Mega Publishing House launched on Friday, at its stand at the Gaudeamus Book Fair 2025, the second volume of the album "'Some Peasants' from the Village of Yesteryear", funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration, available at the fair in a bilingual Romanian-English edition.
The volume is authored by Paula Popoiu, director of the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum.
"Since the book uses part of Dinu Sararu's title [well-known Romanian novelist who wrote 'Some peasants', editor's note], I spoke to him when working on the first volume and asked for his permission. He agreed, shared many stories with me, and even showed me photos of his family and the peasants from Horezu. The book stems from several years of archival research that I began in 2005, when I took over the leadership of the Village Museum. Several series of documents left by Dimitrie Gusti have been published over time, but this book was born out of that affinity and as a result of my conversation with Dinu Sararu," Popoiu told AGERPRES.
The museum director explained that the album, produced to high graphic standards and richly illustrated, brings together portraits of villagers from the museum's archive, selected according to a mostly aesthetic rather than documentary criterion.
"It shows diversity - beautiful portraits of women and children. This year, in the second volume, we also included portraits of the villagers who worked, in 1936, on the construction of the Village Museum. The documents remain in the archive; the book is more of a synthesis, gathering them in one place. We will continue with other volumes because we still have many documents to publish," Popoiu noted.
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