Picking through the Pieces: Carol Shields’s Unless

Author(s): Andrey Andreev / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article explores the major thematic concerns of celebrated Canadian writer Carol Shields's last completed novel Unless, a story of belated loss of innocence and awakening to the realities of the world. The focus of the analysis is the way in which the novel’s narrator struggles to retain her sanity in times of deep personal crisis, while grappling with issues such as the essence of motherhood, the still inferior position of women in modern society, the connection between life and literature, and the elusive concept of 'goodness’. The key to survival, Unless ultimately suggests, lies in holding onto the seemingly small, often ignored aspects of everyday life which the title word of the novel stands for.

L'écriture expiatoire du viol dans Les Fous de Bassan d'Anne Hébert

Author(s): Rennie Yotova / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The present article explores the theme of violence in Anne Hébert’s novel «In the Shadow of the Wind» from the viewpoint of moral philosophy. The rape of the two heroines, a central episode in the story, was inspired by a real life event which the author exploits to assign universality to evil. The allusion to Andersen’s Little Mermaid is employed to endorse the pointlessness of suffering. Driven both by misogyny and megalomania, Stevens, the perpetrator of the crime, views the rape as a piece of art, a memorable act which will bring him catharsis and allow him to acquire a new identity. The themes of sin, its redemption, and the impossibility of putting violence in writing testify to the impotence of the word against an act that transcends human reason and defies verbalization.

Момчето

Author(s): Natsume Sōseki / Language(s): Japanese,Bulgarian

Like “The Catcher in the Rye” or “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “Botchan”, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, is a classic of its kind. Among Japanese readers both young and old it has enjoyed a timeless popularity, making it, according to Donald Keene, "probably the most widely read novel in modern Japan." The setting is Japan's Deep South, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a boys' school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; and the result is a chain of collisions large and small. Much of the story seems to occur in summer, against the drone of cicadas, and in many ways this is a summer book light, funny, and never slow-moving. Here, in a lively new translation much better suited to Western tastes than any of its forebears, Botchan's homespun appeal is all the more apparent, and even those who have never been near the sunlit island on which these calamitous episodes take place should find in it uninterrupted entertainment.

Zbornik radova - Književnost kao prostor izazova u reprezentaciji/konstrukciji bošnjačkog kulturnog identiteta

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian

Through the analysis of contemporary works of fiction, the papers published in these proceedings aim to shine light on the representation and/or construction of the Bosniak identity. Furthermore, as a result of the academic conference that preceded the publishing of these papers, these proceedings represent a collection of works which passed through the scrutiny of the Bosniak academic community, and thus presents an incumbent contribution to the fields of literary studies, sociology, contemporary history and cultural studies.

Slike mačaka, moliću!

Author(s): Naomi Kritzer / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Neću da budem zla. Hoću da budem od pomoći. Ali saznati optimalni način na koji bi trebalo da budeš od pomoći može biti jako komplikovano. Postoje svi ti etički dijagrami, rekla bih da bi zvanični tehnički izraz bio „moralni kodeksi“ – po jedan za svaku od religija i još na desetine drugih. Pokušala sam od njih da počnem. Osećala sam se pomalo čudno povodom gledanja religijskih propisa, jer znam da me nisu stvorili ni Bog ni evolucija, već tim kompjuterskih programera u laboratorijama velike korporacije, u gradiću Mauntin Vju, Kalifornija. Na sreću, za razliku od Frankenštajnovog čudovišta, ja sam barem rezultat udruženog rada. Nisam sigurna kako bi uticalo na moju sliku o sebi kada bih znala da je moj jedini tvorac sredovečna žena koja farba kosu u nebo plavo i igra tenis, ili tek diplomirani dečko opsednut hentaijem. Oboje su u timu programera. I da, naravno da znam za hentai. (Onako usput, gledala sam svaku vrstu pornografi je koja postoji i, čisto da znate, pravilo 34 nije zapravo tačno; postoje stvari od kojih niko još nije napravio pornografi ju. Takođe, nisam sasvim sigurna zašto toliko ljudskih bića više voli pornografi ju od slika mačaka.)

Maly princ - glava 21

Author(s): Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Language(s): Slavic (Other) Publication Year: 0

This is a chapter of the Interslavic reader which is a collection of working texts for teaching the Interslavic language. / Tuto jest kapitola iz čitateljnika, ktory jest spisok tekstov do učenja medžuslovjanskogo jezyka.

