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Under the Sign of "East-Ethics": Monica Lovinescu between "Indirect Diaries" and the Essential Literary Diary

SUB SEMNUL „EST-ETICII”: MONICA LOVINESCU, ÎNTRE „JURNALELE INDIRECTE” ŞI JURNALUL ESENTIAL

Author(s): Alina Crihană / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 14/2013

Keywords: personal writing; „east-ethical” revisionism; „(auto)biographical ideology”; narrative identity; „duty of memory”

To the average reader and, generally speaking, to the Romanian intellectuals who experienced the totalitarian regime, Monica Lovinescu’s figure has been always related to an important phenomenon defining an outstanding resistance pole: ‘Radio Free Europe’ –where from Eugen Lovinescu’s daughter, exiled to Paris shortly after the so-called Soviet ‘liberation’ of 1944, has been broadcasting her literary and cultural debates for over thirty years – definitely represents a genuine catalyst of anti-totalitarian dissidence and militant movement. Actively involved in the anti-communist fight, Monica Lovinescu has directly dedicated her existence in exile to supporting the Romanian intellectual elite which has been influenced by so many ‘historical cataclysms’, as it has been confirmed in her recurrent reflections inserted both in her personal writings and the ‘indirect diaries’ – Undele scurte / Radio Short-waves –approaching mainly Romanian literature under totalitarian regime. As for the reader interested in finding the ideological motivation of the post-totalitarian literary battles (and, by extension, the cultural ones), Monica Lovinescu’s name is representative for the revisionist movement whose contemporary followers in search for symbolic legitimacy could but take advantage of the incontestable charisma of their mentor. In this perspective, one can notice the discrepancy occurring between the often inconsistent contemporary revisionist approaches (but always legitimised by the overt or covert reference to the model) and Monica Lovinescu’s opinions voiced out during a life-long cultural career serving the ‘east-ethical’ ideology. It seems to be the major coordinate founding both the militant activity and life (which are genuinely compatible) of E. Lovinescu’s daughter: mostly important, it is not compatible with the virulent denial of the aesthetic values self-defining the Post-War literary canon, despite of Monica Lovinescu’s obvious reticence as for the respective authors and their ‘legitimising’ critics are concerned.

People, destinies, hisotry - 1

Oameni, destine, istorie - interviu cu Monica Lovinescu

Author(s): Mircea Iorgulescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 57/2006

Keywords: Monica Lovinescu; Mihnea Berindei; Rodica Iulian; Goergeta Dimisianu; William Totok; “Free Europe”; political exile; intellectual in the totalitarian regime; schizoid mentality of the totalitarian regime; Romanian post-war literature

Conversations with Monica Lovinescu, Mihnea Berindei, Rodica Iulian, Georgeta Dimisianu and William Totok. The five interviews in this issue are concluding the publication of the selection made for “Lettre Internationale”, the Romanian edition, from the interviews made for “Radio Free Europe” between February 1997 and August 1999 and broadcast during the same period in the show “People, Destinies, History”, produced by Mircea Iorgulescu. The interviews take the form of auto-biographical confessions, often intertwined with reminiscences of events or historical environments from the angle of one’s own experiences. The recollections add up to a polyphonic testimony about the world of the 20th century.

Book review: Monica Heller: Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography

Recenze: Monica Heller: Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography

Author(s): Ivo Vasiljev / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2009

Monica Heller: Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography. Second edition. London, New York: Continuum, 2006. xii+236 pp. Advances in Sociolinguistics.

THE IMAGE OF LONDON AS CULTURAL MOSAIC IN NOVELS WRITTEN BY SALMAN RUSHDIE, HANIF KUREISHI, MONICA ALI AND ZADIE SMITH

THE IMAGE OF LONDON AS CULTURAL MOSAIC IN NOVELS WRITTEN BY SALMAN RUSHDIE, HANIF KUREISHI, MONICA ALI AND ZADIE SMITH

Author(s): Simona Veronica Abrudan Caciora / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: trans-cultural cities; multiculturalism; integration; the European Union

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize that nowadays, perhaps more than ever before, Europe can be perceived as a rich mosaic of cultures. Given the large diversity of people living in contemporary Europe, the success of the EU depends, among others, on its efforts to become as inclusive as possible, encouraging cooperation across states while preserving and respecting individual rights and freedoms, collective identities and cultures. During the last decades, many large cities and metropolises of the “Old Continent” have turned into rich cultural mosaics, where people belonging to different nations, regions and cultures encounter and interact; the European urban space may be considered a mirror, reflecting processes that are currently at work in the entire European Union. This paper makes reference to the way several novelists, writing in English during the last decades, perceive London and the problems it confronts, arguing in favor of tolerance that, in their opinion, might be the best, if not the only solution to peaceful co-habitation in present-day Europe.

