Anyway, now that I’m back in Romania and anticipating a
visit later in June from three old friends, I offer a 250 page book – with hundreds of photographs and of hyperlinks.
It’s Mapping Romania – notes on an unfinished journey, a new, expanded edition of a
small E-book I first published 2 years ago.
I readily admit that it is an odd collection - consisting of three elements –
I readily admit that it is an odd collection - consisting of three elements –
- First an exhaustive annotated
list of writing (mainly in English) about the diverse cultural aspects
of Romania – whether music, photography, literature, buildings,
cinema……with hundreds of hyperlinks………you just dip in and view, read or listen
as the mood takes you…These lists are interspersed with excerpts from papers and
books to give more depth….
- I have, secondly, selected (mainly for the Annexes) some substantial articles
which seem to me to capture an important aspect of the “soul” of the
country – one is a harrowing description which appeared in the New York Review
of Books in the 1980s (but written by a Romanian) of the suffering being
experienced then by the Romanian people; another is a fairly coruscating view
of the country in 2000 by the famous historian Tony Judt; and the final article
is one on the new wave of Romanian cinema which I’ve included simply because
the themes represented in the films capture so well the concerns of
contemporary Romania….
- The third element
in the collection are the 70-odd pieces I’ve posted about Romania on my blog. The
most personal of the sections…..
The nice thing about the version I have posted is that it can be read as a book - with facing pages which you can flick......very nice feature....courtesy of ISSUU website......
The nice thing about the version I have posted is that it can be read as a book - with facing pages which you can flick......very nice feature....courtesy of ISSUU website......
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