The Observer, in short

Lead article Doina Ioanid comments on faults in Romania’s educational system. Politics Bedros Horasangian discusses the consequences of Mircea Geoana’s assertion that the governmental cabinet will have to be changed. Geoana is President of the Social Democratic Party. Ciprian Ciucu comments on the insubstantiality of the Social Democratic Party’s motion to change the cabinet. Latest The Observer publishes an open letter addressed to the Minister of Education, Research and Youth by the Group for Reform in the University at the Western University in Timisoara. Marcel Tolcea, Iancu Lucica, Vasile Docea, Viorel Marineasa and Daniel Vighi ask for the elimination of the false Ph.D. coordinators at the Western University. The group targets coordinators elevated during the Communist regime. Event Valerian Sava interviews Alex. Leo Serban, member of the staff at the 4th International Independent Film Festival recently held in Sfantu Gheorghe. Iulia Blaga, Cristina Corciovescu, Mihai Chirilov, Andrei Cretulescu, Codruta Cretulescu, Mihai Fulger, Magda Mihailescu and Angelo Mitchievici answer Valerian Sava’s questions on this year’s festival. Book reviews Paul Cernat comments on Ioan Lacusta’s Luminare (Coborirea in text) [Illumination (Descending into the Text), Iasi: Polirom, 2007], an (auto)biographical novel that engages in textualism. Bogdan Alexandru-Stanescu analyzes Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo (Bucharest: […]