FROM BRICK LANE TO ALENTEJO BLUE: CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN MONICA ALI’S WRITINGS

FROM BRICK LANE TO ALENTEJO BLUE: CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN MONICA ALI’S WRITINGS

Author(s): Elisabetta Marino / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2008

Keywords: Alentejo Blue; Brick Lane; British Bangladeshi communities; cross cultural encounters; Monica Ali

This paper focuses on the different ways in which Bangladeshi-British writer Monica Ali deals with cross-cultural encounters. While in her debut novel she concentrated on the secluded British Bangladeshi community in East-End London, in her second novel, set in Portugal, she approaches the theme from a wider perspective, breaking through the invisible walls of the ethnic niche.

Social Media in Politics. Case Studies on the Political Power of Social Media – Bogdan Pătruţ, Monica Pătruţ (Editors)

Social Media in Politics. Case Studies on the Political Power of Social Media – Bogdan Pătruţ, Monica Pătruţ (Editors)

Author(s): Mădălina Matei / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

Exile and Liberalization in Romanian Culture. Monica Lovinescuʼs East-Ethics Criticism

CULTURA ROMÂNĂ ÎNTRE LIBERALIZARE ŞI EXIL. MONICA LOVINESCU ŞI CRITICA EST-ETICĂ

Author(s): Ioana-Gabriela Șandru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: liberalization; intellectual elite; exile; literature; communism;

The condition of the intellectual under the totalitarian regime has been an intensely discussed topic among Western theorists, both before and after 1989. Assuming that, in Romania, critical thinking wasn't manifested by such specialists, this paper aims to discuss the theories of Monica Lovinescu, the leading female voice of Romanian exile, about the existing relations between the intellectual elite and the communist regime.

Saint Monica. The example of the Christian wife and the mother

Święta Monika – wzór chrześcijańskiej żony i matki

Author(s): Henryk Majkrzak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: św. Monika; matka; rodzina; świętość; Saint Monica; family; mother; sanctity

Saint Monica is for us an example of the Christian wife and the mother. The human family struggles now with the different difficulties and we do need a good examples of saint women. One of them is the saint Monica who lived in fourth century. She was a person very humble, patient and full of the devotion towards Jesus Christ and His Church. Her husband Patricius was a pagan and her son Augustin abandoned the Church and joined to the Manicheans. Monica prayed for them, was very patient with them and accompanied them. They converted and changed totally their life and received the sacrament of baptism. Augustin became a priest and then a bishop. The mission of saint Monica was over. This saint woman triumphed and she could finish her life. The Monica’s death was a good example for her family. She asked them to pray for her during the Holy Mass and promise them to be very closed to them even after her death.

Book Review: Participația Penala (The Criminal Paricipation), Author: Monica-Eugenia Ungureanu, Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017

Book Review: Participația Penala (The Criminal Paricipation), Author: Monica-Eugenia Ungureanu, Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017

Author(s): Călina Andreea Gardkiotis / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-2/2018

Keywords: Criminal participation; Romanian Criminal law; foreign legislation; perpetrator; criminal liability.

The work entitled “Criminal participation” approaches a widely debated theme within the criminal law doctrine and with significant implications in the judicial practice. The author analyzes the issues which have raised controversy in the Romanian and foreign doctrine and also relates to the deficiencies of the regulation of this institution within Romanian criminal law. The monograph contains five chapters, including more sections, as well as de lege ferenda proposals, which, in the opinion of the author, could contribute in future to the aligning of the institution with the regulations established in the foreign legislation. The work presents useful information for the theoreticians and also for practitioners within the field.

MONICA SABOLO, SUMMER, PARIS, ÉDITIONS JC LATTES, 2017, 316 P.

MONICA SABOLO, SUMMER, PARIS, ÉDITIONS JC LATTES, 2017, 316 P.

