Paris, oraul cu amintiri: Babel reloaded. Profesorul George Banu - un fel de jurnal parizian în halucinant ritm contemporan -
Paris, the Memory City: Babel Reloaded. The Professor George Banu – A Kind of Paris Diary in the Hallucinating Contemporary Rhythm -

Summary/Abstract: Paris: it has enough assets to convince you, to attract you, to take you out from your ivory tower, to confound you in a highly positive or negative manner, to trouble you, to turn you into a bundle of questions to which you should then seek the answer, with a cocktail of sensations. Each person is related to Paris according to the experiences that blended, fed and shaped oneself. In this very Paris, contemporary, spectator on several occasions and several months I am trying, as always, to re-define myself: in the middle of the city, in its air, in its noises, in the lapping of the Seine which has fascinated generations of dreamers. And as always I feel guilty that my enthusiasm is not rooted but in the man-made wonders scattered here, on its streets, parks, into the museums and not in its people, not today, not in its present-day flesh, not in the core of today but in the measure in which today is the tomb of a glorious yesterday and much else. It is the discrepancy between the theatre of the city and the theatre of the living, of people. Between the show of the buildings and the human decadence. Between the old perfume of the museums and the scents of the 21st century streets. A world, a mosaic, a Babel with which one tries to re-compose oneself into an absolutely crazy daily rhythm, not before disintegrating first.

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