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Teenmagz Cultural Personalities from Prahova

Teenmagz Cultural Personalities from Prahova

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November 2016

"People are birds with wings growing inside" (Nichita Stanescu)

CULTURAL PERSONALITIES FROM PRAHOVA

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I.L.Caragiale 3 By Georgiana Stefania Petre, Mihaela Movila

Iulia Hasdeu 8 By Georgiana Stefania Petre, Mihaela Movila

Nicolae Iorga 11 By Mihaela Cosmina Daiana Dobre, Georgiana Stefania Petre

Nichita Stanescu 14 By Mihaela Cosmina Diana Dobre, Mihaela Movila

Ion Stratan 16 By Mihaela Movila, Mihaela Cosmina Diana Dobre, Georgiana Stefania Petre

Nicolae Grigorescu 18 By Mihaela Movila, Mihaela Cosmina Diana Dobre, Georgiana Stefania Petre

Cover graphics: Veronica Hutanu Coordinating teacher: Veronica Hutanu Made for the project "Acting 2 Speak English"

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Ion

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Borne: 13 february 1852, Haimanale, Prahova Died: 9 , , Germany His name pronunciation: [iˈon ˈluka kara ˈd͡ʒjale] Occupation: , , essayist, Literary Creation ,translator, Genre: , , , shor story, sketch story, ,, , memoir,fairy Creator of a complex, diverse and original tale work, starting with prose and verses, elegy, politicSubject: , , anecdote, serial, pamphlet and everyday life, morals and manners, sketches, I. L. Caragiale masters drama art like politics, social no other. Plays like A​ Tempestuous Night criticism (1879), ​Cone Leonida faces the reaction​ (1880), D-ale carnavalului​ (1885), A​ Lost Letter​ (1884), ​The Calamity​ (1890) constitute a perfect radiography of the romanian society.

http://muzeedambovitene.ro/arhiva_web/en /casa_caragiale_opera.php

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“I​ only write about our life and for our life, because I don't know another one and I don't care about another one.​ ”

Tragic and fantastic can be found I.L. Caragiale selected the heroes in in his short stories - A Easter Torch, his work from various environments: Sin, At Minjoala's Inn, Devil's horse, family, school, mass-media, justice During The War, , Abu system, high life or politics. Hassan​, while comic can be found in sketches - Mr. Goe, The Visit, Telegrams, Bubico, character and http://muzee- manners - A Lost Letter, A dambovitene.ro/arhiva_web/en/casa Tempestuous Night, Cone Leonida _caragiale_opera.php faces the reaction,​ ​D-ale carnavalului​.

The author of A lost letter is also the creator of the sketch in the and, at the same time, it's unoverfulfilled master. I. L. Caragiale has the merit of achieving the artistic perfection in a series of literary miniatures that show an extremely picturesque world.

The comedy A Lost Letter was played for the first time at the National Theatre in , on November 13, 1884, registering a great public success with its series of 11 consecutive performances, within only three weeks.

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His plays are a perfect blend between tragic and comic, and fantastic. Caragiale joins classic with realism, creating a drama language unique in our literature. His work has a great artistic value. The tragic aspects of human experience are present in short stories: ​A Easter Torch​ (1889), B​ oyer Sin​ (1892), During The War​ (1898) and so on. Caragiale was also a translator. He translated ​Beaten Rome ​ by Al. Parodi, Hatmanul​ by Paul Deroulede, ​Cardasia​ by E. Scribe and so on. I. L. Caragiale created a work with characteristic features that make it unique in Romanian literature's context, a work that contains three different universes: comic, tragic and fantastic.

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​ At Minjoala's Inn

It's a short story written by Ion Luca Female demon frequently illustrates Caragiale. This novel has features that why the idea of an erotic euphoria that make it unique in the context of often hides a complex of frustration, ie national literature but also universal. subconsciously repressed desire It is a work that easily distinguish intimate, imaginative experiences that three different universes: comic, tragic rises to the surface. and fantastic. Supernatural forces intervene to One of the forms of devilish help passionate love, often illegitimate temptation capable of degrading human relations plan, to be carried physical and moral human being and out, falling into sin. The same happens may even direct it as a fatality is blind with FANICA. A woman is seen mainly to death eroticism. If the narration as an object of desire, the pleasure of written by I.L. Caragiale "La Mansion" carnal and sensual unleashing what devil retains its masculine attributes, life spasm approaching death. Thus numerous other authors such as Mihai the woman as the embodiment Eminescu, , Gala demonic personalities manifest Galaction correlates thesensual requirements of a devouring. fulfillment with almost morbid attraction to infernal feminity.

