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Review of: Mirjana Matijević Sokol, Tomislav Galović, ur., Hrvatska heraldička baština I. – odabrane teme. Priručnik za studente, Zagreb: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu; FF press, 2024, 362 stranice
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Review of: Vlasta Švoger, Dénes Sokcsevits, András Cieger, Branko Ostajmer, ur., The 1868 Croatian-Hungarian Settlement: Origin and Reality, Zagreb; Budapest: Hrvatski institut za povijest; MTA BTK TTI, 2021., 304 stranice
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Review of: Hall, B., Covarrubias, P. & Kirschbaum, K. (2022) Among Cultures – the Challenge of Communication. New York, Routledge.
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In the preface to the volume Dear Fernando Pessoa, Rodica Zane notes that the dialogues Angela Martin initiates with the great Portuguese writer in The Inner Self as a Stage become for her “a way of living in and through literature, escaping the captivity of limits…” Ultimately, the author is telling her own story. Does she continue to narrate herself in her subsequent books as well?
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I found it useful to read about how much of Eliade’s research on myths is still relevant, while simultaneously exploring his Legionary past in Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: The Hidden Past of a Great Scholar and the Assassination of His Disciple (Polirom, 2024), a study translated by Sorana Lupu in the same year as its English edition was published.
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The prose of The Road to the Rising Sun carries a restorative, redemptive, and cathartic dimension: the journals, poems, and notebooks of the poet, professor, and historian—who was never meant to be—are swallowed by the cynical pragmatism of a perpetual battle for which he is neither destined nor naturally equipped. Their essence, along with the spirit crushed by loss and unbearable pressures, is reborn through the writing of his sister, who erects a small temple of remembrance through what is shared and thus immortalized.
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Complemented by Epistolar (1987), the journal found its keystone at the end of 2024: “I Invented Păltiniș!” Letters, Memories, Evocations. Due to its density of new insights, with details and stages that complete the picture of cultural-historical reconstructions, the volume, edited by Grigore Vida, is entirely welcome.
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The poetic universe of Ileana Mălăncioiu, both phantasmatic and traumatic, is strikingly singular, revealing an outraged consciousness that embraces the theme of death. A poetry in black and white, as Ion Mircea observed—vital yet indebted to rustic demonism—revives anonymous memory with its ritualistic demands, bearing "archetypal guilt" (cf. Iulian Boldea). Through heightened perception and incursions into the "other world," the realm of shadows, her work signifies "another way of feeling reality" (cf. E. Negrici). The sap of an ancient, harsh rural moralism undoubtedly irrigates the poetry of one who, from Pasărea tăiată (The Slain Bird, 1967—a modest debut) to Urcarea muntelui (The Ascent of the Mountain, 1985—an "editorial bomb," in the words of the seasoned M. Sântimbreanu), has radicalized her discourse, affirming that "the time of melancholy has passed."
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Although it falls within the temporal boundaries of the first novel (Valentina, 2023) in the planned Arad Trilogy, Cartea lui Cezar (The Book of Cezar) by Angela Martin (Polirom Publishing House, 2024) introduces significant points of divergence. The text’s coordinates—geography, chronology, and emphasis—shift. The authorial gaze moves away from the Transylvanian setting of the previous half-century and transitions instead to reveal Bucharest, Paris, and Nancy in the late 1960s, around events such as the Prague Spring and the Paris uprisings. This strategy frames Cezar Grozescu’s Bildungsroman within a political context.
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As far as I remember, I believe that Ștefan Borbély, recently returned from an American-Japanese research fellowship in the early 1990s, introduced the concept of psychobiography into the pages of the Echinox magazine. It was therefore expected that the first brilliant application of this approach would come from Cluj, a city of scholars. In 2024, at Litera Publishing House, Anca Hațiegan published a psychobiography titled Ciulei și spectrul Tatălui (Ciulei and the Specter of the Father), which benefits from an admiring preface by none other than our expert in detective-like literary exegesis, the playful professor Ion Vartic. From his cover text, we learn that Anca Hațiegan debuted in 2019 with a “multi-award-winning book,” Dimineața actrițelor (The Actresses’ Morning), and now, once again, breaks new ground with a highly surprising and thought-provoking psychobiography dedicated to the actor, director, and set designer Liviu Ciulei.
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A new collection of studies and research by one of the pioneers of modern cognitive science has recently been published in our book market. This is the volume Essays on Art and Science by Eric R. Kandel, the 2000 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology and Medicine, translated by Adina Avramescu, Polirom Publishing House, Iași, 2024, 231 pages.
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It is neither a critical edition nor a complete works edition. The editors did not aim for such a project, but it is a scholarly edition, meticulously prepared from a philological perspective, with substantial literary history support, insightful literary criticism insertions, and the intent to bring Leonid Dimov’s work back into the spotlight.
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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.
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Books review. The new volume aligns with the trend of essentialization and the cultivation of the thanatic, a dreamlike exploration through which Blandiana once again delves into her "ceremony of silence." / Ruxandra Cesereanu, in Regii gunoaielor, proposes a literary slalom through the milestones of Romania’s history over the past 35 years, capturing the reader’s attention from the very first pages by exploring the blurred boundary between reality and fiction.
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Without claiming to answer all questions, Cătălin Ranco Pițu's book is the best formulation to date of the Truth and the most sincere tribute to the hero-martyrs of the anti-communist Revolution of December 1989.
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Book review. Ioan Pricop, Geometric and Harmonic Structures in Nature and Art, Artes Publishing House, Iași, 252 pages.
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Book review. George Banu, il. de Mirela Marin, Iisușii mei sau coexistența cu arta sacră/ My Jesuses or Coexistence with Sacred Art, Nemira, Bucharest, 2018, 160 pages
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Book review. The volume signed by Alexandru Davidian was printed in 2019, being a consistent monography of 440 pages, minutely worked upon, enriched with relevant texts and expressive images.
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As the prefacer Petru Bejan, full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy from UAIC argues, Cristina Talpan’s book pertains to a speculative register, at the crossroads of several fields, competencies, and methodologies. The author aims at bringing together philosophy and visual arts, with data from art history, aesthetics, and semiotics, focusing on the 17th-19th centuries, inciting the viewer to adopt the perspective of Umberto Eco in Opera aperta and contribute to the visual text’s array of significance.
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