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“Maitreyi”, Mircea Eliade (en)

“Maitreyi”, Mircea Eliade (en)

Maitreyi was and still is a successful novel by Mircea Eliade because it presents the bodily love symphony, revolutionizing the epic in the Romanian literature.
This novel is based on an existential history, with a surprising result that the author (Mircea Eliade) and the central female character (Maitreyi) face and continue their biography besides the story.
The [...]

Guban Shoes

Guban Shoes

Do you remember the Guban shoes? The most comfortable shoes and with the smoothest skin, that were not standing in the hallway at the entrance, but in a box in the bedroom closet carefully wrapped in paper. I sampled these shoes in a mirror with my mother’s velvet dress, red lipstick and colored beads when [...]

Florin Piersic (en)

Florin Piersic (en)

The great actor Florin Piersic (peach tree) was born on January 271936 in Cluj-Napoca. He debuted in the film “Ciulinii Bărăganului”. Throughout his career he played in over 40 films and the role of Mărgelatul consecrated him, bringing him a real success and admiration of the women. Florin Piersic sent to his viewers both joy [...]

Constantin Cantacuzino (en)

Constantin Cantacuzino (en)

Romanian Diplomacy
To know history in detail is in general the work of historians and others related, but presents itself as a necesity for everyone else, being quite handy in scientific debates.
In our history books, the period between Mihai Viteazu and the well known year in European history – 1848, was not given much space. Except [...]

Old as the Great Union!

Old as the Great Union!

The Men Choir From Finteusul Mare
Some time ago, on the occasion of the celebration of 1st of December, I was at a concert with specific music. Among the singers, there was also a choir, to which I first did not pay any attention. The songs were not unheard before yet I was surprised… Never before [...]

How I Learned to Love Bucharest

How I Learned to Love Bucharest

When I was only a little kid, I used to come with my mother to Bucharest to visit an aunt who lived in Rosetti Place. At that time, I did not know the city, nor that area, and almost every time I paid her a visit, it rained or it was snow. And this is [...]

The Truth About Polenta

The Truth About Polenta

The text below was born because of an argument I had with a friend. Everything started from the point where I told that polenta is not a Romanian tradition. Before you say anything, approve my friend’s opinion or call me an ignorant, please read the arguments below. The will enlighten you.
Maize, the cereal responsible for [...]

Zavaidoc (en)

Zavaidoc (en)

It’s autumn in Bucharest during the First World War. On the darkened sky, German planes open their big mouth, spitting disaster on earth. The ruined streets stop the ladies to go out for a walk on a famous place called The Road. From the untouched cafés, a wonderful music is heard, a great voice rises [...]

Basil- Flower of Love

Basil- Flower of Love

One of the”qualities” Romanian people have is the one of mixing different traditions that come from other countries. Unfortunately this mix up proves to be a mutation which destroys our old customs which as time passes by we like to forget and never recognize them as ours. Actually all I’m saying now it’s not new. [...]

Where does Dracula come from?

Where does Dracula come from?

Did you ever wonder how the legend of Dracula came to be known and why it belongs to Romania? Besides the impressive story of Vlad the Impaler there are other important elements that build the legend. Perhaps one of the main reasons Romania is considered the homeland of vampires ist hat there are several legends [...]

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