Lettre internationale

To our readers In Tolstoy’s War and Peace, there is a marginal, but highly amusing, character, the diplomat Bilibin. He is admired for his wit and feared for his sarcasm. He gives prince Andrew a mischievous account of the 1807 campaign, marked by the battles

TABLE OF CONTENTSIN MEMORIAMILIE LUCEAC HAS JOINED THE DIVINEIuliana Luceac, A Letter to Dad . . . . . . . . . . . 9Alexandrina Cernov, I Don’t Believe Time Heals Wounds . . . . . . . . . . . 11Arcadie Suceveanu, A Tough Loss, A Precipitated Leave . . . . . . . . . . .

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

The Romanian Cultural Institute operates within the existing legal framework under Law no. 356 of 2003, the Romanian Government Emergency Ordinance no. 27 of 13th June 2012 and subsequent amendments. Its mission lies in promoting national culture and civilization in Romania

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 82 RetrospectiveNicolae Manolescu – Caracatița cenzurii Adrian Mihalache – Troilus și Cresida – 1965. Deruta lui Wilhelm Meister Ion Vianu – Paul, Sașa Bogdan Murgescu – Declarația din aprilie 1964, după

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

* It's not easy being a Romanian writer. There is a double misunderstanding regarding the perception of Romanian culture abroad. Before referring to it, I must say that the idea of national writer is itself a misunderstanding. If in sport a sort of benign vanity makes

In the last decades, particularly after the collapse of the communist regimes, ardent debates have taken place regarding the political commitment of certain great intellectuals and writers, generating even theoretical and philosophical reflections, concerning the relationship