Romanian writers on writing
"The eighty writers collected here explore the special tensions found in Romanian literature, conferred by vanity doubled by vitality, vulnerability mixed in with force, and the fear of dissolution linked with the desperate pride of defeating historical time. The contributors exemplify the powe...
| Other Authors: | Manea, Norman., Cordoș, Sanda. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
San Antonio, Tex. :
Trinity University Press,
[2011]
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 319 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series: |
Writer's world (San Antonio, Tex.)
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
"The eighty writers collected here explore the special tensions found in Romanian literature, conferred by vanity doubled by vitality, vulnerability mixed in with force, and the fear of dissolution linked with the desperate pride of defeating historical time. The contributors exemplify the powerful, polyphonic voice of their country's complex literature"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. "The eighty writers collected here explore the special tensions found in Romanian literature, conferred by vanity doubled by vitality, vulnerability mixed in with force, and the fear of dissolution linked with the desperate pride of defeating historical time. The contributors exemplify the powerful, polyphonic voice of their country's complex literature"--Provided by publisher. The Personality of the Creator / To My Critics ; Mihai Eminescu -- from Some Opinions / from Letter ; Ion Luca Caragiale -- from Autobiography ; Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu -- Cuts on the Arm of the Pen ; Tudor Arghezi -- Gloss / Enough ; George Bacovia -- from Adrian Zografi ; Panait Istrati -- from Remember ; Mateiu I. Caragiale -- from Confessions ; Liviu Rebreanu -- from Procrustes' Bed ; Camil Petrescu -- To My Readers / Self-Portrait / Biography ; Lucian Blaga -- Notes from a Literary Confession ; Ion Barbu -- It Evenings / Introduction to Don Quixote ; Tristan Tzara -- from A Few Wild Words ; Benjamin Fundoianu/Benjamin Fondane -- On Writing and Writers ; Mircea Eliade -- from The Curse of Writing ; Mihail Sebastian -- from The Lucent Den ; Max Blecher -- from An Inner Daimon ; Octav Sulutiu -- from When I Write ; Eugene Ionesco/Eugen Ionescu -- from Advantages of Exile ; E.M. Cioran -- Tragedies That Must Occur ; Gherasim Luca -- from White of the Bone ; Gellu Naum -- from God Was Born in Exile ; Vintila Horia -- Not to Forget ... ; Ion D. Sirbu -- Partisan of the Erotical Absolute / Perhaps One Day ; Paul Celan -- Assyriology (The Library of Clay Books) ; Alexandru Sever -- from The Writer and the Word ; Marin Preda -- from The Syllable Hatter ; Ion Caraion -- from The Team Passing Through the World ; Constantin Toiu -- The Immigration Department ; Nina Cassian -- Cognitio Incogniti ; Petru Dumitriu -- The Noble Fool of Totality ; Leonid Dimov -- The Second Love ; Octavian Paler -- Ill from Unwritten Books ; Radu Petrescu -- from Wanda, or the Interpretation Syndrome ; Mircea Horia Simionescu -- from My Art Was Born from Fear ; Radu Cosasu -- from The Text Writes Itself ; Mircea Ivanescu -- from My Soul, Psyche / The Poet, Like the Soldier ; Nichita Stanescu -- Prisoner or Master of Language? ; Nora Iuga -- Why Do I Write? What Do I Believe In? ; Nicolae Breban -- from Writing and Reading of Vice Versa ; Matei Calinescu -- Stanzas / The Dance with the Book / That Which Remains ; Florin Mugur -- from The Colors of the Rainbow ; Paul Goma -- from The Raft on the Crest of the Wave ; George Balaita -- How to Be a Fakir / House under Surveillance ; Marin Sorescu -- Praise of the Anonymous ; Dumitru Tepeneag -- from Existence Starts to Gain Density ; Cezar Baltag -- from Letter to Lucian Raicu ; Emil Brumaru -- from The Story of a Title ; Virgil Duda -- from Fear of Literature ; Ana Blandiana -- from Literature as Religion and Fear ; Gabriela Adamesteanu -- Preface / Honey on the Tongue ; Virgil Mazilescu -- from To Write ; Gabriela Melinescu -- Bi-Lingual ; Andrei Codrescu -- from Toward a Liberal Grammar ; Stefan Agopian -- Horozontal Man ; Mircea Nedelciu -- Night ; Ioan Petru Culianu -- from I Am Always Behind ; Alexandru Vlad -- from The Body Knows More ; Gheorghe Craciun -- The Art of Seduction / La Femme Poison ; Floarea Tutuianu -- The Poetry of the Everyday ; Alexandru Musina -- The Ladder / Night Letter to Tame My Beloved ; Marta Petreu -- Life Undone by Poetry/ The Poem That Cannot Be Understood ; Ion Muresan -- I Am Not So Sure ; Magda Carneci -- Kitty (or the Great Fear has come) ; Mariana Marin -- A Giant Drop of Water Reflecting a Chimera ; Mircea Cartarescu -- To Write in Despair ; Razvan Petrescu -- The Falling Crumbs / Like Clothes Grown Too Large ; Matei Visniec -- from The Power of Words ; Carmen Firan -- Madness and the Art of Writing ; Bodgan Ghiu -- from Gruelingly Squeezed Light ; Cristian Popescu -- The Flooded Submarine ; Ruxandra Cesereanu -- The Pact with Yourself: Opus or Life? ; Simona Popescu -- Writing and the Culinary Predilections of My Grandfather ; Filip Florian -- How Should I Write? ; Florina Ilis -- The Path to the Other ; Doina Ioanid -- How I Did Not Become a Genius ; Dan Lungu -- from The Secret Code: Notes for a Literary Confession ; Bogdan Suceava -- Our Special Envoy ; Florin Lazarescu -- A Sort of Jogging ; Ana Maria Sandu -- Character ; Lucian Dan Teodorovici. |
| Physical Description: |
xii, 319 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781595340825 1595340823 |