(story to be published in tomorrow’s issue, March 24)
Aside from the renowned parties that the famous Club A on Blanari street organises, it also initiated a little while ago some Romanian poetry nights, meant to bring to the attention of the Romanian audience some very talented contemporary poets. Although they had not run out of contemporary poets, the people at Club A thought that it would be a good thing to alternate poetry with prose and thus, today at 18.00 they organised with the help of Alfa Publishing House a local prose night focussing on the anthologies created by Dan Silviu Boerescu, the direction critic for the ’90s generation and host of the manifestation. Dan-Silviu Boerescu graduated from the Philology Faculty in Bucharest and is now editor-in-chief at the Romanian variant of the Playboy magazine, director of the “Art-panorama” magazine and Secretary of the Critics section at the Romanian Writers Union. He received the Critics Prize of the Bucharest Writers Association, the Poesis Prize (1990, 1991, 1997) and for the “A soft spot for cats” critics volume he received the Grand Prize of the South (1997), the Tomis Prize(1997) and the Convorbiri literare prize in 1998. The anthologies that Dan-Silviu Boerescu created: “Party with ugly women. The best stories” (1995-1996), and “Don Quixote, the Prostitute and other stories” (1999),”Subversive Love. The best stories” (1997), “The nudist’s beach. The best stories” (1998) will be discussed by special guests Alex atefanescu, literary critic, Augustin Fratila – director of the Allfa Publishing House. Among the authors included in the anthologies, the following announced their presence: Cezar Paul Badescu, Florin Chirculescu, George Cusnarencu, Ioana Dragan, Mihail Galatanu, Horia Garbea, Costi Gurgu, Razvan Petrescu, Liviu Radu, Jean Lorin Sterian and Catalin ?arlea. “Party with ugly women” was based on samples representative for the contemporary Romanian prose: 38 authors and over 250 texts that appeared in more than 40 literary publications. “Subversive Love” includes 22 of the best stories of the year 1997. The third annual prose anthology, the “The nudist’s beach” is a panorama of the national story production and it includes very different types of texts ranging from sketch to novel. The final section includes bibliographical references for the 22 authors included in the anthology.