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Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba: Cât de subversiv putea fi Noica

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · OPINION, PEOPLE, Reviews

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Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba
Cât  de  subversiv  putea  fi  Noica*
«Având presimtirea dezastrelor teritoriale din vara acestui an apocaliptic m’am încumetat [eu, Lucian Blaga] să afirm că noi, Românii, vom avea un viitor de natură spirituală cum n’am avut niciodată». Desprinsă din Prelegerea inaugurală din anul universitar 1940-1941 ţinută la Universitatea din Cluj mutată la Sibiu (1) din [...]

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Mircea Eliade într-o colaborare cu bucluc

February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Diaspora, OPINION, PEOPLE

Desemnat de Sorin Antohi drept “noul Eliade”, Ioan Petru Culianu a reprezentat “un fenomen exploziv introdus în cultura română de după 1989”. Sigur, ar fi contra-productiv să repunem în circulaţie ditirambii prin care s-a realizat această masivă manipulare, care în sine ar fi fost chiar benefică, dacă numele discipolului Culianu n-ar fi fost folosit permanent pentru a-l înlătura din cultura românească pe marele Eliade prin acuzaţii nefondate de anti-semitism. Si, evident, dacă interesul s-ar fi axat exclusiv pe noutatea adusă de psiho-sociologul Culianu (1950-1991) în cele trei cărţi publicate cu ajutorul lui Eliade în Franţa la Payot şi Flamarion, apoi traduse în engleză şi italiană. Dar, mai ales, dacă “fenomenul exploziv” n-ar fi fost declanşat de lansarea unor neadevăruri prin editurile Humanitas, Nemira şi Polirom (urmate inconştient de Editura Academiei), inventându-se doctorate în număr excedentar şi săltându-l pe Culianu în scaunul de conferenţiar de istoria religiilor când n-a apucat să fie decât visiting professor, ba încă imaginându-l (în locul ocupat din 1986 de prof. Wendy Doniger) drept “urmaş al lui Eliade” la vremea când nu-şi trecuse încă doctoratul de Stat…

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Romanian-Jewish Topics (Part I)

May 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE, quotations

Romanian-Jewish Topics (Part One of Two):
Quotations from an Alternative Anthology:
“Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women”
Presented and edited by Constantin Roman, Preface by Catherine Durandin, published by the Centre for Romanian Studies (London), 2009
1,100 pages, 160 biographies, 600 quotations, 4,000 references, credits, discography and URLs , 6 Indexes
http://www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.html
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Lauren BACALL,
“Betty” (née [...]

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ROMANIAN-JEWISH TOPICS: (Part two of two)

May 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, PEOPLE, Translations, quotations

ROMANIAN-JEWISH TOPICS: (PART TWO OF TWO)
(continued from Part ONE)
Quotations from an Alternative Anthology:
“Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women”
Presented and edited by Constantin Roman, Preface by Catherine Durandin, published by the Centre for Romanian Studies (London), 2009
1,100 pages, 160 biographies, 600 quotations, 4,000 references, performances & exhibition credit, discography and URLs , 6 [...]

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MEDICAL CARE DURING DICTATORSHIP (”My Second University” Two Reviews by Ionel Taranu & Constantin ROMAN

October 19th, 2005 · Comments Off · Books, PEOPLE, Reviews

MEDICAL CARE UNDER DICTATORSHIP

(“My Second University” Two Reviews: Ionel TARANU and Constantin ROMAN)
“My Second University – memories from Romanian Communist prisons”
by Dr. Stanciu Stroia and Dr. Dan Dusleag,
(iUniverse Inc., New York, 2005, 271 pages,
Index, illustrations, £10.53 ISBN: 0-595-34639-1)
THREE GENERATIONS OF MEDICAL DOCTORS UNDER DICTATORSHIP:
Dr. Stanciu Stroia was born in rural Transylvania. He [...]

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Burton Y. Berry, Romanian Diaries, 1944-1947 (Reviewed by Russell Pittman

May 30th, 2005 · Comments Off · Books, Reviews, Uncategorized

Russell Pittman: REVIEW:
Burton Y. Berry, Romanian Diaries, 1944-1947
(ed. Cornelia Bodea). Iasi: The Center for Romanian Studies, 2000. 715 pp.,
ISBN 973-9432-07-7.
Price: £ 32.95
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/9739432077/qid=1117437423/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_8_4/202-7237407-5767029
Romanian joke: The first post-1989 commercial American ship arrives at the Romanian harbor of Constanta. A dockworker asks the captain:
“What took you guys so long?”
The captain replies,
“You know, travel by [...]

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Lucia Hossu-Longin

February 22nd, 2003 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

“Memorialul Durerii”, a political TV Documentary series had been researched and produced for the Romanian TV by Lucia Hossu-Loghin. This is an epic story of Romania’s most notorious political prisons under Communism. Miss Hossu-Loghin had interviewed the survivors, or the families of those jailed, visited the sites where the crimes were perpetrated and even [...]

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“Alone” – Ion Caraion

February 18th, 2003 · Comments Off · Poetry, Translations

“Where are you going, Sir?
In the garden, my Dream.
To do what, Sir?
To be shot, my Dream.
‘cause they have bullets, Sir?
‘cause they have time, my Dream.”
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Ion Caraion, (1923-1986), Poet, Essayist
(from “Am pe nimeni” – “I have nobody”)
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Translated from Romanian by:
Constantin [...]

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