Memory as Performance: Bogdan Coșa Remembers His "First American"

Our online series “My First American: Transatlantic Encounters and Portraits”, where some of the best-known contemporary Romanian writers recall their consequential encounter with the first American seen up and close, continues with poet, prose writer and editor Bogdan Coșa, one of the young stars of Romanian literary scene. With dramatic flair and expressive impetuosity, the multi-awarded author pictures his first meeting with a transatlantic fellow right in the middle of a Disneyesque German schloss. English version of the text by Andrew Davidson-Novosivschei.  

Watch on our Facebook, YouTube, IGTV and Website on Tuesday, May 24, 2 p.m. EST or any time later. 

“My First American: Transatlantic Encounters and Portraits” is an online program developed in partnership with the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest. Next authors in the series:  Adriana Babeți, Florin Lăzărescu, Elena Vlădăreanu, and Caius Dobrescu.  

Bogdan Coșa (b. 1989) graduated from the Faculty of Letters…