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18 décembre 2009

20 de Ani de Libertate

Please listen to the memorial concert 20 de Ani de Libertate in Timisoara on radio Timisoara at 18h today...and then explore the site. The Verdi Requiem, poetry... wish we could hear it here, but the waves stop at Helsinki! Love, Sarah

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18 décembre 2009

Bucuresti de altadata

This is lovely. Thank you, Dan, so much, for this brief voyage into the past...

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9 décembre 2009

Save Plural - relaunched!

The fate of Plural magazine is still under the axe and awaiting a conclusion. Just in case any of you still haven't written to support its survival, you can still do so addressing your mails to icr@icr.ro and for the attention of Horia Roman Patapievici,...

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9 décembre 2009

Article from WSJ

Recession Bad, Communism Worse in Romania It appears that economic liberalism won a squeaker against the heirs to Nicolae Ceausescu's communists By the narrowest of margins Sunday, Romania seems to have returned incumbent President Traian Basescu to office....

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6 décembre 2009

Herta on Goethe

Dear Everyone, Here's an excellent article on Herta Muller found on the Goethe Institute site. For fifteen years Ceausescu’s henchmen and their successors “made me the object of a manhunt”, Müller wrote in 2003 in her volume of essays entitled Der König...

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4 décembre 2009

Keep Plural Magazine Alive! Sign This

Dear Everyone, Please, please PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE help keep Plural Magazine alive. I couldn't bear it if it died. It is one of the only magazines in the English language for the expat and anglophone community living in Roumania (and available online for...

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2 décembre 2009

so sad...

Dear Everyone, I would like to share a story with you I have just heard that has stunned me into gobsmacked mode. Two old school friends, both aged early seventies and living in Bucharest decided to meet for lunch as they often do. One, whom we shall...

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1 décembre 2009

Unification Day - 1st December

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30 novembre 2009

Expropriation victims - outrageous

Look, everyone...look what's happened to people expropriated at Basarab to make way for new construction... it is unbelievable. I wonder whether my coffee is too strong and I am hallucinating. The couple in the film (click on blue link above) were thrown...

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30 novembre 2009

Doina Cornea victim of burglary

Such shameful foulness... Doina Cornea robbed???? It's like robbing Mother Teresa. How can anyone do such a thing??? Such a brave and determined woman who fought so hard against the oppression, cruelty, mental paralysis and cultural decapitation under...

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30 novembre 2009

Book recommendation - "Dracula is Dead"

Dear Everyone, I cannot comment on the article below as I haven't read the book. However, London seems to be quite taken with it and it's reported to be the long overdue reference to Roumania we've all been waiting for. If it's a history book by which...

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30 novembre 2009

One house dies as two more are racked with sobs

Horror. Absolute horror. It doesn't matter whether there's an election or not, does it. I should stop kidding myself. People don't behave any better even during election campaigns. There has been yet MORE destruction in Bucharest. Yet more obliteration...

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11 novembre 2009

Gheorghe Dinica - loved by everyone

A sad and heartfelt farewell to this wonderful and much loved actor. It has been a tragic year for Roumanian theatre indeed. The following from Yahoo News: Gheorghe Dinica, well known Romanian actor, dies By ALISON MUTLER, Associated Press Writer – Tue...

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8 novembre 2009

Bucovina - World Heritage

Thank you NYT for the article below: NYT: Bucovina, the place where art and faith embrace E-mail Print PDF The Bucovina region in the far north of the country, wrote the Romanian scholar Silviu Sanie, is “one of those blessed realms where sacred and secular...

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6 novembre 2009

Tudor Banus - Exhibition in Paris 8è

Bucharest born Tudor Banus: Painter, artist, engraver, author, book (see pix right - "The Muppet Show Book" by its inventor and "Particularly Cats" by Doris Lessing) and press illustrator whilst also being a friend of mine (which certainly adds to your...

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6 novembre 2009

Smart specs!

Wow! Just think how much easier life could be with a pair of these! I'd put them on your Christmas list if I were you! This from the BBC: Smart spectacles aid translation The spectacles are due to go on sale in Japan in 2010 Spectacles that can provide...

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5 novembre 2009

The Pig Flu Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Dear Everyone, This whole 'flu' issue is becoming way too complicated....what are we supposed to think? There's H1N1, Novel and Swine Flu viruses and noone seems to know which is which or whether they are all the same or...which one has a curly tail and...

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4 novembre 2009

More on Herta Muller

The Passport and Nadirs by Herta Müller The Nobel prizewinner has yet to convince Tibor Fischer of her artistry Tibor Fischer The Guardian , Saturday 24 October 2009 The Passport by Herta Müller , translated by Martin Chalmers 99pp, Serpent's Tail, £7.99...

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31 octobre 2009

Happy Hallowe'en!

Check out how they celebrate Hallowe'en in Manhattan!

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30 octobre 2009

Nelly Sachs

My discovery of Roumanian-German poets has been fascinating so far: Herta Muller, Oscar Pastior, Paul Celan. Celan led me to Nelly Sachs, who wasn't Roumanian at all, but pure German...and Jewish, so I veer off course for a post, simply because I cannot...

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