The inn - the symbol of the passage, the inn is a bridge, a place of refuge, a shelter temporarily. The fire - the demonic fire or the destroing fire, highlights the property of the fire of burning and destroing. It's an evil of nature. Often Inferno or the world of the death are seen as spaces of this fire. The labyrinth - prehistoric labyrinths were used to close the evil spirits inside them.

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A Tourch Burning

The novel shows that happened in The themes explored in the novel the village of Podeni, whose innkeeper include psychological state of fear and Jew Leiba Zibal is the servant this induced and foreign threatened his Gheorghe robbery on human condition of society in which the night of the resurrection. Being he lives. Racial discrimination/ attacked in exactly that night, Zibal religion becomes a reason for cessation save himself keeping and burning the of mental character. hand of the thief, inserted through a Leiba Zibal act of willingness to hole cut in the door. Asked the cause of apply his own justice in a world where his reaction, Zibal gives psychic, there is justice. The disparity between responding that his gesture would be its meanings and villagers expressed to "lit a torch of Christ", and that he them by insults and derogatory against became "naked" popular term derived him Leiba, weakening triggers psychic from the goyim, a word in Yiddish character. appoint a man not part of the Hebrew people, or an "infidel, from the point of view of the Jewish" becomes a reason for cessation of mental character.

The author practiced daylight fresh shock experimen over the darkness of passions and extreme facts.

Narrative style adopted is hurried shorthand, but representative of the psychological processes taking place in the mind of the character. The attention to detail in the narrative descriptions suggest naturalistic character, present throughout the work of Caragiale.

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Iulia Hasdeu

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Born: 14 november 1869, Bucharest Died: 29 september 1888, Bucharest Occupation:poet Genre: Subject:

In 1881, at 12 years old,accompanied by her mother, Iulia went to , where Literary Work she entered Sévigné College and passed the Baccalaureate She published during his lifetime, only four poems in exam. L'Etoile roumaine: Les Contes bleus, Larmes d'enfance, Dedain, Le souhaii d'une Villaine (1887). In 1886, Iulia Iulia Hasdeu posthumous work, written in French, enrolled at the was published in three volumes by her father and Faculty of Letters and contains cycles: Bourgeons d'Avril, Fantaisies et Reves Philosophy at (I) Chevalerie, Confidential-ces et Canevas (II), Theatre, Sorbonne University Legendes et contes (III). and attended courses The poems are confessions, meditations and at the École des daydreamings in the spirit of Lamartine, Hugo, Sully Hautes Études Prudhomme,they are opposed to the prosaic life and they (Schools of Higher expresses an aspiration for dignity and moral purity. Studies) in Paris. The plays (L'Years of Trajan, Les Heiduques) exploits historical myths and folklore. La Princesse Papillon tale She started writting a and children's novel Mademoiselle Maussade look doctoral thesis with endowment to describe infant universe. She wrote the the theme centered short story Sandra in and the poetry on Romanian folk . Posthumous volume of poems in French is philosophy: logic, welcomed by Angelo de Gubernatis, Emile Boutroux, , Louis Leger and Al. I. Odobescu. , ethics It has preserved a rich correspondence in French with and theodicy. B. P. Hasdeu, her father collapsed psychologically after irreparable loss of his child, killed by phthisis.

