Matei Călinescu
Matei Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.
He attended the Ion Luca Caragiale High School in Bucharest, taking his diploma in 1952. He emigrated from Romania to the United States in 1973. Emeritus Professor at Indiana University. He lived with his wife in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Dan Stanca
Dan Stanca a debutat editorial cu romanul Vintul sau tipatul altuia. A lucrat multi ani la cotidianul Romania libera, unde a publicat sute de articole. De asemenea, prezenta sa in presa culturala, de la Romania literara la Luceafarul si de la Apostrof la Convorbiri literare, acopera un interval de peste doua decenii. Vocatia sa este insa aceea de romancier. A publicat pina in prezent 17 romane, dintre care amintim: Morminte stravezii, Muntele viu, Ritualul noptii, Mila frunzelor, Mut, Cei calzi si cei reci, Noaptea lui Iuda, A doua zi dupa moarte, Ultima biserica, Apocalips aminat. I s-a decernat de doua ori Premiul Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania si in alte doua rinduri a fost nominalizat la aceeasi distinctie. A primit premiul Asociatiei
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
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Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco -
Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
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Judith Butler
Judith Butler is an American post-structuralist and feminist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy and ethics. They are currently a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Butler received their Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, for a dissertation subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s they held several teaching and research appointments, and were involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism.
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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time.
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Terry Eagleton
Widely regarded as England's most influential living literary critic & theorist, Dr. Terry Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster and as Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the University of Oxford ('92-01) & John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester 'til '08. He returned to the University of Notre Dame in the Autumn '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Department.
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He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) & The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96).
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Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk was born in Canada, and spent some of her childhood in Los Angeles, before her family returned to England, in 1974, when Cusk was 8 years old. She read English at New College, Oxford.
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Cusk is the Whitbread Award–winning author of two memoirs, including The Last Supper, and seven novels, including Arlington Park, Saving Agnes, The Temporary, The Country Life, and The Lucky Ones.
She has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes: her most recent novel, Outline (2014), was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmith's Prize and the Bailey's prize, and longlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'
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Thomas Savage
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Antoine Compagnon
Professeur de littérature française à la Sorbonne, à l'université Columbia de New York et au Collège de France
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Né le 20 juillet 1950 à Bruxelles, dans une famille de six enfants. Son père, le général Jean Compagnon fait la guerre de 1940 puis les guerres d’Indochine et d’Algérie. Orphelin de mère à quatorze ans, il passe son enfance à Londres, Tunis, Washington et fait sa classe de rhétorique dans un lycée militaire de la Sarthe.
Ancien élève de l'Ecole polytechnique, ingénieur des ponts et chaussées et docteur ès lettres, Antoine Compagnon est maître de conférences à l'Ecole polytechnique (1978-1985), professeur à l'Institut français du Royaume-Uni à Londres (1980-1981), à l'université Columbia à New York depuis 1985, à l'université du Mans -
Franco Moretti
Franco Moretti is an Italian literary scholar, trained as a Marxist critic, whose work focuses on the history of the novel as a "planetary form". He has written five books, Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 (1998), and Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005). His recent work is notable for importing, not without controversy, quantitative methods from the social sciences into domains that have traditionally belonged to the humanities. To date, his books have been translated into fifteen languages.
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Slavenka Drakulić
Slavenka Drakulić (1949) is a noted Croatian writer and publicist, whose books have been translated into many languages.
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In her fiction Drakulić has touched on a variety of topics, such as dealing with illness and fear of death in Holograms of fear; the destructive power of sexual desire in Marble skin; an unconventional relationship in The taste of a man; cruelty of war and rape victims in S. A Novel About the Balkans (made into a feature film As If I Am Not There, directed by Juanita Wilson); a fictionalized life of Frida Kahlo in Frida's bed. In her novel Optužena (English translation forthcoming), Drakulić writes about the not often addressed topic of child abuse by her own mother. In her novel Dora i Minotaur Drakulic writes about Dora -
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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 -
Arto Paasilinna
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
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Liviu Rebreanu
Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.
