek toe aan je winkelwagentje en selecteer Als cadeau bezorgen 2 Je krijgt van ons per omgaand een voucher 3 Het boek wordt bezorgd op het adres van de ontvangerDit vind je misschien ook interessant
/
Paperback
17.38
€
/
Gebonden
78.58
€
/
Paperback
10.54
€
/
Gebonden
28.83
€
Hoi! Ik ben Libroamiko, je boekadviseur.
Hoe kan ik je helpen?