Dimitriu - When we are the other
Using strategies of domestication,
which incorporate a peripheral/Irish culture perspective, again and again Murphy
associates the Romanian landscapes and cultural identity to the Irish ones:
I didn't suspect such a marked temperamental affinity between Irish and Rumanians.
Also many details Á positive and negative, trivial and important Á remind me of Ireland
forty years ago. The way women dress [. . .]; children's acceptance of parental discipline;
the eager unsophistication of adolescents . . . And, most significantly, the brand-mark of