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Born in Târlişua (currently Bistriţa-Năsăud County), Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was the second of thirteen children born to Vasile Rebreanu, a schoolteacher, and Ludovica Diuganu, descendants of peasants. His father had been a classmate of George Coşbuc's and was an amateur folklorist. Liviu Rebreanu went to primary school in Maieru (where he was taught by his father), and then in Năsăud and Bistriţa, to military school at Sopron and then to the military academy in Budapest. He worked as an officer in Gyula but resigned in 1908, and in 1909 illegally crossed the Transylvanian Alps into Romania, and lived in Bucharest.
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Max Blecher
Blecher's father was a successful Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. Blecher attended primary and secondary school in Roman, Romania. After receiving his baccalaureat, Blecher left for Paris to study medicine. Shortly thereafter, in 1928, he was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis (Pott's disease) and forced to abandon his studies. He sought treatment at various sanatoriums: Berck-sur-Mer in France, Leysin in Switzerland and Tekirghiol in Romania.
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For the remaining ten years of his life, he was confined to his bed and practically immobilized by the disease. Despite his illness, he wrote and published his first piece in 1930, a short story called "Herrant" in Tudor Arghezi's literary magazine Bilete de papagal. He contributed -
Garabet Ibrăileanu
Garabet Ibraileanu(Romanian pronunciation: [ɡaraˈbet ibrə.iˈle̯anu]) was a Romanian-Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, translator, sociologist, Iaşi University professor (1908-1934), and, together with Paul Bujor and Constantin Stere, for long main editor of the Viaţa Românească literary magazine between 1906 and 1930. He published many of his works under the pen name Cezar Vraja.
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Cristian Popescu
Deși a murit în 1995, la vârsta de 36 de ani, Cristian Popescu este considerat unul dintre cei mai importanti poeți ai anilor 90 și unul dintre cei mai proeminenți membri ai cenaclului literar Universitas condus de criticul literar și profesorul Mircea Martin.
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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. -
Miruna Vlada
Miruna Vlada s-a nascut la 17 august 1986, la Bucuresti. A publicat prima poezie in revista Luceafarul in martie 2003, cu o prezentare de Octavian Soviany. A debutat, in anul 2004, cu volumul de versuri Poemextrauterine. A obtinut: Premiul de Debut (in revista) al Asociatiei Scriitorilor din Bucuresti, Premiul de Debut al revistei Luceafarul si Premiul de Debut „Horatiu Ioan Lascu” al filialei USR, Iasi. Este prezenta in antologia de poezie Generatia 2000, coordonata de Marin Mincu. A obtinut Premiul al III-lea la Concursul PIJA (Prix International Jeunes Auteurs), Liege, Belgia, in iulie 2005, la sectiunea nuvele in limba franceza. Este prezenta cu textul cistigator si in antologia PIJA 2005. Contes et nouvelles. Recueil de textes laureats
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Ştefan Manasia
Ștefan Manasia a inițiat în 2008, la Cluj, alături de Szántai János și François Bréda, clubul de lectură „Nepotu’ lui Thoreau”. Este redactor al revistei „Tribuna” din 2003, an în care a debutat cu volumul Amazon și alte poeme, urmat de Cartea micilor invazii (2008), Motocicleta de lemn (2011), Bonobo sau cucerirea spațiului (2013), Cerul senin (2015), Gustul cireșelor (2017) și antologia Etica grunge. Sîntem generația extincției. Poeme alese 2003-2023 (2023).