http://www.referatele.com/referate/romana/Iulia- Hasdeu

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Iulia Hasdeu Castle

Do you know...? Iulia Hasdeu Castle is a folly house built in the form of small castle by historian and politician in the city of Câmpina, Romania. Work on it began in 1893, after Hasdeu's daughter, Iulia Hasdeu, died at The Legend Of The Castle the age of 19, an event that dramatically shook and changed Hasdeu's life. He The story post mortem daughter's Hasdeu, Iulia (or claimed that his Julia) and the castle-temple from Campina is one of the most belated daughter mysterious legends true of the Kingdom, deserving to stand provided the plans for in a place Tourist guide by Romania with the ghost of Tepes building the castle or Queen Mary Bran and Ceausescu's People's House ... during sessions of because Julia was true ghost. spiritism. The Killed by pain, Haşdeu quit Giant literary work, building was Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae, Encyclopedic Dictionary completed in 1896. of the Romanian language, they had only to point B, the Iulia Hasdeu word man, and dedicate themselves completely remembering Castle, which was Julia, in the first instance by attempting to replicate this in requiring a lot of vault from Bellu, the resting place turned into a place of reparation, even meditation and discussion with the spirit girl. By seance is revealing a new project to bring him closer when Hasdeu was in to his daughter and withdraw from Campina, where building life, was affected by plans after a mysterious castle Julia: "This castle was built in the First World War the years 1894-189, the plan being given by spirit Julia and in 1924 the Hasdeu Hasdeu through the medium, then designated People's Atheneum of architectural T. Dobrescu, constructiunea N. Angelescu Câmpina "(Hasdeu his notes on a manuscript spiritualist). "B.P.Hasdeu" tried to take it for restoration. The castle was affected again by the Second World War and it kept its state http://metropotam.ro/Metropotam-la-soare/Castelul-Iulia- till 1955, when its Hasdeu-de-la-Campina-simbolism-spiritualitate-si- name was written in spiritism-art2390644586/ the Listing of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iulia_Hasdeu_Castle Historical Monuments. TEENMAGZ

Iulia Hasdeu Castle

What people say about the castle.. Popular folklore of the time (when the locals were already intrigued by the unusual construction and wizarding practices taking The Interior Of The Castle place there) said that the night could be heard playing the Inside, awaits you one of the most well- piano Iulia, established museums in our country: the cheers Hasdeu interior is beautifully preserved, the castle was old; sometimes restored, it's neat, clean, with explanations on they say 'old every corner furniture, and how family story wolf howl. Out Haşdeu is longer and more interesting only a few descriptions museum, receive input and an the window, the audio guide that keeps you in stories in front of unbuttoned each exhibit, lifting your hair on the neck and nightgown with leaving you almost convinced by this Julia red eyes and castle. Left: temple / dungeon that the section cried as bush ... looks like a tall cup (figuratively of two ladders you know, a side) - the Holy Grail, culminating statue of speech by the Jesus, above which there is an opening round wizard ... " that afternoon in the sun, and overwhelmed with light crown statue Center: Hasdeu and his wife, Jill, along with other bust Julia, daughter, painting by unknown, located in darkroom Right: most entrance, doors and windows, side mirrors have the parallel symbolizing inter alia embodiment of body experiences and body or spirit that enters that there is recreated an infinite number of times.

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Nicolae Iorga

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Born: 5 June, 1871,Botosani Died: 27 november, 1940,Strejnic, Prahova Country Occupation: historian, literary critic and documentarian, , poet, encyclopedist, memoirist, minister, Cultural And Political Activity parliamentary, Prime Minister, professor and academician. He is known He co-founded Democratic Party Nationalist Party worldwide as in 1910, Member of Parliament, President of the mediaevalist, Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, minister, and, for a byzantinist, short time prime minister. Wonder-child, polymat Romance, Slavicist, and polyglot with a prolific scientific activity, Iorga art historian and wrote 1003 volumes , 12755 articles and studies philosopher of and 4963 review,all these culminating with History of history. Romania, in 10 volumes. He taught at the University of Bucharest, the and at other academic and educational institutions and he also founded The International Congress of Byzantine Studies and The Institute of South-East European Studies (ISSE). He was a prominent figure in The Pro-Atlantic Alliance during the First World War I, thanks to the support of the case of in Hasburgic Empire and had an important political role in Romania in the . He initiated campaigns to defend the Romanian culture. He sparked controversy due to anti-Semitic rhetoric. He was an adversary of the National Liberal Party and the .

