20 ROMANIAN WRITERS
20 ROMANIAN WRITERS An: 2007 Traducatori: Alistair Ian Blyth Lansat în 2005, programul 20 de autori are ca scop promovarea creaţiei literare româneşti pe piaţa internaţională de carte. Editori, personalităţi culturale, critici literari şi toţi cei preocupaţi
ROMANIAN CULTURE
ROMANIAN CULTURE An: 2008 Descriere: Broşură despre Instititul Cultural Român şi câteva dintre programele majore desfăşurate sau în curs de desfăşurare.
Ion Pop - Introducere în avangarda literară românească, 2007, 304 p.
Prin această lucrare de istorie literară putem distinge mai exact între diversele programe şi etape ale avangardei româneşti, putem sesiza mai clar interferenţe doctrinare şi nuanţe individualizante ale fiecărei orientări, suntem mai conştienţi de însemnătatea
Reţeaua institutelor culturale româneşti
Reţeaua institutelor culturale româneşti Autori: Irina Ionescu, Ovidiu Dajbog-Miron An: 2008 Traducatori: Alistair Ian Blyth Descriere: Direcţia Generală Institute Culturale Româneşti din Străinătate a lansat o broşură de prezentare a celor mai importante
Bucharest Days, A Popular Celebration
The inhabitants of Bucharest came out of their homes in great numbers last weekend to celebrate their city, on the anniversary of 549 years since its first being mentioned in a document. Over one hundred events, taking place in 30 locations, brought entertainment for every
Night Lights Light Nights Of Bucharest
Sometimes glowing colorfully in the dusk air, as doors of museums open up for late visitors, or, some other times, its dark sky flushed by lasers for white nights of entertainment, Bucharest often begins to live and breathe anew after sundown. White NightsNow that the
The Town Within The Town
Government Palace in Victoriei Sq. a fragment from the novel Derapaj (Skid), Iaşi, Polirom 2006 Maria’s life glowed with a murky sort of splendor, her past, though committed to oblivion, constantly closing in on her and obscuring her thoughts like the spots of a solar
That Underground Next To Us
In history, the diurnal has always been a distorted image of the nocturnal. In daylight, events are the way we want to see, feel, and understand them. The nocturnal rejects such a compromise for the tranquility of crowds. It has existed next to us since the dawn of history,
The New “Rich” Poverty
Photo: Mihai Duţescu I'm reading an article written by Roberto Segre about the architecture intended for the working class, an architecture that has changed the landscape of the towns only in the twentieth century. Until then, poverty did not have such a great influence
Urban Memory: Museums Of The Romanian Capital
1st row: National History Museum, Old Court Museum, Archeology Museum (detail), National Museum of Art2nd row: Collections Museum, Zambaccian Museum, Theodor Aman Museum, Gh. Tattarescu Museum 3rd row: Storck Museum, Romanian Peasant Museum, Astronomical Observatory (detail),
Bucharest – An Oddity Surviving Against All Odds
Bucharest (Rom. Bucureşti) has been some sort of oddity since the very first days of its existence. The legend has it that it was founded by a shepherd, named Bucur, and it was later named after him. Not remotely as glorious a godparent as the goddess of wisdom (the case
The Friend From Abroad
Clockwise from top left: People's House, wood church in Romanian Peasant Museum yard, Opera House, Stavropoleos Church, Athenaeum, Caru cu bere pub. Every time I have to recommend some sightseeing in our town to the friend/ acquaintance/ work colleague coming from