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30 juillet 2008

More news on Casa Nenitescu

De ar Everyone, The more I dig, the more I find, and the more depressed I get. The owner, says Dan Ghelase, President of Artrad, is a Spanish Real Estate company who bought it with view to demolish in order to construct a 'spectacular' (??) twenty storey...

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29 juillet 2008

Casa Nenitescu in ruins

It is truly horrifying to see that beautiful house on str. Scoalei, 8 in such a terrible state, looted and vandalised repeatedly as it stands there empty, its fate uncertain. A battle to save the house has been ongoing for the last year. In February of...

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22 juillet 2008

Lena Constante

Lena Constante, Roumanian artist, essayist and memoirist, known for her work in stage design and tapestry, was born in Bucharest, daughter of an Aromanian journalist (immigrated from Macedonia) and his Roumanian wife, in 1909. Her family's peregrinations...

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21 juillet 2008

The Book of Departing, by Sanda Golopentia

The unthinkable pain of exile, the ripping away of all that is known and taking a leap off a precipice into the unknown...How Sanda Golopentia explains this with profound insight, depth and first-hand knowledge. It almost had me in tears, as I thought...

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20 juillet 2008

Virgil Ierunca

Virgil Ierunca (1920-2006) was a Roumanian philosopher, poet and literary critic, who also wrote under the pseudonym Virgil Untaru. He was utterly opposed to the communist regime under Gheorghe-Dej who came into power after the second world war. His works...

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17 juillet 2008

Walk with Mihai

Dear Everyone, Today, having spent a morning teaching and helping Tantza white-wash her little flat, I met Mihai at Pta Romana for a walk with Rosie. We began meandering our way down to str. Ion Campaneanu with the intention of visiting the roads adjacent...

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13 juillet 2008

George Bratianu

This Romanian family really is an incredible one. Every member is fascinating, their lives mostly sad, mostly terribly unjust. The Bratianu's (of which Ileana von Kripp's mother, Maria Emanuelle dit 'Manola' is a member, and thus Ileana herself, also...

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12 juillet 2008

Barbu Stirbey and Ileana von Kripp

Dear Everybody, The time has come to tell you a little about another colourful Roumanian personality, Prince Barbu Stirbey (1873-1946). Why? Well, frankly why not. And because he was quite a character. His mother was Maria Ghika-Comanesti (important to...

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11 juillet 2008

Angels, Aurors and Duchesses

Dear Everybody, Just when I think I should be getting to bed and that, really, I should turn off the computer, I remember I have more to tell you. I already said that I'd met Nicole's great and much loved friend, Nely, last Friday for tea in a café on...

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10 juillet 2008

Corneliu M. Popescu

Born in 1958, Corneliu is by far my favourite translator of Eminescu to date (my apologies to all others who have tried). When I first arrived in Bucharest all those years ago, I decided that to understand the Romanian soul, I would have to study its...

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8 juillet 2008

The 4 Friends Identified!

I went for a walk on Thursday beginning with the memorial house of George Calinescu (literary critic, author, historian to name a few of the strings to his bow). It's a lovely little house comprising of two rooms, books from floor to ceiling and paintings...

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2 juillet 2008

Walk with Mihai, str. Paris and other gems

Dear Everyone, I saw Mihai yesterday for a Nicole Tour...and he knew everything before I had to say a word! 6, str. Biserica Amzei is still up for sale (left)...looks like no one fancies it, but if anyone would like to give it to me for Christmas, that's...

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