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Istantanee di un terremoto
Full text linkCezar Petrescu (1892-1961) published his novel Carlton in 1946, a dramatic account of the last days of life of the residents of a luxury building in downtown Bucharest, on an autumn night in 1940, which was destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake. The work, that belongs to the cycle "The capital that kills", is focused on the tragic destiny of the characters, which in the author’s vision represent the whole of humanity, whose existence is at the mercy of an un- predictable fate. Not a mere recording of events, but a real psychological novel of one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century Romanian literature
Non solo proverbi: modi di dire, locuzioni, credenze popolari raccontati da Iuliu A. Zanne
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Alla ricerca della Bucarest perduta
No full textFirst printed in 1935 by the Parisian publisher Plon, Bucarest is a work of the French diplomat and writer Paul Morand. Belonging only partially to the types of travel literature, the text is marked by the author’s insistent search for the peculiar and the specific that distinguish the capital of inter-war Romania. By avoiding any form of gross generalization and stereotypical images, Morand manages to evoke the atmosphere of Bucharest in the 1930s better than anyone else and, at the same time, to paint a timeless image of a unique city
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