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Irina Petraș
Irina Petraș (born 27 November 1947) is a Romanian writer, literary critic, essayist, translator and editor. Biography Irina Petraș graduated from high school in Agnita in 1965, and from the Faculty of Letters of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca in 1970. She earned a PhD in Romanian literature with the thesis entitled: ''Camil Petrescu, the Fiction Writer/Camil Petrescu, prozatorul (1980)''. She was editor of the Didactic and Pedagogic Publishing House (coordinator of the "Akademos" collection: 1990–1999), editor-in-chief of Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca (1999–2012). Currently she is president of the Cluj branch of the Writers' Union of Romania (since 2005). Publishing activity Irina Petraș's first published book was ''Proza lui Camil Petrescu'' (''Camil Petrescu's Fiction'') (1981). She has published four essays on the theme of death, two prominent ones are ''Ştiința morţii (The Knowledge of Death'') (1995) and ''Moartea la purt� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chirpăr
Chirpăr (; ) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Chirpăr, Săsăuș (''Sachsenhausen''; ''Szászház''), Vărd (''Werd''; ''Vérd'') and Veseud (''Zied''; ''Vessződ''). Chirpăr and Veseud villages have fortified churches. The commune is situated in the eastern part of the county, east of the county seat, Sibiu, south of Agnita, and west of Făgăraș. Architecture The village church was erected by the local Transylvanian Saxon community in the 12th century. It was initially built as a Romanesque basilica, made of stone. History The Mongol invasion The Mongol invasions and conquests took place during the 13th and 14th centuries, creating history's largest contiguous empire, the Mongol Empire (1206–1368), which by 1260 covered large parts of Eurasia. Historians regard the Mongol devastati ... of 1241–1242 caused great damage to the area. The first attestation of the locality (under the name of Kirchberg) d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Cioran
Emil Mihai Cioran (; ; ; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorisms. His works frequently engaged with issues of suffering, decay, and nihilism. In 1937, Cioran moved to the Latin Quarter of Paris, which became his permanent residence, wherein he lived in seclusion with his partner, Simone Boué, until his death in 1995. Early life Cioran was born in Resinár, Szeben County, Kingdom of Hungary (today Rășinari, Sibiu County, Romania). His father, Emilian Cioran, was an Orthodox priest, and his mother, Elvira, was the head of the ''Christian Women's League''. At 10, Cioran moved to Sibiu to attend school, and at 17, he was enrolled in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, where he met Eugène Ionesco and Mircea Eliade, who became his friends. Future Romanian ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurel Pantea
Aurel Pantea (; born 10 March 1952) is a Romanian poet and literary critic. Born in Chețani, Mureș County into a family of peasants, Pantea attended the Faculty of Letters of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, graduating in 1976. During the university years he collaborated with the magazine ''Equinox''. After graduation, he taught at Borșa and Alba Iulia. Since 1989 he is the director of the magazine ''Vatra'', and since 1990 he is the director of the magazine ''Discobolul''. He is a member of the Writers' Union of Romania The Writers' Union of Romania (), founded in March 1949, is a professional association of writers in Romania. It also has a subsidiary in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. The Writers' Union of Romania was created by the communist regime by takin .... Body of works ; Poetry * '' Casa cu retori'', București, Editura Albatros, 1980. * ''Persoana de după-amiază'', Cluj, Editura Dacia, 1983. * ''La persoana a treia'', București, Editura Cartea Rom� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Creangă (writer)
Ion Creangă (; also known as Nică al lui Ștefan a Petrei, Ion Torcălău and Ioan Ștefănescu; March 1, 1837 – December 31, 1889) was a Moldavian, later Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th-century Romanian literature, he is best known for his '' Childhood Memories'' volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes. Creangă's main contribution to fantasy and children's literature includes narratives structured around eponymous protagonists (" Harap Alb", " Ivan Turbincă", " Dănilă Prepeleac", " Stan Pățitul"), as well as fairy tales indebted to conventional forms (" The Story of the Pig", " The Goat and Her Three Kids", " The Mother with Three Daughters-in-Law", " The Old Man's Daughter and the Old Woman's Daughter"). Widely seen as masterpieces of the Romanian language and local humor, his writings occupy the middle ground between a collection of folkloric sources and an original contribution to a literary realism of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petru Poantă
