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Against Reading. A Farce.

by Patrick Călinescu       His domed chest was rising to the rhythm of his irregular breathing (which had actually succeeded in making the altitude at which the act of breathing had put his chest relative to what was  generally understood by elevation)—his hands, holding the book on the indefinite surface of the bumpy […]

Pastel

by Patrick Călinescu     A spot of light showed in the sky pressing against what mere instants ago had barely been the faint contour of a feeble cloud. Through the luminous entrance to the eternally atmospherically observant world tossing beneath it, a shaft, seemingly of nothing, began its descent from the invisible regions of […]

Tomcat Hell

by Bogdan Mureşanu translation from Romanian by Alexandra Sârbu [MTTLC]   The mistress is lying idly on the divan while grabbing lazily a lemonade carafe. Just then a bead happens to glide from her red lips towards her empty chest, and then there down towards the breasts’ parting. My eyes go blear and my mind […]

poems by Michael Heller

presented by Raluca Tanasescu click aici pentru versiunea română   MICHAEL HELLER (b. 1937) is an American objectivist poet, of Jewish and Romanian origins, who has published over twenty volumes of poetry, essays and memoirs. His newest book is This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010. Other recent works include: Eschaton (2009), a book […]

poems by Felino A. Soriano

[from Of these spiraled identities]   XXXVIII   of this stone in-hand or hand-on stone’s relevant belly                                    the soldered speckles of bluegreen asterisks                                    walking from cold onto the warming U-turns

American SF literature in Romania: Ray Bradbury – „Fahrenheit 451”

[translation: Petre Solomon, Paladin Publishing, 2013] (a reader’s guide to fantasy) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron   click aici pentru versiunea română     Ray Bradbury (1920-2012… another recent, immense loss for culture) is considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He wrote SF literature, „fantasy” literature, […]

Ana Antonescu and the new series of the Anticipaţia (issue 1-6) Collection of SF Short-Stories

(a reader’s guide to fantasy) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron   click aici pentru versiunea română   An exceptional phenomenon for the lovers of fantasy literature occurred in the fall of 2012 thanks to Nemira Publishing: the revival of the Anticipaţia Almanac and the magazine Collection of SF Short-Stories (book form, […]

The God of Oblivion

by Patrick Călinescu   Many years ago I decided to stop being a theist. I simply can’t believe in the existence of god. Yesterday I also decided to stop being an atheist. I simply can’t believe in the non-existence of god either.   I know that many think that god is either existence that has […]

The Three Brides Of The Portrait Painter

by Oliviu Crâznic Her eyes of starlight honey, her hair the golden wine, I was to paint her portrait, and then we were to dine; Her body dressed in lilies, all blossomed on her bloom, I said the words, I touched her – the White Bride left the room.   I tried to cope with passion, […]

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