In memoriam: George Craciun died of cancer

Lead article The new Observer series celebrates its 100th issue this week. Preceded by a comment on the last issue of Lettre Internationale, which marked the magazine’s 15th anniversary, Ovidiu Simonca’s editorial discusses the basic conditions needed by a cultural review. In memoriam George Craciun died of cancer on January 30th 2007. A novelist and literary theorist, Craciun was a leader of the literary generation of the ‘80’s. The Cultural Observer republishes a text of his from the October 19th-25th issue, “Cum se joaca ultima carte?