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Петар II Петровић Његош и Иво Андрић као оријенталисти: идеолошка рецепција књижевног опуса двојице српских писаца

Author(s): Boris D. Bulatović / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2019

Research in this paper is focused on identifying and analizing the ideological aspects of reception of the two recognized Serbian writers (Njegoš, the most famous Serbian poet of 19th century; and Ivo Andrić, the Nobel prize winner) in late 20th and early 21st century slavic and historical research. It is shown that a considerable number of foreign academic reviews of Serbian literature subjected it to exclusively political contextualization and interpretation, misinterpreted it as nationalistic and orientalistic, and finally – in many examples the reason for including it in the sphere of academic interest was completely outside the domain of literature.

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Perspectives on Conrad’s Transcultural Protagonists in the Malay Trilogy

Author(s): Anna Szczepan-Wojnarska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Joseph Conrad, a writer of Polish origin, who wrote in English, could be seen as a precursor of today’s transnational writers. It seems that few, if any, other writers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods had Conrad’s open-minded view of other cultures. The variety of nationalities represented in his novels and short stories reflects his thorough immersion in the cultures that he encountered during his travels and proves that his imagination was not limited by imaginary notions of geographical boundaries. The present article focuses on the Malay trilogy where none of the characters seems to be complete or sufficiently able to express themselves. Self-identification is achieved dialogically in their interactions with each other, but also in the ways in which they relate to their own complex selves. In this process, Conrad deliberately reverses and/or deforms certain categories of self-definition.

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Порфирий Петрович – между професионализма и нравствеността

Author(s): Hristo Manolakev / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

The article studies the character and the plot function of Porfiry Petrovich, one of the basic characters in F. Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. The study aims to prove that he can be seen as the protagonist Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov’s double in worldview only in the context of the Napoleonic idea. A detailed hermeneutic analysis of the three encounters between the two characters reveals that under the guise of the Law Porfiry Petrovich has adopted and employed this idea in its ontological purity as the will to exercise power over the rest. The outlined proximity supports the hypothesis that Porfiry Petrovich has a biography, symbolically speaking. It enters discourse imperceptibly as shared by Raskolnokov in terms of the biography of the idea, its birth, and how it is experienced by both men

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Малък щрих към темата „Набоков и Достоевски“

Author(s): Mariana Shopova-Hristova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

The present text aims to focus on a curious episodic presence of Dostoevsky in Nabokov’s final Russian novel, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑓𝑡 (1938). In this novel, in a few sentences, three Russian writers of the 19th century – Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky and Nekrasov – are brought together and portrayed in an ironic light against the background of the famous May fires of 1862 in Saint Petersburg.

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Universuri traumatice și „cai verzi pe pereți”

Author(s): Gabriela Chiciudean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

Novelist Helene Pflitsch is thematically placed alongside Radu Aldulescu, Camelia Cavadia, Ioana Nicolaie, Simona Popescu and others. Torturous images of times not so long ago are presented by the careful and sensitive eye of a creator of plots and characters with destinies that are difficult for today's young people to understand. Adults and youth who had a childhood full of material deprivation, lived in broken families, with parents always searching for a profitable business, “a perfect house”, or become vicious when their dreams fall apart, here the novel's theme “Let go of Yesterday”. Helene Pflitsch captures their sufferings, fears, transformations or breakdowns due to the adverse impact of adults on children. In a small provincial town in Transylvania, “the children of the photographer and Oly-drunk” (Pflitsch 2022: 102) live their traumas and consume their energies until exhaustion. Childhood trauma is well outlined and follows an identifiable construct in writings of this kind, the tragedies in the photographer's family being presented by following the destiny of each member, which is undoubtedly heading towards division, identity extinction and, most importantly, loneliness.

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Бесарабските хроники на Aнна Малешкова и Николай Куртев

Author(s): Elena Nalbantova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The article is dedicated to the prose works of two contemporary Bulgarian Bessarabian authors. The first part of the paper presents biographical and thematic details about the authors, and the second part considers their common fiction books.

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99 rruzaret smaragdi: komunikimi me lexuesin

Author(s): Mimoza Pllana / Language(s): Albanian,English Issue: 1/2021

99 emerald rosaries; a novel that stands out for its language with personal and impersonal references; a novel that creates from universal themes, harmonious with the life of the author, the people around him, with the real culture of Kosovar natives; is built by different types of characters, making them dynamic. The protagonist of novels is also the author and the people who tend to interact with him by connecting the texts with each other to create a whole story full of emotions. The author of the novel, Zejnullah Rrahmani, in the Albanian literature is known as an author who writes prose, short stories and novels; he deals with grand national topics, but also those overpass its boundaries by writing about life cycles, individual efforts towards a specific goal, love, coping with difficult situations, but also discovering the world around; from birthplace /village, to the city and new horizons, that are known as universal themes.

