Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Part I
5. Exile 3
6. Part II. From One Shore To Another
7. A Friend In Berlin 13
8. Empty Theaters? 25
9. Writers And The Great Beast 32
10. The Incompatibilities 44
11. On Clowns: The Dictator And The Artist 63
12. Happy Guilt 92
13. Blasphemy And Carnival 119
14. Cioran 141
15. Through Romanian Eyes: A Half Century Of The NRF In Bucharest 150
16. Berenger At Bard 157
17. Made In Romania 176
18. An Exile On September 11 And After 187
19. The Walser Debate 193
20. Beyond The Mountains 202
21. Some Thoughts On Saul Bellow 234
22. A Stroll With Nathan 247
23. The Exiled Language 253
24. Casa Minima 274
25. Monuments Of Shame: Twenty Years After The Berlin Wall 280
26. Ephemeridae 293
27. The Dada Capital Of Exiles 319
28. Part III
29. The Fifth Impossibility 327
30. Index 351