JOURNEY BY ELEVATOR
The book, comprising letters from Romania addressed to the authors' husband and respective father, Andi Ștefănescu, who had left for Germany, where he worked for Radio Free Europe, is considered by historian Matei Cazacu an "important and necessary book, without equivalent in Romanian literature".
Vremea Publishing House, 2017.
CERBERUS AND DEANIRA
The play in 3 acts tells the story of Hercules' last task, his journey to Hell, accompanied by Hermes, to bring to Euristheus (his enemy, in whose service he has ended up), Cerberus, this terrifying monster, guardian of the gates of Hell. After new trials and tribulations, Hercules ends up becoming a god, like the gods of Olympus.
Brumar Publishing House, 2018.
THE INNER EXILE
The book includes a long interview with Ariana Negropontes about the life and work of writer, photographer and journalist Dan Er. Grigorescu-Negropontes, son of General Eremia Grigorescu and Elena Negropontes, descendant of a family of bankers. The volume also includes several illustrations with photographs from the Negropontes family archive.
Vremea Publishing House, 2016.
THE DEPARTURE OF THE SNAKE
A volume of poems, in which, according to the poet Sorin Anca, the author "constantly oscillating between reality and dream brings the testimony of a spectral world, in which the chord of the lyre or lyric vibrates towards the incandescence of maximum plenitude".
Galatea Publishing House, Germany, 2005.
THE TERROR OF ILLUSION
Conversations between the author and Romanian personality Augustin Buzura in December 1989, when he was visiting Munich, at a turning point, extremely important for the destiny of Romania. Oscillating between hope and disbelief, Augustin Buzura asks himself serious questions to which he has no answers, but awaits answers to be provided by the events looming on the horizon.
Polirom, 2004.
THE GATE OF KISSES
A selection of poems from the previous volumes, as well as new poems, In an inspiring preface, literary critic Tudorel Urian considers that "two elements give originality to Crisula Ștefănescu's poetry: the calophilia of the style and a certain anguish generated by the flow of time, an eternal source of uncertainty". Translated into English by author and Monella Kaplan, edited by Inta Moruss-Wiest and Richard Wiest.
Institutul Cultural Roman, Bucharest 2004.
BETWEEN ADMIRATION AND LOVE
The book includes a long interview with Alexandru Ciorănescu, professor of comparative literature and author of over 300 books, at Bahamar in 1999, and four additional interviews taken with him at Radio Free Europe for the show "Controversies-Confluences East-West", a chapter on the inauguration of the CIORĂNESCU Memorial House in Moroieni, and an extract from an article published by Luminița Marcu in "Observator cultural" in November 2009, "Ten Years After the Death of Alexandru Ciorănescu".
ANA AND THE SATAN
Play in five acts, with a presentation consisting of excerpts from a correspondence with director Silviu Purcărete. "The play exploits the contamination of two mythical motifs - the Faustian myth and the myth of the Manolian sacrifice - against the historical background of Vlad Țepeș's time". "The dramatic construction makes ingenious use of these coincidences of motifs assembled in an original vision", writes Titu Popescu, who considers that the play "is, in all, a success, one of our rare dramaturgical values since the '90s".
Jurnalul Literar,1999.
IN WONDERLAND
Sent in 1986 by Radio Free Europe to Charlottesville in the United States, where she spent a semester studying political science at the University of Virginia, the author of the book had the opportunity to come into direct contact with American life, recording a vivid and fascinating experience.
Aius, 2022.
EDITORIAL WORKS
CORRESPONDENCE
THE CORRESPONDENCE between Alexandru Ciorănescu-George Ciorănescu 1946-1964". Letters from the George Ciorănescu archive. Edited and foreword by Crisula Ștefănescu. Bibliotheca Publishing House, Targoviste, 2011. The volume contains 435 letters, in which the two brothers keep up to date with the events in exile, with their literary activity, but especially with their large family, a large part of which remained in the country. A generous source of information, the letters offer a real lesson in life: how to live with dignity, how to be and remain a man of character.
POETRY AND KNOWLEDGE
The edition contains a correspondence of Alexandru Busuioceanu with the Ciorănescu brothers, Alexandru and George, a short study in French, "A Romanian poet in Spain", by George Ciorănescu, "Eight poems from Busuioceanu's cycle, Nenumita luce", translated by George Ciorănescu from Spanish into Romanian, and with an introduction by Alexandru Ciorănescu, poems by St. John of the Cross, in Busuioceanu's translation, as well as a famous article by Busuioceanu, "Poetry and Epiphany", translated by George Ciorănescu from Spanish into Romanian.
Brumar, 2010. Edited by Crisula Ștefănescu.
THE ROMANIAN EXILE
Documents from the archive of the Carol I Royal University Foundation". Romanian Cultural Institute, 2007. The work is based on documents, as many as could be recovered, belonging to the Royal University Foundation Carol I, an institution re-established in Paris, unanimously recognized and appreciated in the world of Romanian exile. The work also includes photographic documentation, which reveals some aspects of the Foundation's activity.
ABSURDE CONFESSIONS
The volume contains the notes of the writer and politician George Ciorănescu during several months in the summer and autumn of 1952, discovered in a notebook after the publication of "Diary Pages" in 2003. They are arranged in the form of chapters of a mini-novel, an expression of George Ciorănescu's experiences of exile and all that it entails.
Brumar, 2010. Edited by Crisula Ștefănescu.
THE REAL STORY
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