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Artur Silvestri

Prof. Silvestri (work and activity)
A writer, historian of civilizations, cultural promoter, publisher, founder of real estate consulting in Romania, the founder of cultural and civic organizations, business person encyclopedic.

Born in 1953, a family Aromanians traders, arrived in the Balkans, (maternal) and boyars of Oltenia, the family of the famous Iancu Jianu; great grandchild son of Metropolitan Tit Simedrea last Metropolitan and Chernovtsy Bucovina, ousted in 1944 by the Russian occupation.

Studies in Philology in Bucharest (1972-1976), specializing in archeology (Italy) and History of Culture (Sorbonne, 1979), Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Madras (India - 1992), dr. Honoris Causa from the Institute of Medieval Studies - Barcelona (Spain). As a representative of the literary movement of the journal Luceafarul ", he launched the project of the" new literary geography "stimulating the creation local and regional cultural decentralization, and the effects of this project were particularly strong and durable.

Author of some thirty books, publications and summaries of various areas, nearly two hundred studies of literary history and history of civilization, a prominent journalist for decades, implemented in more than 2,500 titles.

Since 1992, during his "lack of public, Artur Silvestri investment and the creation of companies to economic activity, especially in real estate. He awards the most outstanding professional in the field. It is now recognized as the principal author of books about real estate in Romania. It was even said that "if the housing market had not existed, it should have been set up according to these books."

He created the only collection of specialized editorial Romania - "The Real Estate Library. It organizes and coordinates research groups on investment in low-cost housing during the inter-war period, and on "Historic Center of Bucharest", writing independent reports, financed by its own means. He is currently working on "Project Kisseleff" proposed major urban development, to establish a "New Bucharest", large-scale project, for which it has mobilized experts around the world.

Artur Silvestri leads a modest life, studious and dedicated to cultural and social. He hates the worldly, loves animals and simplicity. He does not travel. His last vacation in 1985, he spent writing a book. He is married to Mariana Brãescu, nicknamed "Mrs. CASA LUX" after the famous magazine she heads.

In addition to the eight books currently in press in Romania, published in Paris a new volume of Philosophy of Culture ( "The challenge stateless"), a synthesis, Belgium ( "The Archetype of Scythians Moines) on literature Romania and South America, a book of prose fantastic.

It is, since July 2004, Doctor Honoris Causa ès humanistic and social sciences applied to the International Francophone University of Brussels and visiting professor in property management, expertise and related assets of the University for the European Union.

Recently, he was awarded the Cross of Saint Anthony of the Desert, great distinction of Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (Egypt) and was elected "Accademico" Center-Culturale Copto ortodosso - Venezia (2004).

The work of Artur Silvestri is a fascinating and meticulous construction that has meaning and purpose clear. His works have big ideas river life in the fantasy world of the archetype Romanian.

Concerned with ideas of scale, the writer is, in my opinion, a continuation of the intellectual substance of Romanian encyclopedist, devoured by a passion to build a work, responsible in every gesture and every fiber of his being. That is, the man of culture who feels responsible for everything that happens. It is possible that this type of vocation sometimes eludes us, in any case could be easily understood by those around them.

We are all now familiar with a "parceled" of the reality around us and in which we live, there is a difficulty in approaching the great minds. His work is in the line created by the historian Nicolae Iorga, the scholar Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu after by Vasile Parvan and nowadays, Zoe Dumitrescu Busulenga or Edgar Papu.

It is the young man Artur Silvestri who felt the calling of the work scope. Trained in a family that had strong roots in the national sentiment, he had a great grandfather almost legendary: the last Metropolitan of Bucovina between the two wars, Tit Simedrea, large church defendant imprisoned by the Communists.

Grand defendant himself, national values, archetypal and current that supports the importance of ancient periods in the Romanian culture and put the emphasis on Dacian roots of Romanian society, Artur Silvestri addressed fields different prose writer, critic and literary historian, he has had lengthy experience in the investigation of the religious phenomenon, the first writers of Orthodox Christian monasteries, the stories of churches or the return of manuscripts unknown.

