A Legendary Love Story: Maria Cantacuzino - George Enescu
One should add to the romantic universe of Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt and Wagner the love story of Maria Cantacuzino and the composer George Enescu, as the mystery of its extraordinary tension has been revealed in the recently published Ombres et lumières, Souvenirs d'une
Mrs. Pipersberg's Boarding House
The book about fleshexcerpt I absolutely have to tell you in detail everything that happened in my wedding bed, on which we lay down as though on an operating table, Ferdinand Sinidis grumpily intervened. I really want to stick to the subject, although it might seem that
Maitreyi
excerpt When I came back from the town, I found a note on my table: Come to the library! I met Maitreyi, who told me, terrified: Khokha knows!I tried to look undisturbed and to persuade her that it didn't mean anything. Maitreyi stared at me, clasping my hands, as
Miss Christina
XVMiss Christina stood there, very close to him, with her breasts uncovered, her hair loose, waiting. Egor, you're humiliating me! he could hear her thoughts. Turn off the lamp, come closer!Egor tried in vain to resist. He could feel Miss Christina's command in
Return To The Interwar Bucharest
excerpts So closeSuddenly, the interwar people make the body visible: men are allowed to shave off not only their beards, but also their moustaches – a facial change that overthrows an aesthetic canon with centuries-old resistance – and women, punished and ridiculed
The Images Of The Nations. Ethnic And Ethic Characteristics
* The boom of geographic discoveries and trading expeditions that began on the eve of the Renaissance and continued throughout that era developed a new taste for describing remote, if not downright imaginary, countries and peoples. Before being discovered, the savage was
The Albanian Bucharest: From Merchant Elites To Cultural Elites
excerpts The gradual development of a cultural Moldo-Walachian elite of Albanian origin, that was able to manifest an awareness of the cultural identity of its origins through certain activities in this respect, an elite devoted to the idea of a modern and independent Albania,
Unitas In Pluralitate, Ou L'Europe En Son Entier
L'Europe, mais c'est une chose terrible et sainte, l'Europe. Dostoïevski (Journal d'un écrivain) Tout aussi bien, j'aurais pu dire: l'Europe, ou le refus des alternatives mutilantes. Car, depuis bientôt trois millénaires et demi – si
Les Principautés Roumaines
LES FANARIOTES DANS LES PRINCIPAUTES ET LES PREMIERES RELATIONS DES MOLDO-VALAQUES AVEC LES RUSSESAprès la prise de Constantinople par Mahomet II, les Grecs du Fanar, habitants de cette ville, et d'autres Grecs de la Roumélie, émigrèrent dans les différentes contrées
Souvenirs Et Impressions D'un Proscrit
1850 Arrivé enfin à la frontière de la France, pays des libertés, on descend à la douane. Je dus me soumettre à toutes les inquisitions. On cherche dans mon coffre, dans mon sac de nuit, dans ma giberne, dans mes poches!Ici on soupçonne trop, plus qu'ailleurs,
De L’influence Française Sur L’esprit Public En Roumanie
INTRODUCTION L'exemple d'influence, que nous nous proposons d'étudier ici, présente des caractères bien particuliers. Il faut bannir de son esprit, pour le bien comprendre, le souvenir de tout autre fait historique que l'on serait tenté de juger analogue.
Bucarest-Paris, Aller Simple
Soulignant l'apport des écrivains, dramaturges, poètes venus de la sœur latine roumaine, Robert Sabatier fait cette remarque, dans le 6-ème tome de sa monumentale Histoire de la poésie française, celui consacré au XX-ème siècle: . . . mais il est vrai que