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Don’t be a Taliban [en]

(from atheism to agnosticism and back) [I] [Alister McGrath şi Joanna Collicutt McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine, translation by Mihnea Gafiţa, Curtea Veche, Bucureşti, 2010.] by Ştefan Bolea translation from Romanian by: Iris Butnariu [MTTLC student] click aici pentru versiunea română   1. Denouncing the belief as delusion […]

The devil is the pitiful god

by Patrick Călinescu translation from Romanian by: A C Clarke & Stela Cucu [MTTLC student] click aici pentru versiunea română   Today I am completely free. Tomorrow I will see what the first thing to chain me will be. But, still, let me rejoice at the time that I have been given to live unimpeded […]

Golden Retriever

by Gheorghe Recheşan [România] translated from Romanian by: A C Clarke & Alexandra Sârbu pentru versiunea română click aici   1. The frayed pale-grey rope was wet. It had been raining almost all night and the fibres were wet through. Drops of dirty water were trickling from the dog’s yellow-grey fur, a shaggy dog as […]

The Grass on the Walls

by Adrian Sângeorzan [USA] translated from Romanian by: Alina -Olimpia Miron pentru versiunea română click aici   We left at the beginning of winter and in two weeks’ time we arrived there. In full summer. I was nine and I suddenly realized that my own concept of time and space was rather crooked, like a […]

Cherry Cream

by Alexandru Potcoavă [Romania] translated by: Alina-Olimpia Miron [MTTLC] & Philippa Lawrence pentru versiunea română click aici    The poplar leaves were rustling gently, spun by the warm July wind.  Beyond the row of tall trees, the stone-faced embankment, topped with gleaming railway lines, ran like a rampart from Timisoara to Şag Timişeni. On this side […]

How I started kiling my neighbours on a February afternoon

by Cristina Nemerovschi [Romania] translated from Romanian by Philippa Lawrence & Ioana Vilcu [MTTLC student] click aici pentru versiunea română Today I threw away my address book, TV, and mobile phone. I erased all my online contacts and cut the Internet cable. I found an old mobile which still contained the phone numbers of some […]

Good morning darling

by Carmen Firan [USA] translated from Romanian by: Alina Roşu [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici   It had stopped snowing for a long time and now a swift piercing wind had laid siege to the town blowing the snow as if a mantle of white pepper that cut your face and heated your […]

White Roses

by Cornel Nistea [Romania] translated from Romanian by: Nigel Walker & Alina-Olimpia Miron pentru versiunea română click aici   Many years later, I came across T. on the street. She didn’t look well at all. She had lost so much weight and had such a tired appearance, I almost didn’t recognize her. I instantly asked […]

Letter from the after-sea

by Coriolan Chelu [Romania] translated from Romanian by: Angela Kirby & Mirona Palas [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici Hi there!   You know I have been at the seaside this summer but I haven’t told you what came next. How I entered the block of flats with my luggage on my back and […]

The disease

by Mihai Batea [Romania] translated from Romanian by: Maria Jastrzebska & Monica Ţone [MTTLC student] click aici pentru versiunea română   The little boy whines. He is not hungry, he doesn’t like anything and has no appetite. George Hencoop is annoyed, he shouts at him: ‘Don’t be picky, tuck in and go to bed!’. Mother […]

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