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Alabanza Del Campesino Rumano

Discurso de recepción pronunciado el 29 de mayo de 1940en la Sesión pública solemne de la Academia Rumana Desde luego, el nacimiento de un pueblo es un milagro, así como también es milagro el nacimiento hasta de una musaraña. Es por eso que los comienzos de todos los

El Elogio De La Aldea Rumana

Discurso de recepción pronunciado el 5 de junio de 1937en la sesión pública solemne de la Academia Rumana  De las aldeas rumanas (conozco sobre todo a las transilvanas) se puede afirmar, en general, sin ninguna restricción esencial, que siguen conservando, como estructura

El Museo Del Campesino Rumano

Avenida Kiseleff nr. 3, Bucarest – RumaníaTeléfono: (4021) 650. 53. 60 – Fax: (4021) 659. 65. 13  En 1912, en el sitio de la antigua Casa de la Moneda y del palacio de Mavrogheni, se coloca la piedra fundamental del edificio del Museo de la gran avenida con el fin

The New Man

An Individual without Individualism To a new society – a new man. Naturally, one would not fancy a communist world inhabited by middle-class people in disguise. That was the most delicate problem raised by transformist mythology. One could not rebuild the economy and

Sightseeing

Visiting cities, a consumer tourist practice, is usually presented in the same image wrapping like shopping in a boutique, or attending to a show: one goes for the glossiest package, the funniest label, the wildest excitement vouched for. As a tourist product, a city is

Recent Public Memorials In Bucharest: Paul Neagu's Century Cross

Paul Neagu's Century Cross was set up at Charles de Gaulle Plaza (the former TelevisionPlaza), Bucharest, in September 1997, as a memento of the 1989 anti-Communist riots. It is a six meter wide lenticular bronze disk with a large cross pattern on both faces made up

The Birds Of The Sky

excerpts It was in 1985 when a young woman who had applied for an emigration visa to West Europe and was not granted it was looking for a master of Oriental practices to get strength and self-protection. She was afraid she might be arrested, and her intention was to acquire,

What We See

excerpts …Once, when his wife's condition showed signs of deterioration, Marcu entered the Sfînta Vineri church, on his way home from the shops he had called at to collect his rents. He prayed a long time and fervently, though he could hardly concentrate, choking

Bucharest Wit

In Romanian, Bucharest is a plural noun. This implies it is a multifaceted city, dazzling in its diversity. However, it is not a conglomerate of villages, of boroughs, like London or New York. There are not self-contained neighborhoods, each with its main street (High Street),

Chronicles Of An Optimist

excerpts NOISES OF THE CAPITAL For reasons I cannot exactly explain, the flow of ideas circulated by the independent press has strikingly dwindled to a mere trickle. One can only put it down to the times of fatigued irritation we are living through as we wait for the much

Bucharest - Memory Walled-In

Architecture represents a means of interrogating history. Rather ominous, it is to be feared, when the question applies to the Romanian capital. Why so? The way Bucharest has been subjected to transformations in the last century accounts for the living changes affecting

Walking With A Cane In Bucharest

 Bucharest Again It is hard to explain the emergence of a language and the birth of a nation – they seem to be part of a mystery. All of a sudden, history records, in some part of the world, an unknown nation and a new language, probably derived and related, but new.