Ileana Alexandra Orlich on Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Romanian Novel

Join us at RCINY for a presentation of Ileana Alexandra Orlich's most recent book Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Romanian Novel (to be published at Columbia Press in August 2009) and a dialogue with the author about modern and contemporary Romanian literature and its translation, this time from an academic perpective, and also from a critic's point of view.

Ileana Alexandra Orlich is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Romanian Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of many scholarly essays and translations of Romanian literature into English, such as Ion Slavici's Mara, Mihail Sadoveanu's Tales from Ancuta's Inn (Povestiri de la Hanu Ancutei), Camil Petrescu's The Bed of Procrustes (Patul lui Procust), Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu's Hallipa trilogy, and Stefan Agopian's Velvet Tache (Tache de catifea). Her books include Silent Bodies: (Re)Discovering the Women of Romanian Short Fiction and Articulating Gender, Narrating the Nation: Allegorical Femininity in Romanian Fiction, both from Columbia Press.
May 15, 7:30 pm
RCINY - THE GALLERY / Carturesti book exhibition
Free admission