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De asemenea, este autorul volumului de publicistică și critică literară Stabilizator de aromă (2016), al romanului Cronovizorul (2020) și al nuvelei Platanii din Samothraki (2022). -
Dan Stanca
Dan Stanca a debutat editorial cu romanul Vintul sau tipatul altuia. A lucrat multi ani la cotidianul Romania libera, unde a publicat sute de articole. De asemenea, prezenta sa in presa culturala, de la Romania literara la Luceafarul si de la Apostrof la Convorbiri literare, acopera un interval de peste doua decenii. Vocatia sa este insa aceea de romancier. A publicat pina in prezent 17 romane, dintre care amintim: Morminte stravezii, Muntele viu, Ritualul noptii, Mila frunzelor, Mut, Cei calzi si cei reci, Noaptea lui Iuda, A doua zi dupa moarte, Ultima biserica, Apocalips aminat. I s-a decernat de doua ori Premiul Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania si in alte doua rinduri a fost nominalizat la aceeasi distinctie. A primit premiul Asociatiei
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Angela Marinescu
Numele Angela Marinescu este un pseudonim, numele real fiind Basaraba-Angela Marcovici. A folosit și pseudonimul Basaraba Matei. Este fiica lui Marius Marcovici, funcționar superior la Prefectura orașului Arad, și a Mariei (n. Martiș), profesoară de educație fizică și campioană națională la schi și la înot. Tatăl poetei descinde din familia lui Simion Marcovici, important intelectual al Banatului, la care a poposit în peregrinările sale Mihai Eminescu. Este mama poetului și publicistului Alexandru Matei. Angela Marinescu a făcut gimnastică la sol (era cea mai bună din Arad), înot și volei. O tuberculoză gravă i-a marcat tinerețea, mai exact între 15 și 26 de ani. S-a decis să studieze medicina, absolvind în final Facultatea de Psihologie de
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Fernanda Melchor
Nací en el puerto de Veracruz. Escribí el libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami y las novelas Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Páradais.
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I was born in Veracruz, Mexico. I wrote the non-fiction book Aquí no es Miami and the novels Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Paradais. -
Stefan Ahnhem
”As a kid, I never dreamt of being a writer. Putting letters in the right order to form words did not come easily to me. In school, while the rest of my class had Swedish lessons, a strange-smelling lady would pull me out of the classroom to play with wooden blocks painted with colourful letters.
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For as long as I can remember, however, I have been a passionate storyteller. Growing up as an only child undoubtedly sparked my creativity, and all the hours spent playing by myself fed my vivid imagination. My grandfather’s rocking chair was a marvellous spacecraft able to transport me to all the planets in the universe. And the world map that my teacher stubbornly refused to pull down revealed precisely where the secret treasure was buried.
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Gheorghe Crăciun
Gheorghe Craciun (1950-2007), prozator, eseist, teoretician literar si editor, unul dintre reprezentantii de marca ai postmodernismului romanesc, a absolvit Facultatea de Filologie din Bucuresti si a fost profesor la Facultatea de Litere a Universitatii „Transilvania” din Brasov si director editorial la Editura Paralela 45. A publicat romane – Acte originale/Copii legalizate (1982), Compunere cu paralele inegale (1988), tradus in limba franceza de Odile Serre si publicat in 2001, cu titlul Composition aux paralleles inegales, la Editura Maurice Nadeau, insotit de o consistenta prefata, semnata de Serge Fauchereau, Frumoasa fara corp (1993), Pupa russa (2004) –, volume de eseuri, teorie literara si publicistica, precum si volumul de proza sc
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Miruna Vlada
Miruna Vlada s-a nascut la 17 august 1986, la Bucuresti. A publicat prima poezie in revista Luceafarul in martie 2003, cu o prezentare de Octavian Soviany. A debutat, in anul 2004, cu volumul de versuri Poemextrauterine. A obtinut: Premiul de Debut (in revista) al Asociatiei Scriitorilor din Bucuresti, Premiul de Debut al revistei Luceafarul si Premiul de Debut „Horatiu Ioan Lascu” al filialei USR, Iasi. Este prezenta in antologia de poezie Generatia 2000, coordonata de Marin Mincu. A obtinut Premiul al III-lea la Concursul PIJA (Prix International Jeunes Auteurs), Liege, Belgia, in iulie 2005, la sectiunea nuvele in limba franceza. Este prezenta cu textul cistigator si in antologia PIJA 2005. Contes et nouvelles. Recueil de textes laureats
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Laura Francisca Pavel
Laura Francisca Pavel a publicat în 2022 volumul de poezie Trucuri urbane (Premiul BAC-FEST pentru Cartea de poezie a anului 2022). Versiunea în limba franceză, cu titlul Scénarios urbains, în traducerea semnată de Gabrielle Danoux, a apărut în 2024 la Nombre7 Éditions.
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În 2023 îi apare volumul de poezie Acţiuni şi protocoale, la OMG, iar în 2024 publică, tot la OMG, volumul Zona de surescitare.
Semnează, cu numele Laura Pavel, mai multe volume de teorie şi de critică literară şi teatrală.