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Man, The New Rat

[fragment from the novel “A Psychop’s Notebook” (in Romanian: “Caietul Psihopatului”), Herg Benet Publishers, 2015] by Ștefan Bolea translated by Ana-Maria Văduva [MTTLC] click pentru versiunea română   13th April, 1998 (Cluj) Cowards, the key to the human spirit is self-loathing! Six months since I gave up smoking. I need to expiate for my pain. Death is […]

Sanctuary

by Mircea Pricăjan translated by Adrian Bucur [MTTLC] click pentru versiunea română He couldn’t have said that he had a good memory of when he had entered a church for the first time and, after all, it didn’t matter, for he had certainly been taken there in his youth, by his mother, perhaps during Easter, […]

poems by A.J. Huffman

I Dream in Breathless   night.  My body smothered in darkness, radiates a solid that should not be. I struggle against invisible ropes more stagnant than my skin, inhale the smoke generated by imaginary friction. Sadly, I know there is no hope of bursting into salvatory flames.         A Fly Buzzed   […]

The artist who does have something in common with us: Hans Laban

by Adrian Ioniță click pentru versiunea română     To commemorate the tercentenary of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), the Utrecht Foundation KF Hein released in 2012, the Art Of Making Peace project. The winner of this project, Hans Laban, a graphic artist from Utrecht, presented in 2013: We do have something in common, a […]

Gardair in Timişoara

EgoNews-Living the Moment (Diplomatic Art, Galeriile Bastionului Theresa, 12.11-12.12.2015) by Adrian Ioniță translated by Andrei-Radu Bîrsan [MTTLC] click pentru versiunea română Julien GARDAIR is the prototype of an artist globetrotter who does not waste time in one place. It seems that he has the metabolism of a man in contact with the vibration of the […]

Time of science, time of man

by Ana Bazac   I   One of the most frequent and, at the same time, dangerous epistemological faults of the contemporary thinkers – and indeed, only these ones are blind, since the former have only discovered the significances of time – is the homogenization of situations, images and concepts related to man. Philosophy works, […]

The Typology of Initiatory Journey (in the Romanian Folktales)

by Mihai-Andrei Aldea translation by: Sorina Gheorghe   The Typology of Initiatory Journey (in the Romanian Folktales)………………………………………………. 1 The Typology of Initiatory Journey (in the Romanian Folktales)………………………………………………. 2 The Initiatory Journey – Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………… 2 The Initiatory Journey in the Romanian Fantasy Folktales……………………………………………….. 8 II.a. The Extraordinary and the Estrangement……………………………………………………………………. 8 II.b. A Brief Attempt at […]

poems by Ian Smith

Song as Axiomatic Password   Driving in rain, radio on, Moby’s Mistake, the slow start redolent of regret then the beat insistent as grief swoops, leaves me depleted. I could have died a dozen deaths but lived. Wrenched apart by a song. A song?   Edge of night I heard the iron cries of trams […]

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