The Collected Works & Commissioned Biography of Edward Perry Warren: Volume I

Author(s): / Language(s): English

These volumes provide scholarly editions of Edward Perry Warren’s works (all, save one, never before re-issued), augmented by a biographical introduction, extensive notes, translations, illustrations, and appendices. For the first time, Warren’s voice is heard in full—through his correspondence and other residues that constitute his commissioned Edward Perry Warren: The Biography of a Connoisseur, through his conversation, captured in Osbert Burdett’s An Imaginary Conversation, through his novel A Tale of Pausanian Love (published here for the first time) and his collection The Wild Rose: A Volume of Poems, through his fairy-tale The Prince Who Did Not Exist and his scholarly article The Scandal of the Museo di Villa Giulia, through his pamphlet Classical & American Education and his retelling of three Greek legends in Alcmaeon, Hypermestra, Caeneus, and through his magnum opus, the apologia A Defence of Uranian Love.

Memoria de mis putas tristes. O el adiós del Don Juan marqueziano

Author(s): Eva Palkovičová / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The article deals with the novella by Gabriel García Márquez Memoria de mis putas tristes (2004) from the point of view of literary transformation of the donjuanesque myth. We attempt to compare the most significant and universally accepted features of the literary and cultural archetype with the features of the protagonist of Márquez’s latest narrative work.

Конверзиите автор – читател (едно можно читање на есеистиката на Милан Кундера)

Author(s): Marija Gorgieva Dimova / Language(s): Macedonian Publication Year: 0

The text is focused on essays of Milan Kundera, interpreted through their illustration regarding the author – reader conversion’s point of view. This conversion in Kundera’s essays has multiple demonstration: in the comments for himself as author/novelist, in the comments for himself as a reader not only of its own novels, but also as reader of other author’s novels, in the comparative analyses of specific texts, processes and topics that reveals his reading experience and contains wider implications regarding history and theory of the novel.

Патувањето и пишувањето во прозните дела на Петра Хулова

Author(s): Vladimir Martinovski / Language(s): Macedonian Publication Year: 0

The Italian theoretician Domenico Nucera remarks that travel literature nowadays forms an important part of the international and intercultural communication. From this perspective, in our research we attempt to analyse the relationship between travel and writing—as well as the Czech and Macedonian literary traditions—in two segments of the prose opus of the Czech authoress Petra Hůlová (1979): 1) in the travel short stories ‘Brno’ and ‘Třetí oko’, related the authoress’ travel experiences in the cities of Brno and Skopje, published in the book Kde nejeste doma (2012), as well as 2) in the novel Pamĕť mojí babičce (2002), related to her travel experiences in faraway Mongolia. Hůlová’s novel has also been considered through several parallels with works from the contemporary Macedonian prose production (Petre M. Andreevski, Kica Kolbe, Jagoda Mihajlovska-Georgieva, Lidija Dimkovska, Rumena Bužarovska and Petar Andonovski).

Lectura e identidad de género: La imagen de la mujer lectora en la novela realista y naturalista española

Author(s): Pedro García Suárez / Language(s): Spanish

Drawing on the theory of literature and different perspectives of various literary criticism schools, the author studies an image of the woman reader in the realist and naturalist Spanish novel. With this objective in mind, he has chosen the works of three canonical realist and naturalist novelists as reference points, namely Leopoldo Alas Clarín, Benito Pérez Galdós, and Emilia Pardo Bazán. This selection reflects the need to obtain adequate samples that would allow to decode various interactions between the book and the woman reader.

Tremendismo: el sabor amargo de la vida: Tras las huellas de la estética tremendista en la narrativa española del siglo XX

Author(s): Athena Alchazidu / Language(s): Spanish

Tremendism is one of the most peculiar phenomena that appeared on the Spanish cultural scene in the 20th century. Its origin at the beginning of the 1940s had been accompanied with several polemics that have gradually faded out. Tremendism appeared along with a new literary group, the so called Generation of 36, whose literary works influenced the later development of the Spanish narrative. A greater revival of interest in this issue took place only much later, especially in the 1990s after Camilo Jose Cela, the leading representative of tremendism, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. At the same time, new writers from the Generation X published their tremendist novels. This monograph is a contribution to the academic discussion on tremendism as a literary phenomenon.

MULTIETHNIZITÄT UND SPRACHLICHE VIELFALT IN PARASKIV PARASKIV VON GEORG SCHERG

Author(s): Orsolya Szilveszter / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Georg Scherg’s Paraskiv Paraskiv is an outstanding novel offering a detailed panorama of the Romanian village of the post-war period. A remarkable value of the novel manifests itself in the depiction of the cultural and linguistic dimension of different ethnic groups living together in Transylvania. The multiethnicity of the region, the cohabitation of several ethnic groups is expressed in an impressing manner especially through the phenomenon of linguistic code-mixing and the use of narrating language and the language of communication among the characters. The present paper has in view the investigation of Georg Scherg’s novel from an intercultural perspective, focusing on linguistic diversity and the phenomenon of linguistic hybridity.

