Bucharesters
The lives of people living in Ceaușescu’s Romania
With meticulous realism, Bucharesters describes the lives of ordinary people living in Ceaușescu’s Romania. The regime is never placed at center stage: we glimpse it in the background in the stultifying conformity, the entrenched power relations, and the tedium of everyday life under those restrictions. At center stage are fundamental human emotions: longing, loneliness, love, insecurity, anxiety, anger, fear, shame, bitterness, and the moments of tenderness, hope, or sudden revelation that fitfully illuminate these ordinary lives.
Hands Behind My Back
Selected Poems, translation by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath
If anybody except a poet were saying the things Sorescu says in his poems, he or she would be found insane. But this is what poetry should be doing, putting this kind of material into rational form." (Russell Edson) In this collection the Romanian's poems are expertly translated by two other Romanian writers and Stuart Friebert, with an introduction by noted Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
Theatre, Magic and Philosophy
William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy
Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history.
Shakespeare
Ermetismo, mistica, magia
Gabriela Dragnea arricchisce l’ampissima produzione critica dedicata a Shakespeare con un’opera che si distingue per l’originalità del metodo. Questo libro si caratterizza per un approccio libero dai consueti formalismi accademici, adottando uno stile chiaro e scorrevole. L’analisi si concentra direttamente sui testi shakespeariani, mettendoli in relazione con la tradizione teatrale elisabettiana e con le influenze mistiche e magiche dell’epoca.