Radu Cosasu, excluded from the Writers’ Union

Leading article The subject of this week’s leading article signed by Carmen Muşat is Mircea Mihăieş’s public request that Radu Cosaşu be excluded from the Writers’ Union on account of some so/called aggressive, procommunist articles written in the 50’s, which incriminate, in the accuser’s view, Radu Cosaşu’s works. Carmen Muşat strongly dismisses Mircea Mihăieş’s gesture as a sign of ‘dictatorial mentality’, which enabled the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century to break all human rights. With a witty phrase, Carmen Muşat sees Mircea Mihăieş as a ‘Javert for our anxiety’. Politics Ciprian Ciucu and Sabina Fati write on the Conservative Party’s withdrawal from the government, the former insisting on the Party’s fickleness versatility and on its undemocratic character, while the latter comments upon the consequences of the withdrawal, the most important of all being the possible failure of the second prime-minister after Adrian Năstase, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu. Latest cultural events Radu Portocală, director of The Romanian Cultural Institute in Paris (ICR), announced his resignation. The Cultural Observer reproduces Radu Portocală’s resignation letter, next to Horia Roman Patapievici’s and Theodor Baconski’s declarations. In memoriam Lucian Raicu, one ‘of the leading critics of his generation’ [the generation of the 60’s], as Eugène Ionesco […]