Un strălucit volum de predici ortodoxe

Author(s): Dan Ciachir / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 08/2024

The present article is a chronicle of the volume Evanghelia Harului şi Adevărului Mântuitor (Gospel of Grace and Redemptive Truth), containing 58 extensive sermons, most of them for all the Sundays in the year. Elegant as the graphic garment given to the book by Lumea Credinţei Publishing House, these homilies bear the mark of the hierarch meant to analyze the dogmatic purity of the faith from an Orthodox point of view.

„Despicat între duh şi / cuvânt...” (Câteva comentarii la cartea Marianei Anghel, Încercare asupra operei lui Eugen Dorcescu, Ed. Waldpress, Timişoara, 2024)

Author(s): Livius Petru Bercea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 08/2024

This article is a chronicle of Mariana Anghel’s book, Încercare asupra operei lui Eugen Dorcescu. For many years, the lyrics of Eugen Dorcescu from Timişoara have been dominated by a beneficial and noble mystical component. The author of the article aims to see to what extent Mariana Anghel’s valuable judgments rest on a solid “theoretical” foundation and do not come only from literary exegetical perceptions. Intelligently written, Mariana Anghel’s book is a non-ostentatious text towards the conclusion that Eugen Dorcescu is one of the great contemporary poets.

Recenzie la Liviu VIDICAN-MANCI, Cateheze pentru cei botezaţi, Editura Renaşterea, prefaţă de Preasfinţitul Benedict Bistriţeanul, Episcop-Vicar al Arhiepiscopiei Vadului, Feleacului şi Clujului, Cluj-Napoca, 2023

Author(s): Marius Daniel Ciobotă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 08/2024

Book-Review to Liviu VIDICAN-MANCI, Cateheze pentru cei botezaţi, Editura Renaşterea, prefaţă de Preasfinţitul Benedict Bistriţeanul, Episcop-Vicar al Arhiepiscopiei Vadului, Feleacului şi Clujului, Cluj-Napoca, 2023

Politice/ Nene

Author(s): Marcel Tolcea,Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

Ioan Petru Culianu would have turned 75 this month. From Chicago and Paris to Bucharest and Iași, academies and universities would have acclaimed the exceptional work of the most formidable historian of religions since Mircea Eliade. Confetti would have rained down like spring wheat over newlyweds, and the deep lines on the great scholar’s face would have momentarily ceased their relentless carving. But Culianu died at just forty years old.

Recviem pentru Anii Romantici

Author(s): Cristian Pătrăşconiu,Gabriela Adameşteanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

But to return to your question—my book touches on the history of communism only because of my own biography. It quickly moves through my childhood during the Stalinist era and my experience as an editor under communism (a subject I will revisit in my next book, Occupations Not Recommended for Women, which I hope to finish in 2025). At times, I even reach back to the interwar period through the biographies of my characters—for instance, that of Mihai Șora, who spans nearly a century, or my uncles.

Pentru ce fapte bune ați fost pedepsit?

Author(s): Cristian Pătrășconiu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

The famous "act of doing good" has a complicated genealogy. It is natural to do good for your family, although many families are divided, dissolving their kinship in the venom of petty conflicts.

Autobiografie

Author(s): Gabriela Adameşteanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

In communism, an autobiography was a summary of your life from a politically correct perspective. Upon an official request, you would recite it in a plenary meeting or write it down in a Personnel Office. There were also standardized forms, primitive multiple-choice tests. I recently found my student-era autobiography in a drawer. I felt embarrassed by how I had “packaged” my uneventful life and how I distanced myself from relatives with “serious faults.” I was stepping into life by lying, instructed to do so from home.

Franco/ Despre Vasile Rodian, la plecare

Author(s): Alexandru Potcoavă,Viorel Marineasa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

I completed my first four years of school at Nikolaus Lenau, in Piața Unirii. The building had long ago housed an inn, The Seven Prince-Electors, then had been turned into a warehouse, and eventually became an educational institution. / On his writer’s record kept at the Timișoara Branch of the Union, under the Honorary Positions section, Vasile Rodian proudly wrote: Member of the “Pavel Dan” literary circle.

Principiul incertitudinii (62)/ Deportări și suferințe

Author(s): Paul Eugen Banciu,Pia Brînzeu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

The book that enlightens you is the one that whispers that, among all the possible paths in life, you have chosen the one closest to your nature, the one that has allowed you to retreat from the world in moments of great tension. / I often remember my mother's stories about how she hid for a long time during the winter of 1945 to avoid being taken to Russia, as happened to many of her German classmates.