Petru is a given name, and may refer to: * Petru I of Moldavia (Petru Mușat, 1375–1391), ruler of Moldavia * Petru Aron (died 1467), ruler of Moldavia * Petru Bălan (born 1976), Romanian rugby union footballer * Petru Cărare (1935–2019), writer from Moldova * Petru Cercel (died 1590), voivode of Wallachia, polyglot * Petru Dugulescu (1945–2008), Romanian Baptist pastor, poet, and politician * Petru Filip (born 1955), current mayor of the municipality of Oradea * Petru Fudduni ( 1600–1670), poet * Petru Giovacchini (1910–1955), Corsican hero * Petru Groza (1884–1958), Romanian politician and Prime Minister * Petru Lucinschi (born 1940), Moldova's second president * Petru Luhan (born 1977), Romanian politician * Petru Maior ( 1756–1821), Romanian writer * Petru Mocanu (1931–2016), Romanian mathematician * Petru Pavel Aron (1709–1764), Romanian Greek-Catholic cleric and intellectual * Petru Poni (1841–1925), Romanian chemist * Petru Rareș ( 1487–1546), ruler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Lambert
Michel Lambert (1610 – 29 June 1696) was a French singer, theorbist, and composer. Career Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans, a brother of king Louis XIII. He studied also with Pierre de Nyert in Paris. Since 1636, he was known as a singing teacher. In 1641, he married singer Gabrielle Dupuis who died suddenly a year later. Their daughter Madeleine (1643–1720) married Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1662. After his marriage, Lambert's career became closely linked to his sister-in-law and famous singer Hilaire Dupuis (1625–1709). In 1651, he appears as a ballet dancer at the court of Louis XIV. Beginning in 1656, his reputation as a composer was established and his compositions were regularly printed by Ballard. They consist mainly of airs on poems of Benserade and Quinault. He was the most prolific composer of airs in the second half of the 17th century. In 1661, he succeeded Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (; March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection '' Goodbye, Columbus'', which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.Brauner (2005), pp. 43–47 Ten years later, he published the bestseller '' Portnoy's Complaint''. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history '' The Plot Against America''. Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for '' The Counterlife,'' the PEN/Fau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatole France
(; born ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.Anatole France, Great Author, Dies , ''The New York Times'', October 13, 1924, p.1 He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true French people, Gallic temperament". France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's ''In Search of Lost Time''. Early years The son of a bookseller, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy De Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly effortless ''dénouements''. Many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught up in events beyond their control, are permanently changed by their experiences. He wrote 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published story, " Boule de Suif" ("The Dumpling", 1880), is often considered his most famous work. Biography Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born on 5 August 1850 at the late 16th-century Château de Miromesnil (ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Moreau
Marcel Moreau (16 April 1933 − 4 April 2020) was a Belgian writer. He was born in Boussu, a town in the mining region of Borinage in Hainaut Province, into a working-class environment. He described it as "a pure cultural void" with "a total absence of any cultural reference point". He lost his father at the age of 15, and abandoned his studies a short time later. He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant's assistant in Brussels for the newspaper ''Le Peuple''. In 1955 he became a proof-reader for the daily ''Le Soir''. Marcel Moreau married in 1957 and fathered two children. In 1963 he published his first novel, ''Quintes'', notably praised by Simone de Beauvoir. Then followed ''Bannière de bave'' (Dribble Banner, 1965), ''La terre infestée d'hommes'' (Earth Infested with Men, 1966) and ''Le chant des paroxysmes'' (The Sound of Paroxysms, 1967). He moved to Paris in 1968, where he continued proof-reading. He worked for Alpha Encyclopédie, then for Le Parisien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry James
Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of Philosophy, philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between ''émigré ''Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as ''The Portrait of a Lady''. His later works, such as ''The Ambassadors'', ''The Wings of the Dove'' and ''The Golden Bowl'' were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in which ambiguous or contradictory motives and impressions were overlaid or juxtaposed in the discussion of a character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worldview
A worldview (also world-view) or is said to be the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and Perspective (cognitive), point of view. However, when two parties view the same real world phenomenon, their world views may differ, one including elements that the other does not. A worldview can include natural philosophy; fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics. Etymology The term ''worldview'' is a calque of the German word , composed of ('world') and ('perception' or 'view'). The German word is also used in English. It is a concept fundamental to German philosophy, especially epistemology and refers to a ''wide world perception''. Additionally, it refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs forming a global description through which an individual, group or culture watches and interprets the world (philosophy), world and interac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
