Trafika Europe 8 - Romanian Holiday

Trafika Europe 8 - Romanian Holiday Editor’swelcome Romania straddles two regions, Central- Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and is by far the biggest country in both. So its cultural variety and richness is no surprise. Some of today’s Romanian writers are trying better to come to terms with its traumatic 20 th -century; others are looking forward and outward, or otherwise very far back, for new literary inspiration. Here we’ve got eight current Romanian poets and fiction writers, exemplary all, yet with some wildly different strategies for writing (and living). Conceptual artist and poet Constantine Severin is steeped in our shared 20 th - century inheritance of European literary/

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