Maturity
Professional returns, research, university life, and cultural encounters.
The memoir pages may be read in several ways. There is a chronological order, from childhood to maturity, but there are also transverse threads: family, emigration, friendships, cultural encounters, research, travels, and late reflections. This page does not replace the indexes of the individual sections; it tries instead to offer a clearer way into the whole.
By stages of life
Maturity, emigration, youth, student years, adolescence, childhood.
Family and genealogy
Close relatives, lines of descent, the file of the unknown grandfather.
Direct entries
Episodes, friends, cultural encounters, places, and reflections.
The stages of a life
The chronology is presented in reverse order, from maturity back toward childhood, so that the richer and more recent pages are readily accessible without losing the biographical route. Within each stage, the pages are grouped along four recurring threads: life and context; episodes, people, and places; education, profession, and research; culture and reflections. Only headings for which corresponding pages exist are displayed.
Emigration
The departure in 1989, the Rome of waiting, and the construction of a new life in Italy.
Life and context
Episodes, people, and places
Education, profession, and research
Youth
Professional formation, the Romanian university, friendships, and the period itself.
Life and context
Episodes, people, and places
- A Window Between Two Lives (restricted access)
- Two sides of the same friendship. (acces protejat)
- A special First of May
- Holidays at Schitu
Education, profession, and research
Student years
Politehnica, intellectual beginnings, internships, music, and youthful encounters.
Life and context
Episodes, people, and places
Education, profession, and research
Culture and reflections
Adolescence
High school, readings, family, and the first forms of self-awareness.
Life and context
Episodes, people, and places
Education, profession, and research
Childhood
The home, the neighbourhood, post-war Bucharest, first memories, and first separations.
Life and context
Episodes, people, and places
- The Eroticism of a Child (restricted access)
- My neighbourhood
- A year in Steierdorf
Family, relatives, and genealogy
The family is kept separate from the portraits of friends, teachers, or people encountered later. It is not simply a category of persons, but the originating layer of memory.
The family core
Grandparents and ancestry
Genealogy
Direct reading entries
The following selection no longer follows chronology. It brings forward autonomous pages suitable for readers who enter the site without knowing its architecture.
Episodes
Friends, encounters, portraits
Family members are not included here; they have their own separate section.
Places and travels
Culture, university, research
Reflections
A short selection for orientation; the complete index of reflection pages appears below as a separate section.
First reading
A short selection for readers entering the Memoirs section for the first time.
All reflections
This list includes not only the pages located in the technical “Reflections” subsection, but also cultural, artistic, university-related, and memorial reflections placed elsewhere in the memoirs. Altogether, it offers twenty-two reading entries.
Reflections proper
- Memories Change Their Meaning
- Towards a World Without Rules
- La donna è mobile...
- The Limits of Admiration
- Digital Shadow and the Light of the Future
- Today, Technology and I
- In the Colours of Positive Pessimism
- Dialogue on the Future of Technology
- School between Memory, Method, and Artificial Intelligence
- How a University Field Is Born
Cultural, artistic, technological, and memorial reflections
- Wagner Listening Sessions at the Conservatory
- Hanging Gardens. The Story of a Painting by Alin Gheorghiu
- Sergiu Celibidache and Bruckner
- Gustav Mahler – Between Song, Restlessness, and Farewell
- My Neighborhood: Dealul Spirii, Uranus, and Calea 13 Septembrie
- One Year in Steierdorf
- My Father and His Plan
- A Half Return
- The Beginning of Research in Italy
- My Path in Research. The 70s
- My Path in Research – The 1980s
- The Architecture of Agentic AI Systems: The Return of Software Engineering
For complete lists, readers may use the indexes of the individual sections. This page is meant as an access map: it shows the main directions and brings to the surface pages that would otherwise remain hidden in the depth of the site.