[Sisyphus]

I don’t really intend for this blog to be only a site for self-promotion, but lately there’s been some positive things to report; I promise to post material less ego-centric soon, but in the meantime…

I gave an interview here in Brașov several months ago, and the results have been published in online cultural review SISIF.  The journal seems interesting and varied, with interviews, essays, poetry, art, and other material.  Sadly my Romanian skills aren’t really up to snuff.  There are some English contributions, but the bulk of the work will be lost to you if you don’t vorbesti Romanesti.  If you do happen to speak the limba romăn, please check out the article written about my work, I’d be interested to hear some feedback (as would, I’m sure, the author, Ramone Tane).

I also want to get in touch with the magazine’s founders.  There’s a varied and interesting tradition of cultural reviews here in Romania, but I’m especially interested to speak with people doing it in the modern online idiom.  It also peaks my interest to have the magazine named after Sisyphus; regardless of his detractors, I’m a commited fan/student of Albert Camus*, and he has definitely convinced me to consider and reconsider the man pushing his boulder up the hill.

What does that act symbolize here in Romania?

*Is this what it means to be a student?