Poezie și ritual

Author(s): Marian Odangiu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

In 2020, “the year of the pandemic,” Amalia Brăescu published her doctoral thesis—a remarkable essay on the creator of the Păltiniș phenomenon: Constantin Noica – Ontology of National Identity and the European Cultural Model. That same year, she also released two poetry volumes, Poezie de carbon (Art Creativ Publishing) and Noxe și doxe (Brumar Publishing). The difference between her debut book, Corecturi (2016), and the poems in these new collections is almost negligible. Amalia Brăescu writes cerebral, cryptic, surrealist poetry with a distinct, tightly controlled musicality—peculiar due to the rhymes that occasionally fragment the verses, making them flow like a mountain river whose bed is filled with boulders.

”Curat Caragiale”

Author(s): Cristina Chevereșan,Traian Bugescu,Florina Erimescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

In 2025, more than ever, the humor and detachment of the master are needed for a society with "principles" perfectly matched with the delightful Catavencu characters. Who are you, the ones behind this mini-festival of creativity?

La monumentul lăudat/ Ilf și Petrov

Author(s): Dana Chetrinescu,Ciprian Vălcan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

One could paraphrase the old saying: Do not approach a revered monument even with a snowball, let alone a hammer, when reading about the misadventures of some children who accidentally clashed with the Directorate for the Memory of Soldiers Fallen for the Defense of the Fatherland in the Russian Federation. A group of boys from a school near Saint Petersburg—formerly Leningrad, a city that endured immense hardship during World War II (or the Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets named it)—accidentally extinguished the eternal flame at a monument dedicated to the heroes of the Red Army. According to the law, this act is punishable by up to five years in prison.

Tur de orizont/ Cronica măruntă

Author(s): Anemone Popescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

La împlinirea a 85 de ani de la nașterea lui Nicolae Manolescu, România literară găzduiește evocări despre cel mai important critic literar postbelic, ale scriitorilor Alexandru Călinescu, Gabriel Chifu, Mircea Mihăieș, Angelo Mitchievici, Cristian Pătrășconiu, Irina Petraș, Marta Petreu, Vasile Spiridon, Răzvan Voncu.

Vinoteca de lângă cinematecă

Author(s): Ioan T. Morar / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2025

It must be said that the wines here bear not only the imprint of "taster" Ridley Scott but also his graphic signature. All the wine labels are designed by him, just as he is known for creating the storyboards for his films himself.

Кръгла маса по случай 100 години от постъпването на архивната сбирка на Народния/Етнографския музей във фонда на Българския исторически архив при Национална библиотека „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“

Author(s): Radoslav Spasov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2024

МЕЖДУНАРОДЕН ДЕН НА МУЗИКАТА В НАЦИОНАЛНАТА БИБЛИОТЕКА „СВ. СВ. КИРИЛ И МЕТОДИЙ“

Author(s): Maria Brankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2024

Устойчивият туризъм и библиотеките

Author(s): Militsa Matievich / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2024

This article discusses the potential of the library resource for the development of sustainable tourism. Modern tools for the promotion of cultural heritage in the function of sustainable development of the tourist offer offer libraries conditions for the economic and social well-being of the local and wider community. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Cultural heritage is that which has been inherited from past generations, which is maintained in the present and which will be given for the benefit of future generations. Libraries are among the most important institutions for preserving the cultural heritage of a community. After introducing new practices based on world principles, libraries take their share of responsibility and also support the positive aspects of society‘s development. Cultural tourism acts to promote and protect cultural heritage, but also through its not-for-profit and sustainable development concept enables the restoration, preservation and better protection of cultural sites.

Международна конференция „Опазване на културното наследство за устойчиво бъдеще“

Author(s): Krasimira Alexandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2024

Ars legendi

Author(s): Al. Cistelecan,Cosmin Divile,Ana Maria Dumitrașcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10-11/2024

Three essays on literary themes.

ШТО ДА СЕ ПРАВИ? - Или, што да правиме со денешната ни едукација, театарска и филмска?

Author(s): Jelena Lužina / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 9/2023

The title, as well as the text, deliberately flirt with the title phrase of an ancient, essentially enlightening, today's students would say "stupid" Russian novel, published some 160 years ago. The novel, today, can perhaps be considered "unreadable", primarily because of its "programmatic" or "social-pedagogical-educational" character. Literary history claims that its author, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, actually wrote it with polemical intentions - to "deconstruct" and expose Turgenev's "nihilism", literaryized in the famous novel "Fathers and Sons". All of us who have read Turgenev, no matter when, even in our long-ago student years, undoubtedly remember the novel about fathers and sons as a fine and subtle texture, quite esoteric, stuck to the bone in the "vague" and "invisible", almost like those later plays by Chekhov. For example, "The Seagull"... I believe that, today, we will all easily agree that polemicizing with the spatiotemporal text and context of "The Seagull" in advance is useless and "impractical", at least from our current "post-istic" or post-dramatic perspective. Alienated and open in every sense.