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Homeless Bears And “Stupid Idiots”

on the fight between the hulky body of the hunted and the narrow mind of the hunterYou're a stupid idiot!-thus sounded the insult addressed by a desperate man to a taxi driver, before my very own eyes. The text you are about to read is governed by this paradoxically

One Spring Morning

With his empty game bag and rifle on his shoulder, Loveţ the woodsman was slowly walking up the path stretching under the hill. A silly cuckoo was singing in the ash trees on the nearby summit; from the valley, another cuckoo answered its call. The forest had almost leafed

Wild Eyes At The Zoo In Ramnicu Valcea

See here a movie made by first graders at this Zoo In order to allow visitors to experience the shock of looking into the eyes of the jaguar, lion, or bear, all of which are ready to charge, the zoo of Ramnicu Valcea is being modernized. This was made really clear by its

Nr. 70 - vara 2009

SUMAR Nr. 70 Inedit Emil Cioran – De la France (fragment din volumul cu acelaşi titlu apărut la Editura L'Herne în 2009, care reproduce primele pagini ale scrierii datând din 1941. Textul este tipărit în premieră în România, prin bunăvoinţa editurilor

Cristina Chevereşan - Wounds and Deceptions. Decadent and Modernist sensitives on the edge, 2006, 328 p.

Fin-de-siecle offers inestimable keys for the understanding of the emergence of a literary age that has never lost its defining profile. Coming from the outposts of Third Millennium post-modernism, Wounded Identities looks at mysteries that a century ago led towards the

Bucharest Meet Amsterdam

Life is nothing but a perpetual interrogation mark placed above that strange and intriguing image of our very own childhood… and where does it even start to provoke our conscience? Remember that grumpy and oversized street, your everyday neighbors that couldn't restrain

Sunday Best

Cismigiu Gardens Every time I visit this place, I feel the same. Maybe it’s because the elegant flower beds, the winding paths and the chatter of happy kids. Or maybe it’s the young lovers who paddle rowing boats, the skeletal old ladies who gossip on benches of battered

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

Tranquillity

Is every city like this? I’m standing on my balcony, looking down onto a busy car park where a space costs €8 per day. The car alarms are beeping, howling and wailing. It spreads like a virus down the street. Nobody seems to mind. Young men and women stand around in

An American In Bucharest

Both me and the editor of the show listened with great delight to the story of the young American, of Romanian origin, who had come back to Romania in search of his roots and to set up a business. The young man had married a girl from Humuleşti, and now he spoke wonderful

Sunday Morning. A Bourgeois Walk In A Post-Communist City

clockwise from top left: Smardan St. , Stavropoleos St. , Caru cu bere pub (2), Stavropoleos Church (3), Russian Church. Early Sunday morning before 10 A. M. , the city offers its first surprise. It is empty. The bare streets are visible in all their twisted length, without

Eastern Station

In those days they used to go to the Eastern Station, visiting some acquaintances: friends, as they might, after all, also have called them. Except that on this point, at least, Olga was right: they were not their friends; indeed, there was no way or time when they could