His side analysis of real estate (note that the concerns of this kind have hardly dimmed his renowned historian prose or the general public!), Starts to become a little in the line of the writer classical Romanian Alexandru Odobescu 1834-1895 with its "Pseudokineghetikos" a hobby.

Its comparative analysis on real estate, homes, land is more of a sociological study of cultural anthropology and which for the first time in a comparative analysis of the different stages of the recent history of Romania between the wars the period of Stalinist Bolshevik occupation, the beginning of socialism, the Communist dictatorship, revolution, the transition to capitalism and the dates shown by the recent emergence of "new rich" and a clear loss of taste and cultural quality.

I admit that I have always felt a strong solidarity with his favorite themes, which have claimed the territory of the culture and its work to bring to light their manuscripts Pius Servien, the unknown writer Martin Bracara or the Byzantine Ioancu. It is a work of literary archeology that has made elsewhere in the pages of a literary magazine "Luceafarul" (between 1982-1989), he also tried out in a format as the Internet name "Luceafarul romanesc" creates a forum for writers of all Romanians.

I wrote little time to test on a book he published on the work of Zaharia Stancu, writer questioned for some time. It takes courage to approach certain issues in Romania and Artur Silvestri he had. Even in the texts of literary criticism, we see the writing of prose, his eyes as an artist and his approach sociologist.

"On the Danube were merchants who create small businesses, in the great plains of horses galloping invaders flood, dust coming from Asia rose, and in any place, Turkish, all the languages of the East mixed, and while the mixture of Greek, Armenians, Celtic, Bulgaria, Slavs, Serbs and Turks was rather difficult to isolate a trait Aboriginal.

Even in Toponymy we still have the traces of its new arrivals because the names of rivers as "Teleorman", "Calmatui" Urlui "seem relics of an Asian language, Celtic."

How wide in the description, what verb ample, enveloping atmosphere created by what the literary critic who also is still the place to the writer, the prose able to describe the tables of a certain magnitude. For what purpose?

Simply to have access to this anthropological perspective to the realities of life on the banks of the Danube in deciphering the secrets of history!
Every table in this book is impressive, because it refers to the sources and archetypes, created to describe the world of writing Zaharia Stancu that Artur Silvestri summarized as follows:

"This is modern primitive overview by his radicalism and irreplaceable as the sculpture of Constantin Brancusi. In literature the Romanian poet must be regarded as an expression of an ancient agrarian poetry, before the Sumerian civilization, which derives its saps of writing Tartaria. "

Designed in 1987 the book on Zaharia Stancu ( "The Revolt of substance not consumed") is proof of the unity of the work critical of Artur Silvestri. It is in itself a very thoughtful construction, driven by big ideas and who lives in the fantasy world of the archetype Romanian.

As a literary critic at the same time, the writer himself, who says the best way to make the construction of its prose.

It is indeed a complex personality, which does not need a liner created as is the case of Fernando Pessoa. This makes the task of war that is the critical analysis of his writing but increases the intellectual delight readers!

For example, in his volume of prose "Perpetuum Mobile. Improvised pieces for cello and oboe "he mentions the name of Marguerite Duras in creating a world inspired by the writing of the French writer. These are pages that we prevail, breathing artistic emotion, the value of feelings, dreams come true, the beauty of art and writing, trust in human nature, in love and purity of feelings.

In the preface to his book, the author himself notes, "What I hoped to learn by revelation, miracle or a quick way, I quickly realized that this is going to be hidden. I have a sense of impenetrable worlds reflected in the time and the relentless repetition or eternal us, is for a small second, indefinitely. "

Now when all the friends and all those who have read these works, all those he has helped his grades in cultural projects in Romania and elsewhere, regrets his premature demise, have books Artur Silvestri (1953-2008) we have left to learn more on the substance and the density of his work.
 

 Text:    Cleopatra Lorintiu

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