Ideas, diary excerpts, questions, poems, chronicles, and articles. That's how Laura Sandu's book could be briefly described. But going further, regardless of the form in which they were put, the words take shape, playing with preconceptions, fears, and hopes.
Here
it is, a must-read. And an excerpt.
"Literature
belongs to everyone, but what do we want it to be, first and foremost, when we
teach it, translate it, sell it, popularize it, write it, and interpret it?
Do
we want it to be heritage, a national legacy with infinite potential,
which must be 'saved' from oblivion and degradation? Or do we want it to be,
above all, a contemporary body of expressive structures, with the extraordinary
ability to make us understand—by appealing to our empathy and other affective
and cognitive abilities—the present, history, and the possibilities of the
future?"
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