The five stories are connected to the novel Nas de bulgar through characters, details and themes. They are stories about the contemporary world and the archaic one, about flight, memory, hypocrisy, femininity and Balkan roots, about love and identity.
Another city, another theme. A narrative performance based on spontaneous storytelling. Each story has a different interlocutor, while the audience enters the story, participates, asks questions and changes the rhythm of the encounter.
We tell the story together.
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27 April — Ploiești
“Virgil Madgearu” National College / County Library / “Paul Constantinescu” Philharmonic
Theme: Love
A story told in Ploiești
Kiraika, the great bird of the Balkans, falls in love with a Getan named Dudis, a character from Nas de bulgar. She comes periodically to the fortress on the Danube, and its inhabitants believe her to be a god. Driven by love, she abducts Dudis and carries him south of the Danube. Dudis is convinced that the bird-god has called him to glory, especially since he lands in the middle of an altercation. Seized by euphoria and trusting in the help of the giant bird, he takes part in the plundering of fortresses and is killed, surviving only as a name on an inscription recorded by Vasile Pârvan. Kiraika falls into despair and decides to die. But just as she is about to throw herself into the Danube, she hears a song, something unearthly, a melody that heals her. And the singer is still alive today, in Ploiești. Who knows him?
28 April — Târgoviște
Teachers’ Circle
Theme: History and Personal Identity
29 April — Călărași
“Al. Odobescu” County Library
Theme: Feminine Identity
5 May — Bucharest, 1 p.m.
School No. 45
Theme: By Request
7 May — Bacău, 12 p.m.
“Ferdinand I” National College
Theme: Times
Târgu Ocna, 4 p.m.
Theme: Who Am I?
8 May — Iași, 6 p.m.
Library of the Romanian Academy
Theme: First Reading of the Novel / Reading Club
9 May — Iași, 1 p.m.
Librex, Palas Mall, Vivaldi
Theme: About Fugitives
12 May — Drobeta-Turnu Severin, 1 p.m.
Palace of Culture
Theme: Stories from the Danube
13 May — Târgu Jiu, 7 p.m.
“Elvira Godeanu” Theatre
Theme: Stories with Big Noses
14 May — Timișoara, 1 p.m.
University
Theme: Identity
15 May — Oradea
Theme: Vegetal
18 May — Craiova
Theme: Heroes of the South
19 May — Constanța
Theme:
20 May — Pitești
Theme:
Brăila
Theme:
Galați
Theme: Stories with Zuli
Cluj
Theme: Stories with Hats
Bucharest — Bookfest
Launch of the novel Nas de bulgar
Theme:
Among all the events that mingle tribes and languages, there are at least two certainties that history should take into account: the endurance of a name that held together the Balkan scaffolding — the name of the Bulgars — and the Romanian language. The love story in the novel rests on these two ideas.
Doina Ruști
“An enveloping, cinematic, dense saga.”
Roxana Dumitrache
“A complete spectacle of realism and fantasy.”
Dan C. Mihăilescu
“To part from Dudis was like death. Do not be afraid, he told her, I will come after you. Go through the forests, and if not, return to the Danube and plant the flag in the gravel, and I will know.
Detustaina crossed the Danube and plunged into the forests. She walked for many days, killing animals with fury and lighting great fires. A snake had grown inside her chest, and she expected to die among the trees, torn apart by wolves. In a wide clearing, where the winter bird was singing, a man was waiting for her. He was slender, and his silhouette seemed frayed at the edges. He smiled, and Detustaina found herself saying: so, you are Dudis’s god. And he confirmed it with a movement of his chin. The tails of his coat swayed in the autumn wind, and over his frail body clung a thin, short shirt, ending above the navel. The sky had cleared; among the crowns of the trees, small beings were descending, millions of beings who, until then, had been waiting for Detustaina, so that she might lay the foundations of another world.”
Doina Ruști — Nas de bulgar
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