Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House

**Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House**
Title: 34 - CINCI BALADE POPULARE/ FIVE FOLK BALLADS 35 - ROMANIAN PROFILE.A Study of National Character as Reflected in the Visual Arts 36 - STEPS TOWARDS THE SACRED.From the Ethnology of Romanian Food Habits 37 - VLAD THE IMPALER (DRACULA) 38 - THE STORY OF ROMANIAN GASTRONOMY 39 - A NATION DISCOVERED: Romanian Intellectuals in Transylvania and the Idea of Nation 1700 - 1848 40 - CALUS. Symbolic Transformation in Romanian Ritual 41 - VIITORUL FACULTATIV. Poezii alese / OPTIONAL FUTURE. Selected poems 42 - TEN STEPS CLOSER TO ROMANIA 43 - ROMANIAN CAROLS 44 - COSMOS vs. CHAOS. Myth and magic in Romanian Traditional Culture 45 - ROMANIAN FOLK-CULTURE. An Introduction 46 - TARA MEA, LIMBA MEA. Zece poeti romani / MY COUNTRY, MY LANGUAGE. Ten Romanian Poets 47 - LITERATURE AND PROPAGANDA IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA 48 - POWER, PLAY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY. Politics of Modernization in Central and East-European Architecture. The Romanian File 49 - COOKERY BOOK. Romanian recipes 50 - AMERICA SEEN BY A QUEEN. Queen Marie's diary of her 1926 voyage to the United States of America 51 - SAVORY ROMANIAN DISHES AND CHOICE WINES				Full description: CINCI BALADE POPULARE/ FIVE FOLK BALLADS. Translated by W. D. Snodgrass, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest,1999, 80 p. The book contains the most important Romanian folk ballads: "Miorita" ("The Ewe Lamb"), "Mesterul Manole", ("Master Builder Manole"), "Soarele si Luna" ("The Sun and the Moon"), "Toma Alimos" ("Toma Alimos"), and "Damean si Sala" ("Damean and Sala"). The texts are translated by W.D. Snodgrass in cooperation with Simona Draghici, Ioan and Kittz Popa, Nicolae Babuti and Radu Lupan. Romanian / English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 - 577 -199 - 3 Donald Dunham ROMANIAN PROFILE. A Study of National Character as Reflected in the Visual Arts. Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Letters and Arts of the University of Bucharest, May 30, 1948, 166 p. +illustrations. A lively and knowledgeable study of the Romanian grassroots manifestations in the field of the visual arts which are undoubtedly most spontaneous, most sincere and most credible. Based on thought-out evidence, selected with a rare respect for truth and presented in clear, elegant and attractive form. Its author, Donald Dunham, is a distinguished American diplomat and remarkable writer. English. Cover by Eugen Alexandru Gustea. ISBN 973 - 577 - 202 - 7 Ofelia Vaduva STEPS TOWARDS THE SACRED. From the Ethnology of Romanian Food Habits. Translation from Romanian by Sorana Georgescu-Gorjan, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House/The Encyclopaedic Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 198 p. A senior researcher in the "C. Brailoiu" Institute of Ethnography and Folklore in Bucharest, Ofelia Vaduva studied popular food habits, pursuits, customs and contemporary artistic hadicrafts. This book deals with the ritual practices where food hold pride of place, and may be considered attempts at reaching the sacred, exceeding religious experience and entering man's everyday life. At the same time, they may be perceived as small steps on an imaginary road, towards the pure and mysterious world of the deities and forebears, in order to get acquainted with their intentions and to propitiate them. ISBN 973 - 45 - 0281 - 6 Stefan Andreescu VLAD THE IMPALER (DRACULA). Translated by Ioana Voia. The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 298 p. Vlad the Impaler`s legendary aura is probably due to the fact that no other Romanian voivode was ever faced with circumstances so extrordinary, when the Turkish Empire rising on the ruins of the millenary Byzantine Empire was not yet perceived as a balance factor of European politics. Ruler of Wallachia between 1456 and 1462, he would find himself caught between two worlds at clash. The first issue of the present monograph came out of press in 1976, to mark five hundred years since the departure of Voivode Vlad the Impaler. English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 - 577 - 197 -7 Matei Cazacu THE STORY OF ROMANIAN GASTRONOMY. Translated by Laura Beldiman, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 143 p. A most interesting history of Romanian gastronomy since the most ancient times written by an expert. The reader will discover how starting from foreign recipes, the Romanians developed their own cuisine which showed its best for a century ending around 1940 - 1948. English. Cover by Eugen Alexandru Gustea. Cover illustration: Pieter Breughel. ISBN 973 - 577 -204 - 3 Keith Hitchins A NATION DISCOVERED: Romanian Intellectuals in Transylvania and the Idea of Nation 1700 - 1848, The Encyclopaedic Publishing House / The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 230 p. This book is an attempt to trace the development of national consciousness and explain the nature of early modern nationalism among the Romanians of Transylvania in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century. It describes the gradual transformation of an identity that was initially religious and was based upon the Romanians' membership in the international Orthodox community into one that was secular and broadly European. ISBN 973 - 45 - 0276 - x Gail Kligman CALUS. Symbolic Transformation in Romanian Ritual. With a foreword by Mircea Eliade, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 287 p. The author presents an engaging and rich description of this ancient Romanian dance, its participants, ritual heading and plays. The deeper levels of cultural meanings are explored by analyzing the inversion of the socio-cultural order that occurs in ritual performance. A book of importance for scholars of ritual, anthropology, the history of religion, folklore, peasant studies and Eastern Europe. English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 - 577 -203 -5 Dorin Tudoran VIITORUL FACULTATIV. Poezii alese / OPTIONAL FUTURE. Selected poems. Translated by Marcel Cornis-Pop. Preface by Ion Bogdan Lefter, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 206 p. At first sight, the sarcasm of Dorin Tudoran's poems is ice-cold an icy itself; on the contrary, it is dramatic, pathetic and ardent. Always cerebral, always an "intellectualist", Tudoran has never ceased to be the "revolted man" in the line of Camus. The "coldness" in his verse has the intense vibration of great poetry. Romanian / English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 - 577 - 193 - 4 TEN STEPS CLOSER TO ROMANIA. Conceived by Antoaneta Tanasescu. Edited by Cipriana Petre. Translated by Adrian Bratfanof, Mihai Codreanu, Eduard Dedu, Ioana Ieronim, Mihnea Mircan, and Cosana Nicolae, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 273 p. This book does not depict Romania, nor tells its story. It is simply one image - one of the many possible, all equally real - of Romania, as it is today; a kaleidoscope which collects glimpses of the past, facts of the present, and hopes for the future. English. Cover design by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 - 577 - 215 - 9 Iosif Hertea ROMANIAN CAROLS. The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 3o3 p. The author studies the typology of Romanian carols in different chapters of the book, such as: "The language and functions of winter traditions", "The Carols and their texts", "The typology and the musical genres of the carol", "Star songs and other carols". The book also comprises a very substantial musical anthology. English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 - 577 - 213 - 2 Andrei Oisteanu COSMOS vs. CHAOS. Myth and magic in Romanian Traditional Culture. A comparative approach. Illustrated edition.. Translated from Romanian by Mirela Adascalitei, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 241 p. + ill. The book represents an attempt to reconstruct a pre- and proto-Romanian mythology. The author considers several mythic themes and motifs ("Stealing of the Stars", "The Romanian Legend of the Flood", "The Language of Angels" etc) that have so far been given little or no attention or have been dealt with from different points of view. These aspects of Romanian ethnic mythology are considered in an universal context, without using the tools of mechanical comparativism. English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu ISBN 973 - 577 - 198 -5 Nicolae Constantinescu ROMANIAN FOLK-CULTURE. An Introduction, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 160 p. This book wants to be a synthetic introduction to the universe of Romanian folkloric culture, a digest, a convenient guide for the foreign reader who would like to know as much as possible in a text as short as possible. The specialist has the possibility to enhance his information and to deepen his study by using the References at the end of the book, which are also concise but comprehensive. English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 - 577 - 210 - 8 TARA MEA, LIMBA MEA. Zece poeti romani / MY COUNTRY, MY LANGUAGE. Ten Romanian Poets. Translated by Eveline L. Kanes and Mihai Zaharia, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 182 p. Several of these poets have previously been selectively translated and published in this country. But this is the first time that work by this particular group, who wrote under such duress, has been assembled in one volume. With the exception of of Anatol E. Baconski and Nichita Stanescu, they lived to witness their country`s struggle to return to normality after 1989, and certainly all of them have remained at the forefront of Romanian literature. Romanian / English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 - 577 - 194 - 2 Eugen Negrici LITERATURE AND PROPAGANDA IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA. English version by Mihai Codreanu, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest,1999, 127 p. The main thesis of the author, an outstanding Romanian critic, is that nothing can be explained naturally in a literature which comes into existence under the pressures of a totalitarian government. Directly or indirectly, everything has to be regarded as a response, a reaction, a desperate or skilful defence-survival device. English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 975 - 577 - 214 - 0 Augustin Ioan POWER, PLAY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY. Politics of Modernization in Central and East-European Architecture. The Romanian File. Translated from Romanian by Stela Tinney, The Romanian CulturalFoundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 261 p. This book is the result of the author's older preoccupation with putting the problems of Romanian architecture in their proper context from a two-fold perspective. First, the book is about projecting them against the ampler backdrop of the architecture of their own time and place; secondly, it is about infusing contemporary methods of research in an area which, more than others, shows the wear of traditional modes of interrogating the object. Bibliography. English. Cover by Eugen Alexandru Gustea. ISBN 973 - 577 - 203 - 5 COOKERY BOOK. Romanian recipes. Translated by Felicia Marpozan. The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 107 p. This book contains the most delicious Romanian dishes, from "pork sour soup with sorrel" to "trout meatballs", from "giblet sour soup" to "Moldavian whirl with poppy", and from "watermelon preserves" to "pan-fried pork Baragan style". English. Cover and illustration by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 - 577 - 201 - 9 AMERICA SEEN BY A QUEEN. Queen Marie's diary of her 1926 voyage to the United States of America. Edited and with an Introduction by Adrian-Silvan Ionescu. The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 198 p. The book is the most accurate rendering of Queen Marie's trip to the states. She wrote daily of her most intimate impressions about places she saw and people she met. The reader is conquered by Queen Marie's skill of narrating the events and describing the people she met there. Contains photographs. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. ISBN 973 -577 - 175 - 6 SAVORY ROMANIAN DISHES AND CHOICE WINES, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, 127 p. The present edition is very close to the 1939 original in order to bring to life not just the recipes, but also to provide a glimpse of Romanian society at that time. The book offers the most authentic Romanian recipes, yet some cooking styles such as cooking with fat or lard have changed over time. Recipes which in 1939 called for the use of fat or lard and fat meats were replaced in this revised edition with oil and leaner types of meat. English. Cover by Floarea Tutuianu. Cover illustration: Juan Sanchez-Sotan, Fruit Still Life. ISBN 973 - 577 - 212 - 4