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SUMAR NR. 66 Pagini autobiografice Ion Vianu – Exerciţiu de sinceritate (III) Aharon Appelfeld – Povestea unei vieţi Dincolo de eveniment Adam Michnik – Ultraradicalii revoluţiei morale Paulo Moura – Portugalia văzută de pe a doua şosea importantă a

SUMAR NR. 67 Pagini autobiografice José Saramago – Fărâme de memorii Ion Vianu – Exerciţiu de sinceritate (IV) Dincolo de eveniment Linda Polman – Victimele carităţii Mircea Vasilescu – Italia: între vechile ideologii şi noile probleme Adam Michnik

Principele Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), cunoscut Europei întregi pentru erudiţia sa, odată ales membru al Academiei din Berlin (1714) a primit din partea acestui înalt forum rugămintea să le înfăţişeze Apusenilor atât stările de lucru din Imperiul Otoman, cât

Peeled off plaster, broken windows, rats scuttling at ease day and night. And above all, the filth. Complete and utter filth reigning supreme over a piece of downtown Bucharest. But also over a piece of our past. The only part still living is the sign above the door, reading

I no longer love Bucharest. I'm no longer hoping something can be done about this dump of Europe An interview with Mircea Cărtărescu by Ion Longin Popescu Slowly but surely, the old, historic Bucharest – the little that was left after Ceauşescu's demolishing

Revolution Square Last time when Bucharest was flooded, when in some districts the water rose as high as half of the Dacia car parked on the sidewalk, none of the Romanian reporters or newscasters failed to draw a comparison between our capital and a “European” one.

Grigore Antipa Museum of Natural History Having returned to the country after finishing his studies his studies and his PhD. thesis, awarded summa cum laude at the famous University of Jena, on 1 April 1893 Dr. Grigore Antipa was appointed director of the Zoology department

Richard Rogers Partnership proposal, 1996People's House (Parliament) After 1989: Methods of researching the built environmentResearching Communist architecture is a tricky endeavor in contemporary Romania, where some major actors of that era are still alive, some even

Me sucedió en esta vida la cosa más triste posible: de poeta he llegado a ser autor. Creo que fui un poeta verdadero alguna vez, en mi adolescencia, cuando aún no había publicado – y, salvo mi diario íntimo, tampoco había escrito – nada. Es mi estado ideal, perdido

Ceci est un fait-divers atroce. Les Mémoires du Bal-Mabille There are dreams we seem to have lived sometime long ago, somewhere, as well as things we lived about which we ask whether they were not a dream. That's what I was thinking of yesterday evening when, rummaging

The early-20th-century major Romanian art is not a block, but a very particular construction of intertwined cultural layers. One could not affirm that the most fertile and valuable Modern cultural period of this country was characterized by a certain, homogenous Romanian

excerptStanding in front of the Corso building on Calea Victoriei one day, he felt someone's familiar gaze follow him from across the street, as if to catch his eye. He crossed over, as though answering a call, and discovered a picture of Ann among several other portraits