Bucharest
excerpts From Winter to Summer Two seasons, rather than four, by all means. Late fall, with powerful stags calling. After the horse races in Moldavia and the first fires in the remotest houses of Bukovina, winter comes. The only flowers left are those in the carpet wool
Three Controversial Books
What is one supposed to understand by image and to what extent should one take it to heart? Physiologically, the image is the consciousness one is left with about an absent object. It is, therefore, the opposite of perception, i. e. representation of a present object. In
Voyage To Southern Russia And Crimea, Through Hungary, Wallachia And Moldavia (Paris, 1837)
excerpts Chapter III: BUCHAREST-WALLACHIA (…) My advice to the fatigued traveler who arrives in Bucharest is to pay his first visit to the excellent Turkish baths which we were to try ourselves soon. These establishments, mostly situated in the quarter by the Dâmboviţa
Romanian Profile
excerpts In the first half of the XVIIth century, there appeared a new combination of imported styles which has been characterized as the first Wallachian manifestation. The prototype of this style is the village church of Gherghiţa in Prahova county. A later example of
19th-Century Bucharest In Graphic Art
by various artists
Once ...
The Cries of BucharestCities have their own special humming. Church bells, tram noises, horses, sergeants' whistles, car horns (banned in Bucharest), dogs barking, army trumpets, and so on, and so on – all combined, heard from a distance, forming a characteristic
End Of Century In Bucharest
excerpts In the large house of the Barbus, in the Mogoşoaia Bridge Street, the main staircase was guarded by two bronze moors, carrying huge, crystal lamps. Upstairs, you climbed to the boyar's dwelling. Under the first steps, however, a narrow door opened toward the
At The Fair
Yellow and blue streetcars, princely coaches, churlish carts and bikes and a lot of folks on foot…From so many streets and ways, like on as many arms of a huge river waves upon waves of people are flowing as if into a boisterous sea, unto the barrier at the end of the
The Bucharest Of Former Times
Volume I, 1871 - 1884 The Christmas of 1871? My young age then was so eagerly waiting for it. By 10 o'clock the night of the Eve, the shrill voices of the carolers would resound all over Bucharest. In those days the carolers were children from the edge of town, children
Herta Müller, laureată a Premiului Nobel, o prezenţă constantă în viaţa culturală din România
Acordarea Premiului Nobel pentru literatură 2009 scriitoarei germane Herta Müller are o semnificaţie specială pentru România. Născută în Banat, Herta Müller a păstrat o legătură strânsă cu ţara de origine. Scriitoarea a participat, în ultimii ani, la numeroase
Culorile Avangardei: serie de evenimente organizate de Institutul Cultural Român la Sibiu
Institutul Cultural Român organizează, la Sibiu, de la jumătatea lunii mai, o serie de evenimente sub genericul Culorile Avangardei. Proiectul îmbină activităţi expoziţionale, publicistice şi exegetice focalizate asupra modernismului şi avangardei din România
Route No. 1
Walking around the city arm in arm with literary recollections… Laying on façades invisible memorial plates with quotes in verse or prose… Experiencing live the sensation of osmosis between fiction and reality… Feeling literature become history, and history – literature…