Conferences
Emil Brumaru: The Feminine Inferno and Brumaru’s Angels
On Sunday, 24 September 2017, from 11.00, in the Black Box Hall of NTB, Mr. Emil Brumaru shall hold the conference on the topic The Feminine Inferno and Brumaru’s Angels.
About the Conference
One of the major Romanian poets, Emil Brumaru, shall arrive precisely from Iași in order to tell the Bucharest spectators about a very special realm, essential place in the imaginary of his oeuvre, which he named „the nature reserve of angels”. For Brumaru, who often signed his letters with „The juggling angel Emil Brumaru“, the angelic has a sex and angels are, for the most part, beautiful women. Brumaru’s angels are sinning in an inferno of eroticism, making up one of the most original universes of Romanian poetry.
About Emil Brumaru
Emil Brumaru was born on 1st January 1939 in the parish Bahmutea (Mihailovca), Tighina county, Bessarabia (nowadays the Republic of Moldova). After studies at the Secondary School no. 1 „Mihail Sadoveanu" (the current National College) of Iaşi, he followed the courses of the Faculty of Medicine in the same town, graduating in 1963. In the time frame 1963–1975, he was a physician in the parish Dolhasca, Suceava county. He then dedicated himself to writing, in parallel with the activity as proofreader (1983–1989) and editor (1990–1996) at the Convorbiri literare magazine of Iaşi. He made his debut with poems in the Luceafărul magazine (1967), then editorial in 1970, with two poetry volumes, Verses (Writers’ Guild Award for debut) and Arthur the Detective. His poems were included in anthologies in Romania, Germany, France, England, Sweden, USA. In the time frame 1992–2009, he held a weekly column in România literară (The Coffee Beggar), having as well, over time, columns in Ziarul de Iaşi (Gulliver), Cronica, Plai cu boi, Suplimentul de cultură (God isGazing at us through Binoculars, The Civil Morning Dusk, Diablogs – together with Veronica D. Niculescu) etc. He was awarded numerous prizes, such as the „Mihai Eminescu" National Poetry Prize for Opera Omnia (2001) and the „Gheorghe Crăciun" award for Opera Omnia granted by the Cultural Observer magazine (2011).
Writings (selections): Adieu, Robinson Crusoe (1978), The Enamoured Cupboard (1980), The Ruins of a Samovar (1983), From the Hollow of a Carrot (1998), Selected Poems. 1959–1998 (2003), Poetic Works (2003, 2005 – ed. revăzută şi adăugită), Pain d'Espagne Butterflies (2003), The Coffee Scrounger. Letters to Lucian Raicu (2004), The Infernal Comedy (2005), Erotic Submarine (2005), God isGazing at us through Binoculars (2006), An Adolescent's Songs (2007), Romanian Erotic Stories (collective volume, 2007), We Betroth Ourselves with this Ring of Grass (object-book, 2008), The Story of the Rural Petty Boyar and the Maiden... (2008, 2012 – extended edition), Works I. Julian the Hospitaller (2009), Works II. Erotic Submarine (2009), Works III. The Coffee Scrounger (2012), The Angel Reservation (2013).
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
