A CITY MADE OF BOOKS, A WORLD OF MEMORIES
A CITY MADE OF BOOKS, A WORLD OF MEMORIES

Summary/Abstract: From Evlia Celebi to Cora Irineu, from Ion Slavici and Milos Crnjanski to contemporary prose, the region of Banat is described as a multiethnic place, where different histories, religions, confessions mingle, and Timisoara is a city where buildings, churches, synagogues rewrite the city's history. Whether we talk about travel notes, memories or fiction, various authors have presented Banat as a place where ethnic groups live together, trying and most of the time succeeding in preserving their own traditions, faith, culture. Over the real cities, through which we walk, the images of cities formed by words overlap. Each of us feels differently the asphalt of a street, the shadow of a tree, the history of a house. In this essay, we will reveal only at piece of this history, because it continues, both the real and the fictionalized histories are still here and are given back to different readers, in the literature written today.

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