UN TOPOS CULTURAL EUROPEAN: CAFENEAUA LITERARA
A EUROPEAN CULTURAL TOPOS: THE LITERARY CAFE

Summary/Abstract: George Steiner considers a café as an emblematic institution for Europe. A cultural variant of this is the literary café, which marked the life of some big cities: Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, Venice etc. A Romanian version of it was "Spieluhr" Cafe in Timişoara (1939-1945), whose atmosphere was maintained by writers, artists, actors, journalists, musicians, who gathered around Romul Ladea. This cafe contributed to the vitalization of the literary and artistic life of the interwar Banat region.

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