Andrei Pleșu

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  Gabriel Liiceanu

  Gabriel Liiceanu este un filozof, interpret și scriitor român. Discipol al filozofului Constantin Noica, în perioada comunistă s-a făcut remarcat ca interpret al filozofului german Martin Heidegger. Din 1990 este directorul Editurii Humanitas, una dintre cele mai importante instituții culturale române, proiect formulat în anii Școlii de la Păltiniș.
  
  După Revoluția din 1989 a participat la principalele dezbateri publice din spațiul cultural și politic românesc, dobândind statutul de intelectual public important, dar stârnind în același timp și critici acerbe. În 1995 a apărut filmul documentar Apocalipsa după Cioran, după un scenariu de Gabriel Liiceanu, conținând singurul interviu românesc filmat al filozofului Emil Cioran. După 2000, a real

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  Panait Istrati

  Panait Istrati was a Romanian working-class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.
  
  Born in Brăila, Istrati was the son of the laundress Joița Istrate and of a Greek smuggler from the village of Faraklata in Kefalonia (whom Panait never met).
  
  His first attempts at writing date from around 1907 when he started sending pieces to the socialist periodicals in Romania, debuting with the article, Hotel Regina in România Muncitoare. Here, he later published his first short stories, Mântuitorul ("The Redeemer"), Calul lui Bălan ("Bălan's Horse"), Familia noastră ("Our Family"), 1 Mai ("May Day"). He also contributed pieces to

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  Constantin Noica

  Constantin Noica s-a născut la 12 iulie (stil vechi) 1909 în comuna Vitănești, județul Vlașca (în prezent în județul Teleorman).
  
  Începe gimnaziul în București; în perioada 1924-1928 urmează Liceul „Spiru Haret”, unde îl are ca profesor de matematică pe poetul Uvedenrodelor, Ion Barbu (Dan Barbilian). Obține bacalaureatul în 1928.
  
  Ca licean, debutează în revista liceului, Vlăstarul, în 1927 cu eseuri care au fost publicate în anul 1934 în volumul „Mathesis sau bucuriile simple”.
  
  Se înscrie la Facultatea de Filosofie și Litere din București, pe care o va absolvi în 1931 cu teza de licență Problema lucrului în sine la Kant. Timp de trei ani îl are ca profesor pe filosoful Nae Ionescu. Din 1965 se stabilește în București, unde va lucra ca cercetăt

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  John Scalzi

  John Scalzi, having declared his absolute boredom with biographies, disappeared in a puff of glitter and lilac scent.
  
  (If you want to contact John, using the mail function here is a really bad way to do it. Go to his site and use the contact information you find there.)

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  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Genevan philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau held that society usually corrupts the essentially good individual; his works include The Social Contract and Émile (both 1762).
  
  This important figure in the history contributed to political and moral psychology and influenced later thinkers. Own firmly negative view saw the post-hoc rationalizers of self-interest, apologists for various forms of tyranny, as playing a role in the modern alienation from natural impulse of humanity to compassion. The concern to find a way of preserving human freedom in a world of increasingly dependence for the satisfaction of their needs dominates work. This concerns a material dimension and a more important psychological dimensions. Rousseau a fact

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  Mircea Cărtărescu

  Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.
  
  Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
  
  Among his writings: "Nostalgia" (a full edition of the earlier published "Visul"), 1993, "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, "Enc

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  Emil M. Cioran

  Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression, Emil Cioran wrote his first five books in Romanian. Some of these are collections of brief essays (one or two pages, on average); others are collections of aphorisms. Suffering from insomnia since his adolescent years in Sibiu, the young Cioran studied philosophy in the “little Paris” of Bucarest.
  
  A prolific publicist, he became a well-known figure, along with Mircea Eliade, Constantin Noïca, and his future close friend Eugene Ionesco (with whom he shared the Royal Foundation’s Young Writers Prize in 1934 for his first book, On the Heights of Despair).

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  Leo Tolstoy

  Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and soc

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  Gabriel Liiceanu

  Gabriel Liiceanu este un filozof, interpret și scriitor român. Discipol al filozofului Constantin Noica, în perioada comunistă s-a făcut remarcat ca interpret al filozofului german Martin Heidegger. Din 1990 este directorul Editurii Humanitas, una dintre cele mai importante instituții culturale române, proiect formulat în anii Școlii de la Păltiniș.
  