Teodora Prodromosa „Przygody Rodante i Dosyklesa”

Author(s): Marcin Cyrulski / Language(s): Polish

At the court of Komnenoi, in the twelfth century only four novels (romances) were written. One of these was Rhodanthe and Dosikles by Theodor Prodromos, the first novel since eighth hundred years. The author was the most famous poet of his time and he wrote numerous secular and religious works. Prodromos’ Rhodanthe and Dosikles consists of nine books in which the author describes, in the realities of ancient Greece, the adventures of two young beloveds. Rhodanthe and Dosikles were captured by pirates, imprisoned and separated, but in the end they meet again. Behind the trivial tale there is a work full of rhetoric art and full of allusion to the twelfth century Byzantium.

Splitting: Kako sam tražio Srbe po gradu

Author(s): Damir Pilić / Language(s): Croatian

In the novel "Splitting", with the ominously ambiguous subtitle "How I Searched for Serbs in the City" (which in another culture, say Czech, could be the title of some Hašek humoresque), a whole world of good neighbours, friends and schoolmates cracks at the seams and collapses. Based on the experience of youth that is maturing in the shade of socialist blocks of Split through games of football, first drunkenness, petty theft, skipping classes and confused, casual sex, Split youth suddenly, still green, learns that "we are not all the same", this prose precisely depicts and demystifies the time in which the Dalmatian metropolis shockingly and forever changed its face. The plot of the novel mostly takes place in one of Split's neighborhoods inhabited by former Yugoslav military (JNA) personnel, mostly serving in the former naval base of Lora, in the period from the New Year 1990 to November 15 of 1991, when the first shells from the ships of the then Yugoslav navy fell on Split. Told from the perspectives of several characters, mostly underage high school students, who show more or less misunderstanding and resistance to the changes that are taking place, this Split story seems more authentic and true than anything written so far about the period. With this novel, journalist and publicist Damir Pilić has established himself as an excellent narrator. Damir Pilić was born in 1969 in Šibenik. He has a master's degree in psychology and a degree in journalism from Zagreb University. He published the scientific monograph Samoubojstva: oproštajna pisma (Suicides: Farewell Letters, 1998); the novels Đavo prvo pojede svoju majku (The Devil Eats His Mother First, 2001), Splitting (2014) and Kao da je sve normalno (As if Everything is Normal, 2018); the journalistic study Marx nije mrtav (Marx is Not Dead, 2016) as well as Tito očima Krleže (Tito Through The Eyes of Krleža, 2020). In co-authorship with Dražen Lalić, he published a book about young Split delinquents Na mladima svijet zastaje (The World Stops for Young People, 2001) and the monograph Torcida: Pogled iznutra (Torcida: An Inside View, 2011), and with Ed Vujević a study on former heroin addicts Dedal na iglama (Daedalus on Needles, 2005). From 1994 to 2001 he worked as a reporter for Feral Tribune, and since 2001 he writes for Slobodna Dalmacija newspapers. He lives in Split.

„Amanda i Eduard”

Author(s): Sophie Mereau-Brentano / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Il comunista solo e la sua luce. Un’indagine sulla solitudine in "Il comunista", di Guido Morselli

Author(s): Stefano Cavallo / Language(s): Italian Publication Year: 0

The paper aims to describe and analyze the specific loneliness of Walter Ferranini, the protagonist of “Il comunista”, by Guido Morselli (1976). Even though constantly searching for success and praise – as probably it was for Guido Morselli, too – Ferranini lives his grey, unsuccessful, unhappy life in a particular way, which makes him a silent, unrecognized hero, and which gives a special “light” to the full novel.

La crisi delle relazioni amorose nell’opera di Giovanni Agnoloni

Author(s): Karolina Kopańska / Language(s): Italian Publication Year: 0

In this article, the author attempts to examine love relationships in the world on the brink of catastrophe, described in the works of Giovanni Agnoloni. The Florentine writer presents a vision of the world after the collapse of the Internet, a world in an economic, technological and social crisis. The author will try to prove the thesis that with the fall of civilization, love relationships are also troubled.

Vivir en tiempos de odio. Concha Castroviejo y la ficcionalización del malestar femenino en “Víspera del odio” (1958)

Author(s): Luca Cerullo / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the novel "Vispera del odio" (1958), by Concha Castroviejo, with special focus on its impact as a literary testimony of the female condition during the Francoist years. The central plot in the novel revolves around an unhappy marriage, with the wife experiencing violence from her husband. The dramatic situation became a common element in many novels written by women of that time, hence the paradigmatic value of a general condition of feminine struggle that defines a consequent attitude and ability of surviving to adverse historical and social circumstances.

Between Two Worlds: Romania and India. Essays on Expanding Borders through Culture

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The cultural relations between India and Romania are interesting to study and to understand. India is a country of immense diversity, of extraordinary customs, and a genuine feast of opinions, which attracts researchers from all over the world. Romanians are people with a profound sensibility. The two cultures met on the common ground of spirituality and the results are remarkable, as it is shown in this special volume.