"Marele violonist Gabriel Croitoru cântă la Cluj cu celebra vioară Guarneri a lui George Enescu pentru a sprijini copiii și tinerii cu insuficiență renală cronică. (...) În data de 1 Martie 2015, începând cu ora 18,30, în Sala Auditorium Maximum a Casei Universitarilor de pe strada Kogălniceanu din Cluj-Napoca va avea loc un concert extraordinar susținut de marele violinist Gabriel Croitoru. Alături de unul dintre cei mai virtuoși artiști ai coardelor din lume, cei mai buni instrumentiști pe care i-a dat școala clujeană de muzică în ultimii 10 ani conduși de tânărul și talentatul dirijor Adelin Cătinean vor interpreta 'Anotimpurile' de Antonio Vivaldi și Astor Piazzolla. Acest regal muzical are ca scop strângerea de fonduri pentru 100 de copii și tineri cu insuficiență renală cronică tratată prin hemodializă, dializă peritoneală și transplant renal îngrijiți de Asociația pentru Solidaritate și Empatie 'Claudia Safta', fundație de caritate care este și organizatorul...
MATT HAIG - "Midnight Library" " Nora Seed feels useless. Her cat is dead, her brother doesn’t seem to be interested in her, and she has been fired: nobody needs her. Late one evening, she tries to kill herself. But instead of death, what Nora finds is a library in which each volume represents a version of her life where she made different choices. The possibilities are numberless. There is a Nora who became a rock star, another who has won Olympic medals, another living aboard an Arctic research vessel; some versions are mothers, wives, orphans; famous and influential, or not. All she has to do to step into that life is open the book. If she finds a good life, she can stay; the difficulty lies in deciding “whether a life could really be judged from just a few minutes after midnight on a Tuesday”. The foundation of the idea is the many worlds theory, in which a new universe blossoms from every choice and decision. It’s a beautiful concept, but Matt Haig doesn’t explai...
Prema Joshi is a “prematurely aged” instructor of English literature at a girls’ college, “a tired woman going home from work with nothing to look forward to, nothing to smile about,” who sees a way out of her malaise when she unexpectedly gets a chance to translate into English a set of short stories written in one of India’s many regional languages. The focus here is the hierarchy that separates writer and translator, with the latter clearly in an inferior position and frustrated by it, and what happens when a translator violates that order. But Ms. Desai also uses the novella for satiric purposes, perhaps to exact vengeance on some literary nationalists in India; at one point Prema and her publisher attend a conference where they are hectored by “a pudgy man in a sweat-stained suit,” who imperiously demands to know, “What made you decide to translate these stories into a colonial language that was responsible for destroying the original language?” ... "Translator Transla...
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