The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

“Exile,” first published in On Clowns (New York: Grove Press, 1992).

“A Friend in Berlin,” first published in Chattahoochee Review, winter/spring 2009.

“Empty Theaters?” first published in World Policy Journal, spring 1993.

“Writers and the Great Beast,” first published in Partisan Review, 1 (1994).

“The Incompatibilities,” first published in New Republic, April 20, 1998.

“On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist,” first published in On Clowns (New York: Grove Press, 1992).

“Happy Guilt,” first published in New Republic, August 5, 1991.

“Blasphemy and Carnival,” first published in World Policy Journal, Spring 1996.

“Cioran,” first published in Conjunctions, 31 (1998).

“Through Romanian Eyes: A Half Century of the NRF in Bucharest,” first published in Salmagundi, spring 2010.

“Berenger at Bard,” first published in Partisan Review, 4 (2000).

“Made in Romania,” first published in the New York Review of Books, February 10, 2000.

“An Exile on September 11 and After,” fragment from an interview first published in Partisan Review, 2 (2002).

“The Walser Debate,” first published in Partisan Review, 3 (1999).

“Some Thoughts on Saul Bellow,” first published in Salmagundi, 148/149 (fall 2005–winter 2006).

“The Exiled Language,” first published in The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature, ed. Alvin H. Rosenfeld (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008).

“Casa Minima,” first published in Abitare, 479 (2007).

“Monuments of Shame: Twenty Years after the Berlin Wall,” first published in the William Phillips Lecture Series (New York: The New School for Social Research, 2009).

“The Silence of the Eastern Bloc,” first published in Jerusalem Post, May 5, 1989.

“A Lasting Poison,” first published on Project Syndicate, November 20, 2008 (copyright © Project Syndicate/Institute for Human Sciences, 2008).

“Crime and Punishment, Refugee Style,” first published on Project Syndicate, November 15, 2007 (copyright © Project Syndicate/Institute for Human Sciences, 2007).

“Revolutionary Shadows,” first published on Project Syndicate, September 3, 2011 (copyright © Project Syndicate/Institute for Human Sciences, 2011).

“Against Simplification,” first published on Project Syndicate, August 15, 2011 (copyright © Project Syndicate/Institute for Human Sciences, 2011).

“Another Genealogy,” first published in Adevarul (adevarul.ro) in 2011.

“The Dada Capital of Exiles,” first published on Project Syndicate, August 31, 2005 (copyright © Project Syndicate/Institute for Human Sciences, 2005).