Conferences
Ioana Pârvulescu: Writing Romanian is very difficult - The media in Caragiale's time
Sunday, February 27th, 11:00, Ioana Pârvulescu speaks at the Writing Romanian is very difficult... The media in Caragiale's time conference, at the "Atelier" Hall of the National Theatre. The price of a ticket is of 16 or 23 lei.
About the conference
At some point, past 1990, I discovered the pleasure of reading newspapers and magazines of the 19th century and of the first half of the 20th. Far from being dusty, these yellow pages had a freshness of life that would compete dangerously with the books of the time. Although I'm afraid that journalism is one of the reasons for weakening literary powers, with its imperfection and ephemeral character, with its lifespan of 24 hours, once awaken after a 100 year sleep like Sleeping Beauty, the old media proves itself young and charismatic. And revealing. The Writing Romanian is very difficult... The media in Caragiale's time conference sets off from the malentu'es caused by Caragiale's work, then and now. I will not evade difficult or risky questions. To find the key to Caragiale's work and an explanation for the different ways it's been perceived by both his contemporary and his successors I will make a colorful detour through the newspapers of the second half of the 19th century, mostly around 1900. And Caragiale will shadow me on this surprising road.
About Ioana Pârvulescu
She was born in Brasov. Graduated of the Andrei Saguna Highscool. She moved to Bucharest at 19 years old to attend the courses of the Faculty of Letters. After graduation (in 1983) she commuted, like many of her generation, for 7 years as a Romanian teacher. In 1993 she became an editor for the Literary Romania magazine, where is she published weekly, for 17 years. She initiated and coordinated the "Book on the nightstand" collection of the Humanitas publishing house. Presently, the holds conferences at the Faculty of Letters in Bucharest and teaches modern Romanian literature. She published several books, translations from French and German, including Angelus Silesius and Rike, anthologies.
Her greatest success was with volumes published by Humanitas: essays Return to the interwar Bucharest (2003) and In the intimacy of the 19th century (2005), the novel Life begins on Friday (2009) - books that have in common the same main character: Bucharest.
About Caragiale, she wrote a short essay novel "In the country of myth creatures. 7 times Caragiale" and a letter dedicated to all "Caragiale'phils and phobs" in the "Book of Questions" (2010).
