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Poetry in Translation (CCII): Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE (1749 – 1832), GERMANY, “Nähe des Geliebten”, “Dor”

July 30th, 2013 · No Comments · International Media, Poetry, quotations, Translations, Uncategorized

Ich bin bei dir; du seist auch noch so ferne,
Du bist mir nah!
Die Sonne sinkt, bald leuchten mir die Sterne.
O, wärst du da!

Sunt lânga tine, departe de ai fi,
În dorul ce m-apasă,
Iar în amurgul serii, din nou aşi vieţui
De te-ai intoarce-acasă.

I am with you. However far you are,
I know you’re near!
The setting sun sets stars up over me.
I want you here!

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Romanian Dictionary of Quotations, Selected & Translated by Constantin ROMAN: Letter ‘G’

July 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Diaspora, OPINION, PEOPLE, quotations, Translations

Guilty:
“You are guilty of the spiritual impoverishment of the individuals, of their intellectual sterility, of the stifling of their personal duty, as well as of the creativity and inventiveness with which our people have been endowed. When they are treated as objects, deprived of their dignity, locked up in existentialist structures which do not suit them, paralized by the fear of the repressive regime, . Human beings end up behaving as objects. You are responsible for the physical debility of millions of citizens whom you have constrained through unheard of deprivations – of foodstuff, of heating, of medicines. The degrading of the human factor (the subversion of values, the egocentrism, the corruption) has jointly contributed, together with your political and economic errors, to the decadence of institutions, to the bankruptcy of trade and Industry, to the ruin of agriculture. Furthermore, you are also responsible for the demolition of churches and of prestigious historical monuments, of the falsifying and destruction of our past and lately of the destruction of our villages and of our rural traditions. In the historical past, our princes were building churches, after each military victory and perhaps sometime even after their defeat. You yourself, you are demolishing them, instead.”
(Doina Cornea (b. 1930), University Lecturer, Dissident)
(Open Letter to Nicolae Ceausescu, 23rd August 1988,
broadcast the same day on “Radio Free Europe” and published in Doina Cornea’s “Liberte?”, Eds Criterion, Paris, 1990)

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“Despre Faustul lui Nae Ionescu” (Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba)

October 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Diaspora, International Media, OPINION, PEOPLE, quotations, Reviews, Uncategorized

Emil Cioran observase într-un articol din 1937 că la prelegerile de logică ţinute de Nae Ionescu, “parcă s-a rătăcit un plâns de clopote într-un tratat de logică” (v. Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba, În labirintul răsfrângerilor. Nae Ionescu prin discipolii săi:P.Ţuţea, Cioran,Noica, Eliade, M. Vulcănescu, Vasile Băncilă, Slobozia, Ed. Star Tipp, 2000, ISBN 973-81340506, p.46). Pentru că indiferent de cursul pe care îl preda, fie de logică, de metafizică sau de teoria cunoştinţei, profesorul ştia foarte bine să deschidă un orizont religios, un orizont metafizic. Asta l-a impresionat desigur şi pe Mircea Eliade. Ceea ce Eliade a strâns în volumul Roza vânturilor (1937), toate acele articole pe teme religioase sînt extraordinar de interesante. În prelegerile despre Problema salvării la Faust, Nae Ionescu luase drept repere de interpretare unele dintre ideile cursurilor predate în anii anteriori. M. Eliade scrisese în postfaţa volumului din 1937 că Nae Ionescu a “adus un suflu nou în universitate”. Universităţile noastre erau cumva pe calapod francez. Ele târau după ele toată atmosfera aceea îngustă spiritual a scientismului din secolul XIX. Nae Ionescu a adus în Universitatea bucureşteană o deschidere spre religie. Era un lucru de care tocmai se simţea nevoie. Secolul dinainte fusese raţionalist şi apoi a venit spontan interesul acesta pentru religie. Nu numai la noi, ci în toată Europa [atât la protestanţi cât şi la catolici].

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