Conferences
Mircea Mihăieș: On Success
On Sunday, 10th December 2017, from 11.00 a.m., the Small Hall of NTB shall host the conference given by Mircea Mihăieș - On Success.
About the Conference
The intent of this conference is to offer a description of the way success can be achieved, enhanced and lost nowadays. As success is not synonymous with value, its origins mobilise complex mechanisms, pertaining to social opportunities, institutional reflexes or deeply rooted and often unconscious customs. For the sake of illustration, we propose an evocation of the circumstances under which a novel, unanimously considered „difficult”, Ulysses by James Joyce, has ended up achieving, under utterly special circumstances, tremendous success. Mircea Mihăieș
About Mircea Mihăieș
Born in 1954 in Arad county, he is a literary critic, essayist and publicist. After graduating from high-school in Arad, he followed the faculty of philology of the Timișoara University, English-French department. He is a university professor at the chair for English language and literature of the Timișoara University, where he teaches English and American literature courses. He holds a PhD of Letters at the Bucharest University.
He is editor-in-chief of the Orizont magazine and editorialist at România literară and Evenimentul zilei. He makes his debut at Orizont magazine in 1979 and in volume in the year 1989. In 1991, he worked for several months in the editorship of The New Republic magazine. Since 1993, he has been holding the weekly column Contrafort in the România literară magazine.
Study scholarships at Woodrow Wilson Center, National Forum Foundation, Washington, D.C., New York University etc. He acted as vice-president of the Romanian Cultural Institute.
Published volumes (selection): Waking in the Mirror (1989, second edition 2005), The Book of Failures. Essays on Rewriting (1989), The Woman in Red (1990, second edition, 1997, third edition, 2003, fourth edition, 2007, novel written in collaboration with Mircea Nedelciu and Adriana Babeți), Cruel Books. The Intimate Journal and Suicide (1995, ed. a II-a, 2005), Victorian Fiction (1998), The Gall Mask (2000), Perseus’ Shield. Nicolae Manolescu between Parallel Mirrors (2003), The Life, Passions and Songs of Leonard Cohen, with 32 poems translated by Mircea Cărtărescu, Polirom Publishing, (2005), The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe (2008) (translated in the United States in 2013), What Remains. William Faulkner and the Mysteries of the Yoknapatawpha County (2012), Ulysses, 732. Novel of the Novel (2016)
Awards: Prose Award of the Romanian Writers’ Union (1990), Award for Criticism of the Romanian Writers’ Union (1995), Award for Literary Criticism for 2008 of the Romanian Writers’ Union – Timișoara Branch, Award for Literary Criticism / Essay / Literary History for 2009 of the Romanian Writers’ Union; Writer of the Year 2016 for the volume Ulysses, 732. Novel of the Novel, an impressive volume of literary criticism and exegesis, in which he analyses James Joyce’s masterpiece.
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