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MENTAL DISTORTIONS IN WOYZECK BY GEORG BÜCHNER AND THE VISIT OF THE OLD LADY BY FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT

Author(s): Roxana Rogobete / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

The present study focuses on mental or psychological distortions that appear in two texts, Woyzeck by Georg Büchner and The Visit of the Old Lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. We argue that these depict the alienation of characters, alienation which can be traced as a manifestation of the grotesque, juxtaposed with the absurd. If Büchner‘s character incorporates bestiary elements, Dürrenmatt chooses the grotesque to represent the paradox in his works, both of them describing in fact a defragmentation of the sense.

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AMBIGUITY—UNCERTAINTY—AFFORDANCE

Author(s): Dragoş Avădanei / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2019

The paper comments on three works titled Seven Types of Ambiguity (William Empson’s critical book of 1930, Shirley Jackson’s 1943 short story and Elliot Perlman’s 2003 novel), and another one titled Seven Modes of Uncertainty (2014) by Carla Namwali Serpell, i.e. four authors of four continents. Ambiguity is fundamentally rejected in science and philosophy, uncertainty is the subject of (drastic) reductions in communication theory, computer science, environmental studies, business/management, economics, engineering…, mathematics, and affordance is not as yet convincingly defined conceptually, but all three, as permanent resources of errors, imprecision, indeterminacies and unreliability, are richly and fruitfully present in literature; so the last author uses her modes of uncertainty to discuss ambiguity and affordance (less convincingly) and, paradoxically, uncertainty itself; consequently, this is a paper of uncertainty about ambiguity, uncertainty and affordance, after all.

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WAR, LOSS, AND ALIENATION: THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO

Author(s): Emanuela Tegla / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2019

Christy Lefteri’s novel, The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019), represents, in fictional form, urgent contemporary matters, such as immigration, war, displacement, and alienation. The narrative is based on experiences of real refugees in Athens, where the author worked with them as a volunteer in 2016 and 2017. By insightfully presenting the contrast between life before the war, the hardships they face when forced to leave home, and the implications this life event entails, Lefteri challenges the contemporary prevalent assumptions, based mainly on superficial knowledge and narrow thinking, according to which immigrants in general, and war refugees, in particular, have a choice. The alternative this part of humanity faces is between remaining and die, or taking the chance and travelling, often in inhuman conditions, to a country that might offer them security. By skilfully employing a simple narrative style and by inserting geographical and temporal shifts between the present (in England) and the past (in Aleppo, or during the journey to England), Lefteri questions complex realities and challenges the reader to revise his/her unexamined assumptions and, by appealing to the moral dimension of the situation, contributes to the development of the reader’s empathetic imagination.

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EROTIC PASSION IN THE NOVELS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND CAMIL PETRESCU

Author(s): Andreea Dinu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18/2019

Although most critics have seen The Great Gatsby of F.Scott Fitzgerald and The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War of Camil Petrescu as being about the American dream or war, it cannot be denied that both authors dedicated a major part of their novels to the love stories of the characters. This paper aims to present the way in which the characteristics of limerance affected the characters in the afore mentioned novels. Limerance is a term used in psychology to define erotic passion that pulses into mad love, the condition of being in love. Camil Petrescu seems to be aware of the love theory, but he did not allow his characters to fall under the spell of love. This is way, Ştefan and Ela are not able to fix their marital problems caused by jealousy and lack of confidence and the divorce comes as an inevitable consequence. Jay Gatsby is the only character that is madly in love and all his performance during the plot is a result of his mood.

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ROOTLESS CHILDHOOD, SHATTERED CHILDHOOD

Author(s): Simona Laura Şuta / Language(s): French Issue: 19/2019

The quest of identity is a necessary way and fascinating for each human being in part. Belonging to a family, relating to your predecessors is the one thing that creates the balance and the roots for every person. “L`enfant de Noe” fights to save the appearance and the continuity.

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A LETTER TO MOTHER: “ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS” BY OCEAN VUONG

Author(s): Anca Bădulescu / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2020

Ocean Vuong’s novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”, written in the form of a letter to the protagonist’s mother, is a Bildungsroman, a confession and self-analysis. It deals with war and trauma, with violence and immigration, with queerness and loneliness. Nevertheless, this surprising prose work is at the same time an experiment with poetical language. This article aims at highlighting Vuong’s mastery in structuring his novel and using words in a unique way.

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Amikor a középosztálybeli nő írni kezdett. Interjú Séllei Nóra irodalomtörténésszel, műfordítóval

Author(s): Júlia-Réka Vallasek,Nóra Séllei / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 865/2023

Interview with Literary Historian and Translator Nóra Séllei by Júlia Vallasek.

