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13 mai 2008

Monday Evening

Dear All, Brigitte and I arrived at the 21 Dec Association, 24a Str. Batistei (pic left), slap bang opposite the old Securitate building, to discover that everyone had left. But never mind! Carmen Dorotheea (pic right with Brigitte) was there manning...

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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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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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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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7 mai 2008

Rocky Horror Comes To Bucharest!

Dear Everyone, Look what I just found! I'm sooooo excited! At laaaaaast! 29th May is a Thursday, though, so I'll be nose to grindstone...however, that's the premiere. Hopefully there'll be weekend shows, too. Oh...wow! But how to sing The Time Warp in...

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11 mai 2008

For Rumiana Mestrovic

Dear Prof. Mestrovic, Thank you so much for posting your comment on my blog re: the new statue of Carol I at Pta Revolutiei. I'm very flattered that you took the time to do so and would like to know if you would mind my putting it where my readers can...

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28 décembre 2007

Christmas with Mariana, the Winter Festival and back to Bucharest

Wow! What an incredible Christmas it's been! It all began with a night train to Cluj. After a student breakfast of coffee, bread and nutella, we hit the road and made it to Sighet in four and a half hours. Mariana was waiting with a huge lunch (the shape...

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2 janvier 2008

Happy New Year!

Dear Everyone, I hope you all had a lovely end of the old year and a joyful start to the new. My 2007 ended beautifully with Lidia, Manny, Nick, Rodica and Lidia's mum in Brasov. I've never liked New Year as there are so many loved and lost I miss at...

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31 mai 2008

Criticism from Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet 2008 Guide: Foreign tourists who visit Romania are advised to avoid pickpockets, taxi drivers without taximeters and stray dogs by Radu Rizea HotNews.ro Miercuri, 28 mai 2008, 9:51 English | Bucharest "Thieves, taxi drivers who don't use...

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10 avril 2008

Magdalena Radulescu

Dear Everybody With nothing else to do coz I still feel like varza, (Aura called to see if I wanted to pop round and keep her company in str. Drobeta while she finished packing up her old office, but even that I couldn't manage - pathetic!) I've been...

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11 avril 2008

Micul Paris!

Dear Everyone, Today, Rosie and I went for a wonderful walk, a Nicole Tour (the first of many, I have the distinct feeling!), planned by Nicole herself in faraway Connecticut, USA. I received a fabulously detailed e-mail yesterday with an itinerary of...

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30 avril 2008

Good Question:

Commentary: Why Does Monica Lovinescu Matter? Radio Free Europe By Vladimir Tismaneanu Monica Lovinescu (GNU) (Monica Lovinescu, a Paris-based literary critic and journalist who encouraged intellectual resistance to Romania's communist regime from the...

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10 avril 2008

Some music for you

During our time in Sibiu, Flori wrote a horde of Roumanian musicians on Rosie's train ticket so I could go and discover them on Youtubes. As I'm staying home today, it's the perfect opportunity. I wanted to share some real gems with you. The first Romica...

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29 mars 2008

Marin Sorescu

Dear Everyone, I've just discovered the poet Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) and his translated book of poetry 'Hands Behind My Back'. Here's one for you that hit my right between the eyes. GETTING USED TO YOUR NAME After you've learned to walk,Tell one thing...

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18 mars 2008

Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition

Dear Everyone, Thanks to Lucia, I'm listening to the Arthur Rubinstein (pictured left) Piano Competition live on internet (I'm such a 'varza' that she had to lead me through the site step by step and even then it took ages to download what I was meant...

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5 mars 2008

Art Jazz Club

Dear Everybody I've just got back from the most wonderful evening at the Art Jazz Club tucked behind the Orizont Art Gallery in B-dul N. Bâlcescu, where one of Flori's ex-students is lead singer in a marvellous band of a strange mixture of Celtic and...

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31 août 2007

Day out in Bucharest

Had a wonderful touristic day today (haven't had timez since I arrived so I revelled in it) and thought you'd like to see the photos of the places I visited in this wonderful, vibrant city! My feet are killing me. I started off at Dinu Lipatti's house...

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8 octobre 2010

Marinescu investigated - better late than never?

Good news, I hope - Marinescu, after 6 weeks for Florentina behind bars, has been taken in for questioning - with his lawyer in tow of course. I am under no illusion that he will also be eating gruel for breakfast for one can be sure it will not be the...

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25 avril 2010

Legion d'honeur for Norman Manea

This from Nine O'Clock Norman Manea receives French Legion of Honour distinction 26.04.10 | by: Nine oClock | in: culture After receiving worldwide accolades and a lot of cultural distinctions, Romanian-born writer Norman Manea was recently knighted by...

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24 août 2008

Todea

In relation to article below: Oh, what a pile of absolute piffle! And as DaniK says in her comments on Ziua (amongst other things), what possessed the journalist to choose THAT particular photo - so relaxed, so self assured, and if that's a sorry face,...

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15 janvier 2011

More on Pierre Michel

News on the little boy sold in Alfortville, France: Pierre Michel was taken from Fiuruta Lingurar by the French Child Protection Office and is currently in care in Alfortville. It appears that Lingurar (ex-Zimbru) was arrested in Timisoara as she got...

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30 décembre 2009

article by Ion Vianu

Viewpoint from Ion Vianu printed in Nine O'Clock : 1989-2009: from tyranny to oligarchy published in issue 4588 page 4 at 2009-12-29 On December 22, 1989, Ceausescu relinquished the power he had held on to so tightly for twenty-four years and an illegal...

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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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8 avril 2009

Romania to blame again....

Ca ne va pas du tout... ...and there's a certain déjà vu is there not. This, from BBC Press below: Victoria Nissan wrote: Romania blamed over Moldova riots Moldova's president has accused neighbouring Romania of stoking the protests that erupted into...

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