  După Revoluția din 1989 a participat la principalele dezbateri publice din spațiul cultural și politic românesc, dobândind statutul de intelectual public important, dar stârnind în același timp și critici acerbe. În 1995 a apărut filmul documentar Apocalipsa după Cioran, după un scenariu de Gabriel Liiceanu, conținând singurul interviu românesc filmat al filozofului Emil Cioran. După 2000, a real

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
  
  George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
  People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
  
  With this key figure of German literature, th

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  Lucian Blaga

  Lucian Blaga was a Romanian philosopher, poet, and playwright. He was a commanding personality of the Romanian culture of the inter-bellum period. He was a philosopher and writer higly acclaimed for his originality, a university professor and a diplomat.
  
  
  

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  Octavian Paler

  Octavian Paler was born on July 2, 1926 in a small village called Lisa in Brasov, Romania. He is a writer, journalist and editor and he comments the political and cultural events in Romania.
  
  He attended classes at the primary school in his birth village and after went to the Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest. He went to the Law College and Literature and Philosophy College at the same time.
  
  Between 1974 and 1979 he was a substitute member of the PCR (Romanian Communist Party) and between 1980 and 1985 he was a MAN deputy of Vaslui.
  
  In 1976 he was chosen President of Journalists' Council and for 13 years, since 1970 chief editor of the central newspaper "Romania Libera".
  
  He was vice president of TVR (Romanian Television) and because the Secur

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  Ioana Pârvulescu

  Ioana Pârvulescu este o eseistă, publicistă, critic literar român și conferențiar la Universitatea din București. (Wikipedia)

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  José Saramago

  José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today."
  
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  Radu Paraschivescu

  Radu Paraschivescu was born in 1960 in Bucharest, and grew up in Lugoj (Timiş), where he suffered a severe regime on home made chocolate, sugar candy and Doboş cake; he was accustomed to the idea that life is sweet and must be greedily crunched.
  
  He is a translator and co-author of two reference works in the sports literature (Larousse Encyclopedia of footbal and Athens Olympic Games in Athens: 1896-2004). He translated nearly sixty books of English, American, Canadian and French authors.
  
  He published two novels (Efemeriada şi Balul fantomelor), a volume of stories about Bucharest (Bazar bizar) and one essay about dishonesty in sports (Fanionul roșu - 2005), for which he received the "Ioan Chirilă" National Award for best sports book of the ye

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  Mihail Drumeş

  Mihail Drumeş (n. Mihail V. Dumitrescu, 26 noiembrie 1901, Ohrida, Macedonia - d. 7 februarie 1982, Bucureşti) a fost un romancier român, foarte popular in perioada interbelică.
  
  Fiul lui Vasilie Dimitrie (devenit Dumitrescu) şi al Despinei (n. Gero). Familia sa, la origine aromână, se stabileşte în Oltenia.
  Liceul l-a urmat la Caracal şi Craiova, bacalaureatul l-a obţinut în 1925. Urmează Facultatea de litere şi filozofie a Universităţii din Bucureşti, absolvită în 1928. O vreme funcţionează ca profesor de liceu, va trece mai apoi în învăţământul superior.
  Debut la revista Flamura în 1922, debut editorial cu volumul de nuvele şi schiţe Capcana in 1927. Între anii 1922 şi 1924 Teatrul Naţional din Craiova îi înscrie în repertoriu piesa Rămăşagu

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  Narine Abgaryan

  Наринэ Абгарян
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  Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award.

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  Seneca

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger); ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero, who later forced him to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to have him assassinated.

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  Augustine of Hippo

  Early church father and philosopher Saint Augustine served from 396 as the bishop of Hippo in present-day Algeria and through such writings as the autobiographical Confessions in 397 and the voluminous City of God from 413 to 426 profoundly influenced Christianity, argued against Manichaeism and Donatism, and helped to establish the doctrine of original sin.
  
  An Augustinian follows the principles and doctrines of Saint Augustine.
  
  People also know Aurelius Augustinus in English of Regius (Annaba). From the Africa province of the Roman Empire, people generally consider this Latin theologian of the greatest thinkers of all times. He very developed the west. According to Jerome, a contemporary, Augustine renewed "the ancient Faith."
  
  The

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  Igor Bergler

  Igor Bergler a studiat, în perioada 1991 - 1995, regie de film la Universitatea Ecologică Bucureşti, iar, între 1993 - 1997, comunicaţii audiovizuale, la Academia de Teatru şi Film Bucureşti. Are în palmares şapte scurtmetraje, două mediumetraje şi două lungmetraje, în calitate de regizor şi scenarist. A fost, de asemenea, redactor şi realizator de emisiuni.

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