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Heidelberg, A German Story

The news that a German foundation offered me, many years ago, a scholarship to Heidelberg gave me an incommensurable joy and an unrestrained curiosity of knowing places that, for a very long time, I could only associate with the plot of Wilhelm Meyer Förster's play.

10 Mar 2009

Premiu pentru traducerea romanului "Orbitor. Aripa stângă" de Mircea Cărtărescu în Norvegia

Steinar Lone, autorul traducerii în limba norvegiană a romanului Orbitor. Aripa stângă de Mircea Cărtărescu, a fost distins cu premiul pentru cea mai bună traducere literară din anul 2008, acordat de Uniunea criticilor din Norvegia, secţia pentru critica literară.

4 Feb 2009

Nina Cassian, poetul lunii la Radiodifuziunea suedeză

Stockholm, 4 februarie 2009. Nina Cassian a fost desemnată poetul lunii februarie de către emisiunea Dagens dikt (Poemul zilei) a canalului P1 al Radiodifuziunii suedeze. Potrivit tradiţiei emisiunii, fondată în 1937, în prima săptămână a fiecărei luni este prezentat

Vienna

All roads to the West go through Vienna. Generous crossroads where the western world fuses with the horizons of eastern Europe and the Germanic spirit seems to have rich confluences with Latinity, the old Austrian metropolis still conveys the same charm that those claras

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I was attracted by Vienna's artistic bohemia, who used to meet in this café. I would scrutinize the physiognomies, mimicry, gestures of these people whose behavior sought to break the rules… But they came to this café for yet another reason. I had discovered, in

The Chronicle And Song Of The Ages

excerptThat afternoon we took a train to Constanta where, the same evening, we planned to embark on a Romanian ship bound to Constantinople. We arrived in Constanta late at night, so we didn't get to see any of the city or port. All I remember is the very agitated sea.

Diary

excerptsThe 18th of March. Depressing weather in Berlin, yet I'm not depressed, only sleepy, in spite of a coffee and a lot of bitter chocolate. Coming back from Italy is like waking up from a Paradise dream or from a heroin trip and finding again those four walls of

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A traveler in Italy, what does N. Iorga see, in the twilight of the century (1897), on the via sacra of his historian's reveries? Primo tempo, what anyone strolling across the cities of the Peninsula will see: life, with its everyday, ordinary rhythms. Exaggeratedly

Advice At Dark

Chapter XLV – How to TravelTraveling is a spiritual need of everybody: our life actually ends with a trip that we are so sorry we have to take in mourning and without companions, leaving the body to which our soul, which is in fact ourselves, was so much connected. We

The Transylvanian Pilgrim

excerptsVienna, December 1838 Extra Hungariam non est vita, si est vita, non est ita.  Vienna and Bucharest! Oh, what a difference between these two cities! Like the sun and the planets is this Capital surrounded by adequate corollaries stretching to the margins of the

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The European travels, a factor in the 'broadening' of his knowledge, are the universities of Codru of Dragus. Always on the road, from Paris to Petersburg, the lucid young man gets instructed in the process, so to speak, his memoir being almost a Bildungsroman.

12 Mar 2009

Nina Cassian la „Bistrot de Venise”

Din 1993, „Bistrot de Venise a devenit unul din punctele de întâlnire a elitei artistice veneţiene, prin elegantul său ambient şi temele de actualitate culturală şi socială care atrag un public de calitate. După seara de 16 ianuarie, când celebra cafenea „Florian