We rarely go out late these days. Beyond visiting venues for Bucharest In Your Pocket review purposes, we are far happier to spend our nights in bed with a good book (currently The Shadow of the Sun, by the greatest foreign correspondent in history, Ryszard Kapuściński, if you must know).
Anyway, this Saturday we might just be tempted to a night on the tiles. For it is not often that an event takes place in Bucharest that makes you say to yourself ‘I really have to see this.’
The event in question? A Romanian Joy Division tribute band, at Control Club.
It will probably be more Atrocity Exhibition than Day of the Lords, but who knows?
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Agreed about Kapuściński. Superb writer.
Hope the concert is good.
Actually the scenery from 1700 and something and all the way to 1907 was so much packed with peasants’ uprisings that anything else was hardly noticeable…
I can tell you one thing though: the most important Romanian writers have their entire opera centered around life at the countryside, peasants, boyars, the struggle for land etc…
Very few of them have travelled abroad, mostly in Paris or Vienna with the purpose of academic study and even fewer from this cathegory are epical-type writers, most of them wrote poems. That is before 1945.
After 1945 it’s even more clear – everyone stayed home.
I think the most writings made by Romanian authors about territories situated outside the current borders of Romania are chronicles which date from the 1700′s.
Personally I don’t remember to have studied in school any writing with it’s action based outside the current borders of Romania but I have studied writings about peasants and their struggle for land enough for a lifetime.
Do Romanians read any thing else than newspapers?
They don’t appear to read those anymore either.
Imperium is particularly good.
Seriously thinking of buying the Romanian-language rights. Have checked in the past and the man appears never to have been translated.
He is pretty amazing. Would the Romanians be happy reading about the exploits of a Pole?
I wonder who, if anyone, the Romanian equivalent of Kapucsinski would have been and what they were getting up to?
That is the question: he is a Pole and in these parts that means he is almost a Russian. Sales would be low probably.
As for a Romanian of his ilk, I will have an ask around. They must have had foreign correspondents, though probably only in comfy places like Moscow, Paris and London. Kapucsinski was I think a genuine one-off.
See you there mate.