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On Sunday, 19 March 2017, at 11.00 a.m., at the Studio Hall of NTB, Mr. Andrei Pleșu shall hold the conference entitled The Cheerful Caragiale?

About the Conference

More than ten years ago, Andrei Pleșu was holding his first conference at the National Theatre of Bucharest, captivating the audience with a conquering speech about the heart.

”When I get bored, or angry, or depressed, or I feel like giving up, (which happens daily, as soon as I browse the newspapers), I save myself or at least I keep afloat by perusing the writings of Uncle Iancu. A true national vitamin, a brave man, realistic, non-complaisant, full of humour, delivering relativism and healthy melancholy…”

Andrei Pleșu –Caragiale Again and Again, Adevărul, 29 August 2016

About Andrei Pleșu

Andrei Pleșu was born in 1948 in Bucharest. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, department of art history and theory. He obtained his PhD in art history at the Bucharest University, with the thesis The Feeling of Nature in European Culture. University lecturer (1980–1982) at the Fine Arts Academy, Bucharest (courses of Romanian modern art history and criticism). University professor for the history of religions, Faculty of Philosophy, Bucharest University (1991–1997). He is the founder and manager of the weekly cultural newspaper Dilema (later Dilema veche), founder and president of the New Europe Foundation and rector of the New Europe College (1994), member of the World Academy of Art and Science and of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie de l’Art, dr. phil. honoris causa of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Breisgau and of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur.

Writings: Journey to the world of forms, Meridiane, 1974; The picturesque and melancholy. An analysis of the feeling of nature in European culture, Univers, 1980; Humanitas, 1992; Francesco Guardi, Meridiane, 1981; The eye and things, Meridiane, 1986; The Moral Minimum. Elements for an Ethics of the Interval, Cartea Românească, 1988; Humanitas, 1994 (translation: French, German, Swedish, Hungarian, Slovak); The Tescani Journal, Humanitas, 1993 (translations: German, Hungarian); The language of birds, Humanitas, 1994; Faces and masks of the transition, Humanitas, 1996; Eliten – Ost und West, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin–New York, 2001; On Angels, Humanitas, 2003 (translation: French, Hungarian, German, English, Polish); Public obscenity, Humanitas, 2004; Comedies at the gates of the Orient, Humanitas, 2005; About Joy in East and West and other essays, Humanitas, 2006; Annotations, states, days, Humanitas, 2010; About the Forgotten Beauty of Life, Humanitas, 2011; Face to face, Humanitas, 2011; Jesus’ Parables. The truth as story, Humanitas, 2012; In the flow of conversation. 23 years of questions and answers, Humanitas, 2013; An idea twisting our minds (in collaboration with Gabriel Liiceanu and Horia-Roman Patapievici, Humanitas, 2014; Sunday Dialogues (in collaboration with Gabriel Liiceanu, Humanitas, 2015); numerous studies and articles in Romanian and foreign magazines.

(Biographical data gathered from humanitas.ro)

On this occasion, you can purchase from the theatre’s box office the conference About the Heart, held by Andrei Pleșu at NTB in 2006. Alongside these, you can find on sale over 30 conferences held by prominent personalities of the Romanian culture and socio-political life. The price of a conference (brochure + DVD) is 25 RON.

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu