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Our culture does not need a national day, but "free and enthusiastic artists," an audience "longing for beauty," an effervescent atmosphere to generate ideas and novelty, writer Mircea Cartarescu told AGERPRES.
The writer believes that the Culture Day is "just propaganda."
"The Culture Day costs the authorities nothing, it's just propaganda, inefficient and superficial. It was established so as to overlap with Eminescu's birthday, a very great poet, but one who would have been misunderstood and persecuted if he had lived today, including by those who chant his name the loudest today. The Culture Day is in fact every day when a good poem is written, a good exhibition is opened, a good film is made or a new song is born," added Mircea Cartarescu.
Confirmed through Law no. 238/2010, at the proposal of academician Eugen Simion, the National Culture Day is celebrated on January 15, when the birthday of the poet Mihai Eminescu is marked.
