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naturegirl321
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:44 pm Post subject: books and authors |
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I'd like to read some books by Romanian authors, do you have any favorites? |
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Ajax
Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 16 Location: Thailand
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naturegirl321
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:58 am Post subject: |
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thanks! |
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daveryan
Joined: 20 Aug 2003 Posts: 40
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:07 pm Post subject: Liviu Rebreanu |
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I have just finished reading a novel 'The Uprising' by the above which although heavy going, is definitely worth a look. |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:54 am Post subject: Olivia Manning |
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I will give you one name of a non-Romanian author. Olivia Manning wrote well on the absurdities of teaching English with the British Council in the Balkans in the build-up to WWII. And I cannot remember the title !
Senility is setting in. |
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grahamb
Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:43 am Post subject: Romania |
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I think that Bram Stoker guy wrote a scary story about some vampire dude out there. |
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Hector_Lector
Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 548
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Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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Olivia Manning - The Balkan Trilogy, later followed by The Levant Trilogy.
Filmed in the late 1980s, starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. |
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scot47
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Read the Maning book if ever you are tempted to work for the British Council. |
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dracotei
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 48
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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I realise this is three years old, but in case you're still around.... Must read Eminescu (poetry), the biggest romanian poet there ever was. Also worth reading Ion Luca Caragiale, if you can find a good translation, one of the best playwrights who influenced Eugene Ionescu / o (The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros - some of his plays - though originally written in French; a lot of it is a result of Pirandello and Caragiale - theater of the absurd). Also, if you find a good translation of Nichita Stanescu, also poetry, it's pretty interesting. I can go on and on, but what do you like to read - prose, poetry, theater; realism, romanticism, etc? I should be able to narrow it down then. |
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dracotei
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 48
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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I forgot to mention. For God's sake, stay away from "Dracula", no offense to the guy who posted, but it makes me ill. 1) It's horrible writing, from a literary perspective, 2) it offends Romanians as Vlad Tepes was a national hero to that country since he managed to kick the Ottoman Empire out for good, 3) it's boring as all hell unless you like that sort of thing. I do, however, recommend "In Search of Dracula" by McNally and Florescu, a non ficiton book and a theory of who Dracula might have really been. TIP: Try to read between the lines and use your judgement. |
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scot47
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk |
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