Author(s): Alexandra Borod / Language(s): French / Issue: 3/2018

Roman de la condition humaine et d’analyse psychologique, Summer nous met devant le récit de Benjamin, le frère de la fille disparue, qui arrive, par ses anam-nèses, à retrouver le sens d’une dispari-tion jamais comprise, qui hante son exis-tence. Le titre métonymique, Summer, renvoie au noyau central de la recherche entreprise par le protagoniste. Placé dans un présent assez éloigné de l’événement, c’est-à-dire vingt-quatre ans après la fuite de Summer, son frère cadet essaie de re-faire le cadre de son passé pour trouver les vrais ressorts qui ont poussé sa sœur à s’enfuir. Ainsi, son récit est parsemé de flashs incongrus, d’images éparses qui défilent sur l’écran de sa mémoire et qu’il essaie de faire revivre, gardant cependant la conscience d’une mémoire « épon-geuse », « troueuse », qui se donne par séquences, d’une manière fragmentaire et pas totalisante : « Peut-être est-ce la seule chose qui reste à faire quand on n’a plus ni souvenirs, ni émotions : retrouver des vestiges, creuser avec ses doigts dans la terre, reconstituer des squelettes, épous-seter les fossiles, mais même là, il est probable qu’on ne parvienne jamais à saisir la vie qui les animait, pas même à l’effleurer. » (p. 194) Ses recherches se déroulent ainsi en deux directions : il y a une plongée dans l’inconscient, dont la profondeur est symbolisée par les rêves « aquatiques ». Ici il retrouve toujours la même image qui prend des aspects diffé-rents : il s’agit des poissons « visqueux » qui collent au corps de Summer, des fou-gères qui se mêlent à ses cheveux, de la chemise de nuit bleue en coton, de ses yeux écarquillés, de ses pupilles où il se voit lui-même : « Sous l’eau. Un doux re-mous, dans les profondeurs. Summer est là. Elle porte une chemise de nuit bleue, qui vole autour d’elle comme des ailes, ou des nageoires, les ondulations souples d’une raie. » (p. 33), « Summer, les yeux grands ouverts. Je vois mon reflet dans ses pupilles, une petite silhouette telle une minuscule poupée à l’intérieur d’une autre poupée. » (p. 33) Une autre direction de la recherche est celle déroulée pendant la veille, recherche qui s’appuie sur une anamnèse contrôlée par laquelle on pro-cède à une resémantisation du matériau disséminé dans le cône d’ombre de son inconscient.

“Whose Property Are My Letters?” Inside Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca’s Archive

“Whose Property Are My Letters?” Inside Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca’s Archive

Author(s): Astrid Cambose / Language(s): English / Issue: 24/2019

Keywords: Politics of memory; archives; heritage; letters and diaries; Monica Lovinescu; Ecaterina Bălăcioiu-Lovinescu;

Public use of objects belonging to private memory is what concerned me while writing this article. Under discussion will be the collection of letters received by Romanian couple Lovinescu–Ierunca during their more than sixty-year exile in France (1946-2008) from hundreds of fellow intellectuals confined to Romania by the communist regime. The documents belonged to the couple until their death. “Whose property are my letters?” is a question that may now—once the recipients are dead—be raised by any of their surviving correspondents. (The recipient becomes the rightful owner of all the letters he or she receives; but what if the recipient dies without any legal heirs? Who is entitled to the final and legal decision about the fate of those letters?) The politics of memory—issues most germane to public policy—will therefore be the main focus of the first part of my paper. Next, I shall address the special situation of the letters Monica Lovinescu received from her mother, Ecaterina Bălăcioiu-Lovinescu, a fonds which I managed as follows: recovery, selection, translation into Romanian (given the fact that most of them were written in French in order to evade political censorship), publication by Humanitas Publishing House, followed by the transfer of the physical collection to the Humanitas Aqua Forte Foundation. Editing that private correspondence was an occasion for me to fully experience what Arlette Farge (1989) has called “the allure of the archives.” I shall present this experience in detail in the second part of my study.

“She Isn’t Going to Give Up”: Women’s Resilience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane – A Feminist Reading

“She Isn’t Going to Give Up”: Women’s Resilience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane – A Feminist Reading

Author(s): Ana-Blanca Ciocoi-Pop / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: Monica Ali; Brick Lane; feminism; postcolonialism; culture clash; emancipation; immigrants; feminine resilience;

While Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane is most often analyzed from the vantage points of postcolonialism as a text dealing primarily with the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrant community in London, it is difficult, if not downright impossible, to overlook the crucial role women and feminine resilience (in the face of not only patriarchy, but also racism, religion and social unrest) play in the novel. In actual fact, the story can much easier be read as the plight of women in their quest for self-determination and identity than as a novel about cultural clashes in the multicultural metropolis. The present essay sets out to prove that feminism is actually at the forefront of Ali’s novel, and that the feminine characters in Brick Lane stand for a post-feminist reflection on the (still) gasping abyss between theoretical gender equality and real-life sexism.

Review for "Cercetări în psihologie şi ştiintele educaţiei (Coordonator Monica Albu)"

Cercetări în psihologie şi ştiintele educaţiei (Coordonator Monica Albu)

Author(s): Marius Florea / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: XVII/2019

Christian Hofmann and Monica Kirner-Ludwig (Eds.) (2020). Telecinematic Stylistics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 352 pp., ISBN: 9781350042872.

Christian Hofmann and Monica Kirner-Ludwig (Eds.) (2020). Telecinematic Stylistics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 352 pp., ISBN: 9781350042872.

Author(s): Małgorzata Lisowska- Magdziarz / Language(s): English / Issue: 28/2021

Review of book: Christian Hofmann and Monica Kirner-Ludwig (Eds.) (2020). Telecinematic Stylistics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 352 pp., ISBN: 9781350042872.

