But unlike Paris, it is half Oriental, looking as much like Istanbul or Cairo as like Paris, Brussels, or Vienna. Like nineteenth-century Paris, Bucharest has a subterranean life, full of mysteries. A foreigner has to spend many years here to get the zest of the city and to get to love its inhabitants. Otherwise, Bucharest might seem overwhelmingly intricate, like a spider web or a labyrinth, it might look unsettling and dangerous. Even more, you have to be born by it and look like it. You have to be born here to understand and feel it. If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains.Ĭan you describe the mood of Bucharest as you feel/see it?īucharest is like the Basque language: you can learn it only from your mother.
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