The Observer, in short
Lead article
Doina Ioanid laments the Christmas/Easter vacation syndrome.
Politics
Ciprian Ciucu and Ciprian Stanescu call for legal remedies to a practice that comes close to buying votes as politicians around the country sweeten electors with goody bags stuffed with cigarette lighters, chocolate eggs and panetonne.
Bedros Horasangian reminds us that Romania’s local elections are not a competition between political personalities but between parties.
Events
Norman Manea, Orhan Pamuk and Antonio Tabucch visited Bucharest in late April and early May. Ovidiu Simonca interviews Norman Manea and Orhan Pamuk. Cristian Cercel interviews Antonio Tabucchi.
Latest
Emilia Postolache and Mihai Mindra describe Diaspora Cultures: Majority and Minority in Jewish-Romanian and Jewish-American Literature, a year-long project that opened with a first debate in the Council Room at the Faculty of Foreign Languages in Bucharest, on March 28.
Book reviews
Adina Dinitoiu reads Petru Cimpoesu’s Noua proze vechi. Fictiuni ilicite (Nine Old Stories : Illicit Fictions, Iasi: Polirom, 2008).
Paul Cernat presents Bogdan Suceava’s Miruna, o poveste (Miruna, a Story, Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2007).
Restitutio Benjamin Fondane
The Observer publishes a letter sent by Genevieve Fondane to Maritain, dated July 18, 1945 and a second sent by Maritain to G. Fondane, dated July 19, 1945. Luiza Palanciuc signes the selections, the notes and the translation, all from Fondane-Maritain, Correspondance de Benjamin et Genevieve Fondane avec Jacques et Raissa Maritain : textes réunis et annotés par Michel Carassou et Rene Mougel, Paris, editions Paris-Mediterranee, Collection “Cachet Volant,” 1997.
Interview
Andreea Rasuceanu interviews professor and novelist Francois Vallejo, whose Madame Angeloso (2001) was nominated for the Goncourt Award in 2003.
International
Dan Petrila looks at the 10th Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, which ran from April 18 through April 26.
Zully Mustafa presents the 45th International Children’s Book Fair, which took place in Bologna, Italy, from March 31 through April 4.
Monica Salvan comments on the first international meeting of Romanian literary translators. The meeting took place in Paris at the Romanian Cultural Institute on April 21 and 22.
Arts
Theatre
Liviu Ornea presents the opening of G. B. Shaw’s The Great Catherine (1913) at the Bucharest National Theatre on April 20.
Iulia Popovici comments on Mihaela Michailov’s Complexul Romania (The Romania Complex) at the Bucharest National Theatre on April 18.
Film
Mihai Fulger presents the 5th IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival, which took place in Lisbon between April 24 and May 4.
Visual arts
Mihai Plamadeala looks at Stefan Caltia’s Drawings at Herina, presented at the Evangelical Church in Herina, Bistrita County. The show is on view from May
Maria-Magdalena Crisan looks at Gheorghe Iliescu-Calinesti’s sculpture and drawings at Veroniki Art Gallery. The show runs from April 17 through May 18.
Music
Florian Baiculescu talks about Cesar Franck’s Sonata for Violin and Piano.
Alexandru Sipa goes to the 3rd Jazzy Spring festival, which runs in Bucharest from May 7 through May 20.
Focus
Corina Petroff sounds off on the destruction around Negoesti Monastery, which was raised by Matei Basarab in the 17th century. Oblivious to the past, locals use it as a garbage dump.
Adina Dinitoiu reads Petru Cimpoesu’s Noua proze vechi. Fictiuni ilicite (Nine Old Stories : Illicit Fictions, Iasi: Polirom, 2008).
Paul Cernat presents Bogdan Suceava’s Miruna, o poveste (Miruna, a Story, Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2007).
Restitutio Benjamin Fondane
The Observer publishes a letter sent by Genevieve Fondane to Maritain, dated July 18, 1945 and a second sent by Maritain to G. Fondane, dated July 19, 1945. Luiza Palanciuc signes the selections, the notes and the translation, all from Fondane-Maritain, Correspondance de Benjamin et Genevieve Fondane avec Jacques et Raissa Maritain : textes réunis et annotés par Michel Carassou et Rene Mougel, Paris, editions Paris-Mediterranee, Collection “Cachet Volant,” 1997.
Interview
Andreea Rasuceanu interviews professor and novelist Francois Vallejo, whose Madame Angeloso (2001) was nominated for the Goncourt Award in 2003.
International
Dan Petrila looks at the 10th Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, which ran from April 18 through April 26.
Zully Mustafa presents the 45th International Children’s Book Fair, which took place in Bologna, Italy, from March 31 through April 4.
Monica Salvan comments on the first international meeting of Romanian literary translators. The meeting took place in Paris at the Romanian Cultural Institute on April 21 and 22.
Arts
Theatre
Liviu Ornea presents the opening of G. B. Shaw’s The Great Catherine (1913) at the Bucharest National Theatre on April 20.
Iulia Popovici comments on Mihaela Michailov’s Complexul Romania (The Romania Complex) at the Bucharest National Theatre on April 18.
Film
Mihai Fulger presents the 5th IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival, which took place in Lisbon between April 24 and May 4.
Visual arts
Mihai Plamadeala looks at Stefan Caltia’s Drawings at Herina, presented at the Evangelical Church in Herina, Bistrita County. The show is on view from May
Maria-Magdalena Crisan looks at Gheorghe Iliescu-Calinesti’s sculpture and drawings at Veroniki Art Gallery. The show runs from April 17 through May 18.
Music
Florian Baiculescu talks about Cesar Franck’s Sonata for Violin and Piano.
Alexandru Sipa goes to the 3rd Jazzy Spring festival, which runs in Bucharest from May 7 through May 20.
Focus
Corina Petroff sounds off on the destruction around Negoesti Monastery, which was raised by Matei Basarab in the 17th century. Oblivious to the past, locals use it as a garbage dump.
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