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Stockholm, 26 noiembrie 2008. Nina Cassian, căreia i-a apărut o primă culegere de versuri în limba suedeză în această toamnă (Femeia miracol, trad. Dan Shafran, Editura Ellerströms), a trezit reacţii entuziaste din partea presei literare din Suedia. Majoritatea

Among the customs associated with the individual's life, the burial ceremony is an intimate meditation before death seen as the inevitable end of a natural process, given along with life, therefore it does not bring about a greater trauma than any other aspect of living.

Corneliu Bucur has been the manager of the ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization since 1990. In 1965, he graduated the Babes Bolyai Faculty of History and Philosophy in Cluj. In 1981 he presented his doctoral thesis, with the following theme: Introduction in the

In the true spirit, these three concentric spaces – the village border, the village margin and the household enclosure – are in harmony with each other and with the cosmic order as well.  Romanian Folk Culture, 1999 by Nicolae Constantinescu

We have been acquainted with the fundamental myths of Romanian spirituality in Mircea Eliade's view and read his comments on the legend of Master Manole, the legend which, according to Eliade, certifies that myth is essential to the process of artistic creation, and

The essential resemblance between the legend recorded by Bandinus in 1647 and the folk legends about the Flood, collected at two and a half centuries' distance (around 1900), is conspicuous. In all these variants (but especially in the one chronicled by Bandinus) some

To the achievement of literary impact, Argeş Monastery comes up with a simple and ingenious solution: the absolute contrast between the soft and caressed tenderness of form, on the one side, and the wild graveness of the underlying tragedy, on the other. In the style and

La sfârşitul acestei săptămâni şi la începutul celei următoare, cultura română este prezentă în capitala Poloniei cu două evenimente inedite. 23 noiembrie: Cvartetul Bălănescu în concert la Varşovia În 2008, animaţia poloneză împlineşte 60 de ani

Centrul Român de Informare Bruxelles în parteneriat cu European Artists Management va organiza duminica 30 noiembrie, în cadrul seriei « Duminici Muzicale la Flagey » ultimul brunch-concert al anului 2008. Concertul îi va avea ca protagonişti pe Remus Azoiţei –

excerpts1. Participation and RepetitionPerhaps the most significant difference between modern man and archaic man consists in this: for archaic man, a thing or an act acquires significance only in as much as it participates in a prototype, or in as much as it reiterates

Downstream on the wideArgesh River's sideNegru Voda's riding;Ten men go beside him:Masons, craftsmen fine, Masterbuilders – nine;Manoli makes ten,The greatest craftsman. Down this dale, they're boundTo erect and foundA monastery hall,A memorial. There, as

Like an Egyptian pharaoh, who built a pyramid to be the abode of his body, with a view to future life, the powerful Romanian princes built monasteries to rest and keep their bones till Doomsday. Their unflinching faith in the immortality of the soul drove them to these pious