The Observer, in short
Lead article
Ovidiu Simonca writes: the problem of Milan Kundera’s putative collaboration with Securitate pales in comparison with the prevailing disinterest in the political past.
Politics
Ciprian Ciucu notes: recent disclosures of public servants’ salaries belong to Romania’s developing interest in social equity.
Bedros Horasangian remarks: the debate over public servants’ salaries adds fire power to political confrontations.
Didier Chaudet, Florent Parmentier and Benoit Pelopidas publish an article on the Age of the Great Powers. Chaudet, Parmentier and Pelopidas’ will publish Imperiul in Oglinda. Strategii de mare putere in Statele Unite si in Rusia (The Empire in the Mirror: Great Power Strategies in the US and Russia), at Cartier, in Gabriela Sicovan’s translation from the French.
Interview
Ovidiu Simonca interviews actor Marcel Iures on the 10th birthday of Act Theatre.
Latest
Mihai Plamadeala goes to the first MedievArt Festival in Tirgu Mures, from October 3 through October 5.
Book reviews
Paul Cernat publishes an abridged version of his preface to Gabriela Adamesteanu’s Gara de est. Intilnirea (Eastern Station. The Encounter, Iasi: Polirom, 2008).
Andreea Rasuceanu comments on G.I. Ionnescu-Gion’s Nicolae P. Mavrogheni: “O pozna a firii” (Nicolae P. Mavrogheni: “Nature’s Joke.” Bucharest: Compania, 2008).
Literary history
Geo Serban takes us back to 1947 with discoveries relating to Revista Literara, a postwar review.
Fragments from a Forthcoming Publication
The Observer publishes an excerpt from Stelian Tanase’s Maestro, soon to be published by Polirom.
The Observer invites us to The Polish Theatre’s Days at the Odeon Theatre. Maciej Nowak signs the lead article. Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk publishes the text of the play Moartea Omului-Veverita (Death of the Squirrel-Man, translated by Sabra Daici). Roman Pawlowski offers an excerpt from his preface to the modern Made in Poland, an anthology of modern Polish drama. The theatre festival takes place between October 20 and October 23.
International
Monica Joita discusses the 5th Complex Systems Conference – ECCS 2008 (http://jeruccs2008.org/conference-main) at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which took place from September 10 through September 19.
Radu Jorgensen publishes the 2nd part of his article on teaching math in America.
Arts
Film
Mihai Fulger goes to Anim’est International Animation Film Festival, at the Scala and Elvira Popescu cinemas, from October 3 through October 12.
Ileana Birsan comments on Petre Nastase’s Dragoste pierduta (Lost Love), which premiered on October 10.
Museum
Cosmin Ungureanu continues his reportorial museum tour with a stop at the Rodin Museum in Paris.
Music
Anca Florea goes to George Enescu’s Oedipe at the Bucharest National Opera, which opened on October 3.
Florian Baiculescu goes to Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, on stage at the Athenaeum on October 2 and 3 and to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 at Sala Radio on October 3.
Focus
Silvia Dumitrache tells us about the 3rd “Stories for Children and Grown-Up” Theatre Festival in Alba Iulia, which ran from October 8 through October 12.
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