Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggestion that the 1976 Nobel prizewinner was intimidated by his critics is dispelled in The Dean's December, a work that opens a second front in Bellow's war on cultural and intellectual nihilism. The scenes are set almost exclusively in Chicago and Bucharest, a disparity underscored by the line, "There was nothing too rum to be true." In fact, the book is largely based on a trip that the novelist and his wife made to Rumania a few years ago to visit her dying mother...
...literary result is Albert Corde, the latest and best of Bellow's old cogitators. Corde, a Chicago college dean, spends a great deal of time in an underheated Bucharest apartment waiting for his mother-in-law to die in a state hospital and mulling over the retreat of "personal humanity" before "the worldwide process of consolidation." The woman was an eminent psychiatrist and former Minister of Health whose humanism was incompatible with the Communist regime. Corde's wife Minna is an astrophysicist who defected to the U.S. and must now beg a vindictive bureaucracy for permission...
Eliade was born in Bucharest, when Rumania still turned its eyes West for cultural inspiration. One early encounter, when he was "four or five," was a portent of things to come. He saw a young girl who had "the largest eyes I have ever seen [and] black curls that fell to her shoulders." He knew even then, he claims, that "something extraordinary and decisive had occurred...
...Back in Bucharest, Eliade turned his Indian romance into an indelicately autobiographical novel, Maitreyi, which became a bestseller. Then he promptly dashed off, over the next two years, an entire trilogy of novels to follow it. He somehow managed to find time to keep two mistresses, one an emotional actress, the other the wounded victim of an earlier love affair, a young woman named Nina...
...theater movement. In recent years that image has been tarnished, but the choice of Liviu Ciulei (pronounced Leave-you Chew-lay) promises to burnish it again. A Rumanian who speaks five languages, Ciulei, 58, was trained as an architect and went on to scenic design, acting and directing in Bucharest. He did his first work in the U.S. at the Washington, D.C., Arena Stage in 1974. He is a bold innovator with a powerful sense of the visual, much like Britain's Peter Brook. To the Guthrie's great good fortune, he is off to a spectacular start...