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Iorga

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A Lifetime Just As It Was

The most beautiful of "prose" of Dramatic events (War of remains ''A lifetime just as it was '' (I- Independence) engage in this village III, 1934), especially the first part, faded country, competed by poor devoted to childhood and adolescence, material condition humiliations, antics where the idea of confession is closer and cruelties of age, the emotion first to the transfiguration of art and reading etc. Beyond clashes with the farthest from the shadows polemics school, draw on vocation now history. and ideological contradictions that is Her revelation has in seventh grade, spread over the second half. From reading a book that I submit thrill portraits of a tragic endearing parents "history alive, only to hold the bat" and or the wanderings of poor family from decided to dedicate her; "I then found a house to another, the picture is himself the power to fascinate me for populated with figures of uncles and all that was human in people". aunts bizarre sheltering a childhood of deprivation in the decoration of "rooms shady, scented sulcină "paintings loaded with historical subjects, designed to introduce the shy child into a world that i will be so familiar.

"Nicolae Iorga embodied the power of our people work in the highest degree. His zeal deep to know and share with others his knowledge made him researcher in the various branches of culture ... Creator in writing and in word, fecundity matchless ... In his word translates for everyone cleverness and originality of the Romanian genius ... a figure of legend during his lifetime and that will earn degrees as time passes."(Constantin Radulescu-Motru)

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Nicolae Iorga

Do you know...? N. Iorga the European scholar has drawn comparisons with figures such as Voltaire, Jules Michelet, Leopold von Ranke and Claudio Sánchez- Albornoz. Having achieved fluency in some 12 foreign languages, he was A Monumental Life, Violently an exceptionally prolific author. Interrupted

His activity also Someday gloomy late autumn, November 27, 1940, included the there was remarkable creative culture broke violent and transformation of dramatic, but its name and the instances remained Vălenii de Munte uluindu us today. Political opponents come to end their town into a life found him ardently on altar serving with endless cultural and culture "liturgy written word." Work on a universal academic center. historiography, one of the most complex books of his monumental works. Nicolae Iorga, said Mircea Eliade, by Nicolae Iorga was his life and work is a "true civilization". Subscribe also made a honoris appreciation bowing reverently before us who gave this causa doctor by the great Romanian and history Oxford University. writings reference. Among them, to name a few: History of Stephen the Great, The Story of the Romanian people, villages and monasteries in Romania, Church History Romanian and religious life of the Romanians, Concept Romanian Orthodoxy History of the Romanians in the faces and icons, Byzantium after Byzantium.

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Nichita Stanescu

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Born: 31 March 1933, in Ploiesti,Prahova Died : 13 December 1983, in Bucharest

His editorial debut was the poetry book Sensul iubirii ("The Aim of Love"), which appeared under the Luceafărul selection, Redefining The Limits of in 1960. He also was the recipient Romanian Poetry of numerous awards for his Appreciated since its debut as a poet most verse, the most representative for what was to be called "Generation 60", important being Stanescu is located among the great names of Romanian the Herder Prize poetry of the twentieth century. in 1975 and a With a childhood during the war and teenage years nomination for the during his country's adjustment to a new Communist Nobel Prize in system, for Nichita Stanescu, homeland and language 1980. were intimately connected. That is to say, his words are Other prizes: best understood through knowledge of his country. - The Romanian In 1952 Nichita Stanescu moved to Bucharest to study Union Award linguistics and literature, and lived there the rest of his in 1964, 1969, life. 1972,1975 In 1960 he became editor of Literary Journal and - The Romanian published the first of his fifteen books of poetry, The Academy Mihai Sense of Love. Eminescu Award, in In 1979 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for 1975 Literature. He is a poet who uses words not only as - Golden Wreath words but as objects; although Nichita Stanescu's logic is laureate of the Struga familiar, his images are dark and are drawn from a Poetry Evenings culture largely unknown to the English world. (1982)