Dinu Lipatti – Scrisori [Dinu Lipatti – Letters], 2 vols. (eds. Monica Isăcescu and Ștefan Costache)

Dinu Lipatti – Scrisori [Dinu Lipatti – Letters], 2 vols. (eds. Monica Isăcescu and Ștefan Costache)

Author(s): Irina Boga / Language(s): English / Issue: 31/2017

Valeria Federighi, Monica Naso, Daniele Belleri (eds.), Eyes of the City. Architecture and Urban Space After Artificial Intelligence

Valeria Federighi, Monica Naso, Daniele Belleri (eds.), Eyes of the City. Architecture and Urban Space After Artificial Intelligence

Author(s): Francesco Carota / Language(s): English / Issue: 9/2021

Keywords: architecture; urban space; AI;

Review of: Valeria Federighi, Monica Naso, Daniele Belleri (eds.), Eyes of the City. Architecture and Urban Space After Artificial Intelligence Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2021, 304 pages, including illustrations ISBN- 978-3-7757-4880-3

The Sensuality of Taste: Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity as Mediated by Food and Food Culture in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

The Sensuality of Taste: Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity as Mediated by Food and Food Culture in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Author(s): Ana-Blanca Ciocoi-Pop / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: Monica Ali; Brick Lane; national identity; food culture; intercultural dialogue;

Apart from being a compelling discourse on immigrants, cultural clashes, the East-West conflict, arranged marriages, extramarital affairs and general existential anxiety, Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane is also a fascinating excursion into the sensual and meandering world of food and its emotional and cultural implications. Trapped in an arranged marriage devoid of the passion her woman’s heart had hoped for, the protagonist Nazneen seeks a substitute type of sensuality first in food, and subsequently in her son Raqib and her lover Karim, all part of an intricate and complex process of cultural self-discovery and self-definition. The present essay focuses on how food plays a central role in Nazneen’s life as a young immigrant in London, being her only remaining connection to her homeland and to herself. While constantly telling her hungry heart “do not beat with fear, do not beat with desire” (27), Nazneen eats herself up searching for personal agency and fulfillment in a life which offers her neither. Food appears within this complex equation as a balancing element, a safety net, and an escape mechanism, which allows the protagonist to sustain not only her physical body, but also her famished soul, and to (re)establish her thwarted connection to her national and cultural identity.

Monica VLAICU (ed.), Adolf Schullerus (1864-1928). Correspondence and Lectures of the Transylvanian Pastor, Scholar and Politician

Monica VLAICU (Hg.), Adolf Schullerus (1864-1928). Korrespondenzen und Vorträge des siebenbürgischen Pfarrers, Gelehrten und Politikers,

Author(s): Mircea-Gheorghe Abrudan / Language(s): Romanian,German / Issue: 61/2022

Keywords: Adolf Schullerus; Monica Vlaicu; history; review;

Review of: Monica Vlaicu (Hg.), Adolf Schullerus (1864-1928). Korrespondenzen und Vorträge des siebenbürgischen Pfarrers, Gelehrten und Politikers, Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Monica Vlaicu, mit einem Vorwort von Ulrich A. Wien, [Schriften zur Landeskunde Siebenbürgens Band 37], Böhlau Verlag, Wien-Köln-Weimar, 2018, 368 p.

A taste of home: Immigrant food spaces in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and In the Kitchen

A taste of home: Immigrant food spaces in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and In the Kitchen

Author(s): Silvia Baučeková / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

Keywords: immigration; globalization; food spaces; Monica Ali; contemporary British novel;

In his book Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Marc Augé notes that places inhabited by indigenous people “have at least three characteristics in common. They want to be—people want them to be—places of identity, of relations and of history” (52). However, in a global world, access to these ancestral places is often lost. Immigrants frequently find themselves in what Augé calls non-places: in transit, in temporary spaces, in generic, hostile, or alien environments. In this paper, I look at how everyday spaces are occupied by immigrant characters in two novels by the Bangladeshi-British author Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003) and In the Kitchen (2009). Taking as a starting point Michel de Certeau’s understanding of everyday activities as possible vehicles of empowerment and resistance, I examine how domestic food spaces, and the activities performed in them, help foster a sense of belonging and community. I also explore the paradoxical nature of public food spaces, which, while providing the immigrant characters with jobs and serving as sites of community building, also contribute to their social exclusion and isolation. Finally, I explore how Ali uses (immigrant) food spaces in her novels to add a sense of locality to the global metropolis that is contemporary London.

On Monica Lovinescu

Despre Monica Lovinescu

Author(s): Cristian Pătrăşconiu,Cristina Cioabă / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 11/2023

Keywords: Monica Lovinescu; work; ethics; moderation; radicalism;

Interviw with Cristina CIOABĂ by Cristian PătrăsconIiu.