Room 5. An Antidote to Forgetting. How can an encounter survive time and distance?

Ion Vianu, a psychiatrist, and Matei Călinescu, a poet and writer, met in a Romania paralysed by the terror of the Stalinist regime established in 1947. Their friendship blossomed despite the fear and mistrust sown among the people by a regime that sought above all to control minds.

 

 

Encounters. Or how a new world begins.
  1. Nicolae Grigorescu, Young Peasant Woman Resting, circa 1885
  2. Room 1. A love longer than detention. When does an encounter become the great love?
  3. Room 1. A love longer than detention. When does an encounter become the great love?
  4. Room 2. Resistance through friendship. What if it takes courage for an encounter to last?
  5. Room 2. Resistance through friendship. What if it takes courage for an encounter to last?
  6. Room 3. Forgetting the most precious thing. How can an encounter turn into loneliness?
  7. Room 3. Forgetting the most precious thing. How can an encounter turn into loneliness?
  8. Room 4. The Beauty that is born. What can great encounters give birth to?
  9. Room 4. The Beauty that is born. What can great encounters give birth to?
  10. Room 5. An Antidote to Forgetting. How can an encounter survive time and distance?
  11. Room 5. An Antidote to Forgetting. How can an encounter survive time and distance?
  12. Room 6. Loyalty. And Death. What price I am willing to pay for my friend?
  13. Room 6. Loyalty. And Death. What price I am willing to pay for my friend?
  14. Room 7. To the One Whose Hand I Knew How to Hold Only for a Few Moments
  15. Conclusion. The Attic.