Have you guys read any Romanian literature? Only asking those

>>9160947
Romania has literature?

American here. I don't think I've read any literature.

What do you recommend?

>>9160947
Sorry op, but Romania is irrelevant.

>>9160947
I think Cioran is the best you can get m8, the other literary works are more for Romanians and foreigners wouldn't really get into it, for example Caragiale.

t. Romanian

>>9160955
Why sorry? I didn't say it's relevant. I was just curious.

>>9160966
No one at /lit/ is such a scholar as to have even heard of Romanian literature I'm afraid. I'm from a country that's as irrelevant as Romania, which is a shame, because it has great literature, which I'm sure Romania does as well.

>>9160979
What country?

What Romanian should I read? I need something dark - like my mind!

>>9160947
Romania is a fake country, only filthy Italian gypsies squatting in rightful Magyar soil.

Yes, I've read an anthology of Romanian prose. Authors I liked: Ion Creanga, Bratescu-Voinesti, Stancu, Sadoveanu and Calinescu. The stories were pretty okay but I can't really see a motive for a foreign person to delve more deeply into your culture to be honest. Nothing special to offer, I guess.

>>9160964
Wait, I forgot Eliade, he's pretty relevant as well.

>>9160988

>>9160991
no, the gypsies come from India and they cheap clothes with "italy" on them because they buy them from cheap clothing stores.

>>9160997
E.M. Cioran, his first book.
I don't know if it's translated in your language: Craii de Curtea Veche (The Old Court Libertines?) By Mateiu Caragiale.
Some stuff by Mircea Eliade is awesome and dark.

No,I did not
I couldn't give less of a shit about that gypsy outhouse

>>9160992
Could you post the name of that anthology?

>>9161019
Also, a poet called George Bacovia is really gloomy and depressive, but I don't know if you can find decent translations.

>>9161029

>>9161025
lmfao

>>9161029
Sorry, but the book is in Portuguese, my mother language. Its name is "Antologia do Conto Romeno" nonetheless.

>>9160987
Pakistan. More irrelevant than Romania I guess.

>>9161070
op here, could you recomend some of your Pakistani favourites?

>>9161087
Haven't read much prose, and I don't think we have much good prose in Urdu desu. It doesn't get translated too I think.

Poetry is much more important in Urdu literature, but of course it's hard to translate. A lot of emphasis is on love in Urdu poetry - many seem to be inspired by the romanticists.

My personal favorite is Iqbal, a philosophical poet, probably the only true genius. Hard to understand even if you are a native speaker. Here's a sample.

beyond the stars are even more worlds
there are still even more tests of passion

these expanses are not devoid of life
here there are hundreds of other caravans too

don't be contented with the world of color and scent
there are other gardens, other nests, too

if one nest was lost, what's the [cause of] grief?
there are other places for sighing and lamenting

you are a falcon, flight is your task
before you there are other skies as well

don't become entangled, and remain, in this day-and-night
for you have other times-and-places too

the days are gone when I was alone in the gathering
here, now, I have other secret-sharers too

>>9160949
Not any that is any better than its foreign counterparts

>>9160947
Ive read a decent amount of Ionesco but im not sure if he actually counts or not.

>>9161293
This. French-Romanians don't count that much, even though there's quite a few of them.

>>9161070
At least you guys have nukes.

>>9160947
American here, I've read a good deal of Cioran. He's too indulgent but says a lot of things that need to be said, I suppose.

>>9160947
In my years on /lit/ I have noticed that pretty much everyone seems to have heard of Cioran, Ionesco and Eliade. Anons with interests that are a bit more niche might have heard of Tristan Tzara, Urmuz, Max Blecher, Gherasim Luca, perhaps Dumitru Țepeneag, Gellu Naum or Mircea Cărtărescu. You'll notice that most of the above share having left Romania for France and wrote some of their works in French (USA and English in the case of Eliade). They all have multiple works translated in English, too. It's very rare (I think this is the second time) to see someone mention Caragiale, Sadoveanu, Creangă or Eminescu--those who we, Romanians are being taught in school are our very best--and it's always by non-Anglos, like this guy >>9160992. Come to think of it, I don't remember any mention of Eminescu, ever. This guy was semi-deified when I was a school lad; turns out he is pretty much irrelevant outside our borders.

>>9161816
I only speak english but are any of those writers besides Cioran, Eliade and Lonesco available? I read Mihail Sebastian already.

>>9161816
Yes, I noticed that too. I think everyone in Romania knows about Eminescu and Creanga. I'm not a scholar but I believe what Cioran, Eliade etc. wrote in other languages is NOT considered Romanian literature.

Didn't know gypsies and vampire feed could read and write.

>>9160947
I enjoy Sasa Pana's poems translated by Google.

>>9160949
Yes
>>9160991
No
>>9161025
Yes, gypsies are a pain in the ass.
>>9163971
I think Romanians didn't knew that either.

>>9164044
Actually if I think about it, I think it's pretty well know that gypsies are illiterate.

>>9161888
I have some Cărtărescu, Blecher, Naum and Urmuz ebooks in English, but that's only because of my interest in surrealist, dadaist and magical realist literature. This, incidentally, seems to be the only claim for relevance Romanian lit seems to be able to make--and no, I don't think literature not originally written in Romanian is Romanian literature >>9163969. If anyone is interested I can post the above in this thread. For all I know there might be plenty more in English, so go look for your favourite authors in the usual places.

>>9160992
>>9161029
Maybe not the same one, but I found this collection on Project Gutenberg. It's all right, from what I remember:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38991

>>9164138
I would love if you did. Please do.
>>9164578
Thanks as well.

As your southern neighbour I only have read Mirca Eliade fiction and some short stories by his father. I find romanians to have invented magical realism before the spics.Garden of Adonis is a mindfuck.

>>9160947
Bacovia is bae boss

Avoid. All major prose is part of the horrendous Westernization movement started in the 19th century. It's parroted tripe at best.

>>9165608
Wut?

One of the better threads right now lads.

>>9160988
chinaman romanian-aficionado from the other thread here. Read Bacovia. He's very dark but awesome, and also important in the canon. He's a poet though so you need to enjoy poetry in the first place. I don't like poetry but I can respect his writing.

>>9161019
>Craii de Curtea Veche
Thanks, it looks promising. Also "Baltagul" sounds pretty good. It delves into romanian folk-lives and has a darker story.

>>9164813
Ok, here's what I got--Blecher, Urmuz, Luca, Țepeneag, Cărtărescu in English:
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>>9165878
Yes, George Bacovia is good.

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>>9160947
I've read something from precisely the writers this one >>9161816 mentions and have indeed barely heard about the last four, spot on

>>9165878
I really recommend Craii de Curtea Veche (The Old Court Libertines). It's really unique in our culture and beautifully written.

I've only read some Cioran and Ionesco.

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Does Mircea Eliade count?

>>9166038
Depends on what you have read. His early writings are in Romanian, then he switched to French and English.

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>>9165983

Theres a contemporany author named Alexandru Ecovoiu and has a great book 'Saludos'. Check it out.

>>9166096
Go to bed, Alexandru Ecovoiu.

>>9160950
>American
>I don't think I've read any literature.
>I don't think
Checks out