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STRUCTURES OF LANGUAGE IN ”A DEATH THAT DOESN'T PROVE ANYTHING”

Author(s): Andreia Maria Demeter / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 21/2020

When Anton Holban writes about literature, one can hardly say that he does a proper literary critics. But reading sympathetically the books that meet this anxieties, he manages to formulate deep observations, in spite of an insufficient critical language. The writer did not practise a professionalized reading, like it is sometimes the case of the critics who are obliged to accept piles of volumes, no matter their value, in order to set a hierarchy. Holban often confessed that, given the shortness of life (this is one of his fundamental premonitions) he couldn’t afford to read what he wasn’t interested in. His readings are obssessive and elective. Racine, B. Constant, Fromentin, Proust, Huxley, Thomas Hardy, H. Papadat-Bengescu are his reference authors. Holban’s work identifies with his own life, he didn’t add anything, he just repeated, he didn’t invent but reproduced, being interested only to create an authentic atmosphere proving that he is the promoter of a modern poetics in novel, whose centre is the concept of authenticity. The novelist adopts an insolite strategy aimed to confuse the reader, giving the same name to different characters. He prefers the first person narrative and this reality is able to place the writer in the centre of his own interest, literature becoming a process of self-knowledge. Holban depicts himself only in one character who gathers all the experiences, feelings, anxieties, fears and aspirations, in a word, his human condition.

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Pierre Loti et André Malraux : ironie et tragédie des écrivains français en Asie

Author(s): Giovanni Salvagnini Zanazzo / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

The essay analyses, in the novels Madame Chrysanthème (1887) by Pierre Loti and La Condition humaine (1933) by André Malraux, the strategies of representation and comprehension of cultural Alterity from these French writers, and their effects on the register of the text. In particular, the ironic mode will be distinguished from the tragic mode. In this sense, the difference between the auto-diegetic statute of Lotian narrator, and the polyphony of characters who animate Malraux’s novel has also been underlined.

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Artistic Fabulation: Novel Forms of Heroes in the Visual Arts

Author(s): Tünde Varga / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

It is significant how the concept of Carlyle’s “heroic clear visuality” was challenged by late 19th-century Black Americans. Nicholas Mirzoeff points out two cases: Sojourner Truth’s tactic, “inverse visuality”, and W.E.B. Du Bois’ “veiled visuality”. My paper examines divergent art works or projects exhibited in 2021-22 to track how a shift from “heroic clear visuality” is present in new visual narratives which demand new ways of “looking”. In my view, new works are radical in their claim for a special form of opacity (Glissant): on the one hand, they recommend a more emphatic counter-visual narrative by Indigenous groups (the former anti-heroes). On the other hand, they demand a mode of bodily seeing – or rather sensing – with the represented (of new non-human heroes). (Haraway).

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ANDROID VERSUS HOMO SAPIENS

Author(s): Anca Bădulescu / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2020

The paper endeavors to give an answer to a question inherent in Ian McEwan’s novel “Machines Like Me. And People Like You”: will the future of humanity be governed or even controlled by artificial intelligence? Will androids replicate entirely and replace ‘homo sapiens’? Furthermore, does complying with a strict moral code or purely logic thinking of a robot outweigh a flesh and blood individual’s tolerance and compassion? The end of McEwan’s 2019 novel, “Machines Like Me” points at the possibility of an AI supremacy in the future. It will be the humans’ huge task to figure out how ‘to make friends’ with the new machines.

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THE IMPACT OF THE CIVIL WAR ON MARGARET MITCHELL’S MAIN SOUTHERN CHARACTERS IN GONE WITH THE WIND

Author(s): Oana-Andreea Ghiță-Pîrnuță / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2021

The present paper aims at presenting the ways in which the Civil War has affected the main characters in Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind”. The focus is laid upon the major characters and their transformations caused by the Civil War. Scarlett is the female protagonist and she has changed due to the influence of war, she gave up all her principles and did everything necessary to survive. She was determined to achieve any goal that she wanted, she was thinking about future, her opportunities instead of her losses. Rhett is Scarlett’s male version and he went through an interesting transformation. First, he was ignorant about war, he knew that it was useless, he was making money out of the destruction of the South; in one moment of sentimentality or sense of duty, he joined the army and fought for the South. Finally, the present paper proves the point that the Civil War has significantly influenced Margaret Mitchell’s characters and their evolution. The South and its people were deeply affected by war, it changed people and their way of living. The war took away a lot of things from them and it also transformed the South.

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SEMINO’S MIND STYLE IN LYNDA MULLALY HUNT’S FISH IN A TREE

Author(s): Alina Lucia ARDELEAN / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2021

The paper tackles a linguistic approach to Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s Fish in a Tree to underline how the readers can better interpret and perceive the protagonist’s disorder, called Dyslexia. This book offers to the reader considerable shreds of evidence of the “mind style” (Semino,2014: 282) of a middle-school student, Ally, who has cognitive potential despite the fact that she is suffering from dyslexia and which turns her into a trouble making child who finally succeeds to surpass her difficulties.

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