Dimitriu - When we are the other
Through an ethical, instructive reading and a `fractal' travel
across their country Á and inside themselves Á Romanian readers would be invited to
reconsider their cultural identity in view of intercultural dialogue.
This highly formative exercise would first entail a relativization of the Western
perspective from which the books were written. After all, if the trip had been
undertaken by an Eastern/Oriental traveller, the cultural filtering and translation of
Romania would have been considerably different. Such an approach would help the