Reading and discussion with Carmen-Francesca Banciu
Radu Iosif, journalist and the son of a Securitate informant, wants to take the veil off the strange events that took place in Romania in December 1989 and to reconstruct the moment of the Revolution. Having this in mind, he starts following his noncomformist friends that took part in street fights that day: he listens to their private conversations, he tapes them, he talks with their neighbours, he employs all the methods he learned from his father to create an accurate image of the events he avoided taking part in back then.
Initially published by the Romanian Cultural Foundation (Bucharest, 1998), the novel was rewritten by the author in German and appeared under a different title: Ein Land voller Helden (Ullstein, Berlin, 2000). Chapters of the book have been published in The Third Shore: Women's Fiction from East Central Europe. Writings from an Unbound Europe (North Western University Press, 2006). Carmen-Francesca Banciu lives in Berlin since 1991 and works as a writer, journalist, and creative writing trainer.
The discussion will be joined by Elena Mancini, translator from German to English of Carmen-Francesca Banciu, and editor of Logos magazine in New York, and literary critic Anca Luca Holden, that has followed the author's work.
FREE ADMISSION. The reading and discussion are presented in English. RSVP at icrny@icrny.org, 212-687-0180. .
