de Valery Oisteanu traducere de Simona Sămulescu [masterandă MTTLC] click here for the English version Furia lui Sandy în Orașul Lumânărilor. Note din timpul detenției în regim celular pe perioada inundației. Imediat dupa 20:30, luni, 29 octombrie 2012, eram la telefon cu unchiul Morris din Princeton, N.J; tocmai îmi spunea cum s-a […]
Escape from SoPo (South of Power)
by Valery Oisteanu click aici pentru versiunea română The wrath of Sandy in the City of Candles. Notes on solitary confinement during the deluge Shortly after 8.30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, I was on the phone with my Uncle Morris in Princeton, N.J.; he was just telling me how he had […]
Bicicleta lui Kafka
de Valery Oisteanu (USA) for the English version, click here Franz a fost observat pedalând pe podul Charles Bridge, pedalând cumva înapoi, mişcându-se invers spre Biserica Sf. Nicolae, unde avea un mic apartament. Praga era întunecată şi apa râului Vltava crescuse la maximum. A început o ploaie şi el se grăbea să intre […]
Kafka’s Bicycle
by Valery Oisteanu (USA) pentru versiunea română click aici Franz was spotted on the Charles Bridge riding backwards toward St. Nicholas Church Place, where he had a small apartment. Prague was getting dark, and the Vltava River swelled to the max. A rain started and he hurried inside the apartment, where the air was quiet […]
Standardland
by Valery Oisteanu [USA] The City Where It Was Illegal to Die Standardland is hot and dry. The asphalt melts under your shoes and seems to float away into the traffic. Dilapidated cars sit abandoned on the central boulevard next to the fashion mall. In the city where it is forbidden to die, the inhabitants […]