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If you want to learn Romanian, the Romanian Cultural Institute offers the opportunity to enroll in extensive courses, either in-person or online, starting from December 30, 2024. These courses, held in Bucharest from January 27, 2025, are available at all proficiency

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Entitled A Hand for the Poet/Aplauze pentru poet, the spectacular project developed by the cultural associations The Culture Club and Pro Contemporania, with the support of JTI, having as main partner the Romanian Cultural Institute in London brings to the international

This is a jubilee: the hundredth issue of our quarterly, Lettre Internationale, Romanian editionafter a quarter of a century of existence. In 1984, when Antonin Liehm elaborated the concept of this periodical, his objective was to create a forum wherein the voices

To our readers            Letizia Battaglia, aged 80, still tries to improve the world for the benefit of the new generations. She has always been a rebel, rejecting the restrictions of a traditional marriage and striving for self development. She became a

To our readers            Rereading history helps us to better understand contemporary issues. At their turn, present-day events modify our retrospective view, so that the past looks different, which explains why history has to be periodically rewritten. Anne

Although he travelled extensively since very young, the towering bard of Romanian poetry, Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889), never crossed the Channel. Belgravia will however be filled by his presence through an event celebrating the enduring work of the immortal poet in an original

Sometimes it is more difficult to win the peace than to win the war. This is what the historian Şerban Pavelescu shows by analyzing “The Peaces of the Greater Romania”. Romania’s status at the Peace Conference was ambiguous, because the separate peace concluded

To our readers The American philosopher Costica Bradatan, of Romanian origin, obtained an important international success with his book about the lives of philosophers (which we discussed in a previous issue). He emphasized that some philosophers actually live their

To our readers            Rereading history helps us to better understand contemporary issues. At their turn, present-day events modify our retrospective view, so that the past looks different, which explains why history has to be periodically rewritten. Anne

Edited in Romanian Contents Lettre Internationale no 80-81 RetrospectiveNicolae Manolescu – Amintiri din lumea comunistă Livius Ciocârlie – Răspuns la o întrebare pe care nu mi-o pun Emmanuel Carrère – Limonov Dincolo de evenimentJohn Lanchester – Cum am fost

Bilingual edition (Romanian - English) Texts by Andrei Șerban, Ana Maria Narti Photographs: Mihaela Marin English version: Samuel Onn In theatre, the event is the performance. Those yet to see the performance become witnesses to it through Mihaela’s photographs – perceiving,