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In Praise Of People

This excerpt from the early poem word so often associated in English “In Praise of People” displays with toenails instead evokes flight. Stănescu’s efforts at considering perspectives beyond human From the point of view of stones, consciousness, which he pursues in the sun is a falling stone, many poems. It also offers a hint of his people are a tender pressure . . . worldview. People, like stones, birds They are motion added to motion and air, are one of the universe’s many and light you can see, from the sun. elements. Each is interchangeable and considers the other on its own terms. From the point of view of air, Yet Stănescu still celebrates people for the sun is air full of birds, what sets them apart: the imagination. wing beating on wing. It is what allows him to envision the People are birds never before seen, paradox of “wings ingrown” that retain with wings ingrown their airy functionality, driving his that beat,hover, glide, consciousness to transcend its within an air more pure: thought. limitations. Cotter’s choice of “ingrown” here is remarkable—not only does it chime with “wings,” but it heightens the action of the image: a

The wings - frist of all,the symbol of the flight, of dematerialisation, of the soul or spirit liberation, of the freedom under the burden of land. In any tradition, wings are won at the cost of education initiatives and purifying often long and dangerous. The momentum in flight always refers to a state of soul aspiration superindividual. Wings also shows the faculty of knowledge: one that understands has wings ( "Intelligence is the hot bird").

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Ion Stratan

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Born: 1 Octomber 1955, in Izbiceni, Olt Died: 19 octombrie 2005, in Ploiesti,Prahova Volumes of poems: Out of the Water (1981), Air with Diamonds (1982), Five songs for civilizing heroes (1983), Fire Light A Remarkable Poet Of The (1990), Russian Roulette (1993) etc Word Hierophanies Prizes and awards: - The Foundation Ion Stratan's poetry is born from the spirit of rigor Nichita Stanescu intersection with inclinations ermetism with histrionic Award, in1990 spirit, encouraged the filth in virtuosity. Built on an - The Romanian oxymoron, poet structure persists in duality or plurality Writers Union Award of discourses, but united in a synthesis melancholy. in 1993 Although part of the "core of fire" of the 80's - The Romanian generation, counted himself among the founders and Academy Mihai protagonists "Cenacle from Monday," Ion Stratan is from Eminescu Award, in the beggining a dissident's out of this poetics. 1995 A feature of his poetry as cerebral spirit cultivating cognoscibility, eager to rebuild the great themes and motifs of poetry. The literary critic Dan Cristea judiciously observed that poetry's Ion Stratan own spirit is "the expressive value, timeless, born from the internal logic of words; poetry anti-mimetic, anti-realist who creates her own time supernatural, fantastic and parabolic concluding that we face "a remarkable poet of the word hierophanies ".

http://www.poeziile.com/autori/Ion- Stratan/biografie.php

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The Leaves Send A Sign

The leaves send you a sign - You can leave, you can remain five hundred villages were drowned with their doors and their dog Leaves fall and tell us you can do what you want But do not say that I didn't tell you.

by Ion Stratan

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Nicolae Grigorescu

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Born: 15 May 1838,in Pitaru, Dâmbovița, Romania Died: 21 July 1907; Câmpina, Romania Active Years: 1856 - 1907 Nationality: Romanian Art Movement: Painting School: The Painter Of The Romanian Field: painting Soul

Nicolae Grigorescu was an important Romanian painter, considered one of the founders of modern Romanian painting, alongside and Ștefan Luchian. Having studied at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he had contact with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, after which he left Paris to join the Barbizon school, where he adopted the „en plein art” way of painting. Several of his works were featured, among others, at the Universal Exhibitions in Paris. For most of his last decades, Grigorescu spend time either painting in Paris or, especially after 1890, in Câmpina, in Prahova country, where he started his famous series of pastorales. He was named honorary member of the in 1899.

https://www.wikiart.org/en/nicolae-grigorescu

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The Oxcart was made in 1897, when Grigorescu was already in full artistic maturity, are included in the exhibition of the Memorial Museum "Nicolae Grigorescu" in Campina. It's a chromatic game on the retina of the spectator. The painting was conceived from the start for what should be a spectator to look at some distance: alternating strokes size, color presses where is increasing materiality suggests a specific landscape rural world of our grandparents. Peasant Woman From Muscel is a study of physiognomy and expression. Warm ocher background that figure is cut creates an atmosphere of calm privacy, fully consistent with the mood of the model portrayed. Undoubtedly, the portrait done in Muscel lies among studies looking Grigorescu made a typology of female beauty physiognomy specific Carpathian .

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