The Dialectics Of National Self-Criticism
Some time in the autumn of 1994, Sorin Alexandrescu asked in an interview in 22 magazine why, in the canonical battle between the various radical-democrat and nationalist structures of the opposition (and of the government), more attention is not paid to the real traditions
From The Country Of Jackasses
III. The Culture of Jackasses When an ass leaves his village to go live in the city a wonderful change occurs in him: his asininity leaves the body and sets straight into the soul. In donkey parlance this means the respective jackass becomes cultivated. Thus, an educated
Expoziţia "Culorile Avangardei" la Muzeul de Artă Contemporană din Lisabona
Joi, 26 martie 2009, ora 19. 00, Institutul Cultural Român de la Lisabona va inaugura la Muzeul Naţional de Artă Contemporană - Muzeul Chiado expoziţia Culorile Avangardei. Arta în România 1910-1950. Vernisajul expoziţiei va avea loc în prezenţa lui Manuel Bairrão
"Dialoguri şi fantezii în jazz": Ion Caramitru şi Johnny Răducanu în Germania
Ion Caramitru şi Johnny Răducanu vor susţine, pe data de 16 mai 2009, la Frankfurt, şi pe data de 17 mai 2009, la Köln, două recitaluri de muzică de jazz şi poezie, destinate comunităţiilor româneşti din landul german Renania de Nord-Westfalia şi din Frankfurt.
Notes Of A Hypochondriac
The other Monday walking on Victoriei Road I met a friend. It is a well-known fact that today any guy you treat to a glass of wine at Fialkowsky's or who is in the delightful habit of bumming two or three lei from you is called a friend. Last year, this guy borrowed
The Sadness In The Eyes Of The Immigrant
The Romanians from Down Under To my Victoria from the South Pacific IslandsKo te mana o tenei matenga whetu aianeE poturi i ro o te rangi e piki mai* In Aotearoa (New Zealand), I met happy Romanians. Their happiness was either blended with sadness, or boosted up by it.
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It will take us a lot of tenacity to modify wrong geographic notions, fanciful historical data, to prove to the Westerner that what we suffer from is too much instruction, that the Romanian intellectual is blasé and smiles condescendingly at the unintuitive foreign lecturer's
Romanian Profile
*excerpts THE SOPHISTICATED PEASANTS The Romanians are a social phenomenon. As a nation among nations, they are westerners evolved in the East. They are Latins surrounded by Slavs. They are Romans two thousand years away from Rome. They are contemporaries re-produced on
The Romanian Dimension Of Existence
excerpts Chapter IIIThe Nature of the Being (…) Anybody who knows this nation will agree that the Romanian is a born opponent. Whatever is proposed to him, his first reaction, the first temptation of his thought is to oppose it. But, strangely, his opposition does not
The Psychology Of The Romanian People
Chapter XII. The Current [1907] Psychological Traits of the Romanian PeopleAll foreigners that visited the Romanian countries were unpleasantly struck by the negative traits of our character. They don't care, says Mr. X. Marmier, for the name of their master. What they
Arta Oromânească sub trei dictaturi. Mihai Oroveanu la Arte Marţiale
Sumo cu un summum al scenei artistice româneşti Invitatul serii de Arte Marţiale de marţi, 31 martie 2009, orele 18. 00, la Institutul Cultural Român (Aleea Alexandru 38, Bucureşti) este Mihai Oroveanu. Cel pe care, potrivit spuselor lui Erwin Kessler, moderatorul
„Jazz şi muzică clasică, notaţie şi improvizaţie” cu Harry Tavitian şi Anatoly Vapirov la ICR
Vineri, 22 mai, ora 18. 30, la sediul ICR (Aleea Alexandru 38), va avea loc o întâlnire cu reputatul muzician Harry Tavitian şi invitatul său, saxofonistul Anatoly Vapirov, în cadrul proiectului „Teach Me Tonight: de la blues la etno-jazz cu Harry Tavitian. Tema întâlnirii