County Library “Alexandru and Aristia Aman” hosts on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, starting at 14:00, in the “Acad. Dinu C. Giurescu” hall, the launch of volume VII of the Macedonian Notebooks, recently published by Eikon Publishing in Bucharest.
The event invites Antonie Solomon, vice‑president of the Dolj County Council, Radu Vințeanu, director of the County Library “Alexandru and Aristia Aman”, Florin Ridiche, director of the Oltenia Museum, Mircea Canțăr, editor‑in‑chief of the newspaper “Cuvântul libertății”, Laurențiu Ion, Department of the “Traian Demetrescu” Cultural House of the Colibri Theatre, popular troubadour Ion Crețeanu, master cellist Mircea Suchici, writers, critics and literary historians from Craiova, co‑authors of the volume: Ilona Duță, Rodica‑Nicoleta Costanda, Ana Ocoleanu, Gabriela Păsărin, Maria‑Cristina Gelep, Tudor Nedelcea, Nicolae Marinescu, Picu Ocoleanu, Mihai Firică, Iulian M. Nedelcu, Geo Constantinescu, Alin Naidin and Ion Munteanu.
The volume includes speeches (research, studies, essays, chronicles, interviews) presented by the guests of the seventh edition of the International Festival “Alexandru Macedonski”, within the Symposium “Alexandru Macedonski, poet of the parade of paradigms (II)”, an event that took place in Craiova from May 22 – 24, 2025, and was organized primarily by the Dolj County Council and the County Library “Alexandru and Aristia Aman”, in partnership with the Museum of the Romanian Book and Exile, the Museum of Art, the National Center “Constantin Brâncuși”, the Department of the “Traian Demetrescu” Cultural House of the Colibri Theatre, the National Theatre “Marin Sorescu” and the Cultural Association “Alexandru Macedonski”.
“Why do we celebrate in Craiova, year after year, since 2019, Alexandru Macedonski, poet of Nights and Rondels, in an event with significant national and international participation? Of course, for several reasons. First, because he is a great, modern and versatile writer, whose maternal family roots lie in the fertile soil of the Amaradia Valley, in miraculous places where he also spent his childhood. An authentic and visionary poet, he had the intuition and courage to promote the renewal of Romanian literature, opposing tradition, clichés and the complacency of reception.
Macedonski is also the precursor of the modern novel and avant‑garde currents in our country, being the first symbolist poet in Romanian literature. He thus becomes the first Romanian author who proposed synchronising Romanian literature with the European, especially French, literature, many years before the initiative of Eugen Lovinescu and Camil Petrescu.
He wrote fantastic prose before the genre was established… Macedonski wrote a film script at the very beginning of the cinematic era: How to Become Rich and Influential (1911, in French, while he was in Paris)…
For more information about the literary merits of this great Oltenian writer, discover volume VII of the Macedonian Notebooks, a substantial book with no fewer than 50 studies and essays written by authors from across the country and abroad.”
Ion Munteanu, volume coordinator.