through europe - romania

Suicide as protest in Romania and Tunisia

Oana Parvan — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:02:20 +0000

On 24th December 2010, in the Romanian parliament, a bleeding man was shouting “Freedom!” while being carried outside by the paramedics. He had just tried to kill himself, jumped from the journalists’ balcony, little before the prime minister began his speech.
This surreal image is the pitiless representation of Romanian society: an autistic political class and an aphasic public opinion.

Il suicidio come forma di protesta in Romania e in Tunisia

Oana Parvan — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:57:02 +0000

Il 24 dicembre 2010, nel Parlamento rumeno, un uomo in fin di vita urla "Libertà!" a squarcia gola, mentre, insanguinato, viene portato via dai soccorsi. Si era appena gettato nel vuoto, dal balcone dei giornalisti, poco prima che il premier iniziasse il suo discorso.
Quest’immagine surreale contiene in sé la rappresentazione impietosa della società rumena. Una classe politica autistica e un’opinione pubblica afasica.

I've seen happy Romanians

Oana Parvan — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:22:43 +0000

Imagine you're living in a country not very different from Italy. You can breath the corruption in the air, the great public works cost three times more than anywhere else and are never finished and the winners of the public auctions are decided by a phone call. The press - when not "porniphicated" - is declared by the authorities "a menace for the national security" and the opposition - when it's not the government's accomplice - is only patient and waiting for the electoral wheel to turn in its favor.

Am intalnit si romani fericiti

Oana Parvan — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:16:41 +0000

Imagineaza-ti ca traiesti intr-o tara asemanatoare cu Italia. Coruptia se transmite prin aer, marile opere publice costa de trei ori mai mult si nu sunt niciodata finalizate iar castigatorii licitatilor publice se decid cu un telefon dat cui trebuie. Presa – cand nu e total “pornificata” – este declarata “un pericol pentru siguranta nationala” iar opozitia – cand nu e complice – e rabdatoare si asteapta, sperand ca roata electorala sa se invarte in favoara ei.