Translating the Dynamics of Fictional Space: Estonian Translation of Marcel Proust’s Le Temps retrouvé

Author(s): Madli Kütt / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The article discusses the way that Proust’s text constructs dynamic and static elements of fictional space, and the further dynamisation or fixation of these elements by the process of translation. The focus of the study is on how movements of fictional space and characters can change in strength, direction and manner, when translated. In other words, rather than looking for that which is “lost in translation”, we are dealing with a comparison of two fictional worlds and the processes in them and between them.

Peinture du moi dans la Correspondance de Flaubert. De l’ego dolens à l’ego furens

Author(s): Franck Colotte / Language(s): French Issue: 29/2022

In his extensive correspondence, Gustave Flaubert expresses a number of opinions and writes his fantasised autobiography, which he stages by directly involving his authorial self in epistolary situations where captatio benevolentiae leads him to put forward either a suffering self or a self experiencing strong emotions. He thus seeks to create an epistolary identity for himself, to create a “Flaubert” trademark.

De l’alter ego inversé au moi-chimère. Mélusine, André Breton et l’Arménie

Author(s): Stéphane Cermakian / Language(s): French Issue: 29/2022

The poet's quest for identity is realized in André Breton’s works through a projection on a female figure which takes the form of the fairy Mélusine in the poetic story Arcane 17. However, his rewriting of the myth is part of an Armenian constellation which is constituting itself in the life of the poet at the same time. The search for the inverted alter ego leads to the chimera-self through which we can hear the echo of the founder of Lusignan’s kingdom.

« La littérature doit échapper à toute forme de dogmatisme, d’idéologie, de mode, de terrorisme intellectuel ou moral. L’écrivain doit s’affirmer comme un homme libre. » Entretien avec Michel Lambert

Author(s): Michel Lambert,Mihaela-Genţiana Stănişor / Language(s): French Issue: 29/2022

This interview addresses, among other themes, the art of the short story writing, the construction of the action and of the characters, the impact of style on readers, the future of literature and books and Lambert’s last collection of short stories, Je me retournerai souvent (2020).

Un intellectuel d’une envergure occidentale

Author(s): Ion Dur / Language(s): French Issue: 29/2022

This is a tribute to the Belgian poet Eugène van Itterbeek which highlights his cultural and literary achievements during his stay at Sibiu and Cisnădioara.

Eugène van Itterbeek, l’érudit occidental à Sibiu et à Cisnădioara

Author(s): Rodica Brad / Language(s): French Issue: 29/2022

This article centers on the extraordinary figure of Belgian intellectual, Eugène van Itterbeek, philologist and poet who decided in 1994 to settle in Romania, at Sibiu and Cisnădioara. He was a founder of East-West Poetry Centre, chief editor of Transilvania and Saeculum, professor at University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu and coordinator for many years of Emil Cioran International Colloquiam.

Un cioranien mystique

Author(s): Brum José Thomaz / Language(s): French Issue: 29/2022

This text is a tribute to Eugène van Itterbeek and focuses on the mystical facet of the Belgian poet fascinated by Romania and Cioran.

Eugène van Itterbeek

Author(s): Ger Leppers / Language(s): French Issue: 29/2022

The author evokes the personality of the Flemish poet, writer and professor, Eugène van Itterbeek, as he came to know him, and his life in Belgium and, later, in Romania.

Eugène van Itterbeek – solidaire et solitaire

Author(s): Mihaela-Genţiana Stănişor / Language(s): French Issue: 29/2022

This text is a tribute to Belgian professor and poet Eugène van Itterbeek. We describe the exile of the writer, born in Leuven, to Sibiu and Cisnădioara, and we highlight his academic, cultural and literary activities.

The Distribution of the Sensible in Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Author(s): Mercedes VERNET / Language(s): English Issue: 29/2022

This article explores the concept developed by the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, the distribution of the sensible, and applies it to the analysis of the construction and perception of one of the best known monsters in literary history: Mr Hyde. As the distribution of the sensible refers, broadly speaking, to who is allowed to speak, what is visible and what remains invisible within a perceptual framework, this article offers an analysis of narrative voices that allow readers to get a glimpse of Mr Hyde’s mysterious identity and his relationship with respectable Dr Jekyll. Their silences also speak of the true nature of this monster, special attention being given to the reasons why narrative voices fail to provide a full account of events. Consequently, what is said by various characters in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and whatis left unsaid guide the study that ultimately attempts at determining the aesthetico-political regime the novella —written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886— belongs to.

Le monstre dans Thérèse Raquin d’Emile Zola : Représentations et esthétique

Author(s): Elyssa Rebaï / Language(s): French Issue: 29/2022

Thérèse Raquin, a novel of youth which constituted a decisive turning point in the romantic career of Émile Zola, surprises its reader by the omnipresence of the question of monstrosity and the polysemic use of the word “monster”, thereby revealing Zola’s will to exploit all the richness of the vocabulary and his refusal to confine the term to a fixed and restricted definition. The author uses the word “monster” in a multitude of senses, referring to architectural ugliness, bodily infirmity, behavioral deceit, in order to highlight the transgression of moral and social law. The novel is also striking by its dialectic of the ugly and the beautiful. Our article is therefore aiming to study the monster varieties related to space, bodies and characters in Thérèse Raquin, with some attention provided to the aesthetics of the monstrous.

Unseen Monsters: The Horla by Guy de Maupassant

Author(s): Bianca Mihaela Crişan / Language(s): English Issue: 29/2022

As fear is a common trope that dominates the Gothic genre, it embodies subconscious manifestations of anxieties, relationships, and beliefs. There is a resistance against the simplification of fear, as the intimate workings of the mind provide a unique insight onto this trope. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the infiltration of a monster into the life of an unnamed man, driving him to suicide. Taking on the short story, The Horla by Guy de Maupassant, and focusing on how the balance between real and unreal is created, the present study aims to will prove that fear can influence the emotional and mental state of an individual, bringing upon hallucinations, paranoia, and extreme actions. Even more so, taking into consideration the author’s personal struggles with mental health will help provide an extra layer of understanding the narrator of the short story, as the real-life experiences of the author are mirrored in the tale.

Quand un petit ornement nous rattache au reel : Le ruban au cou d’Olympia de Michel Leiris

Author(s): Maricela Strungariu / Language(s): French Issue: 46/2021

Le ruban au cou d’Olympia, the adulthood work of Michel Leiris, one of the most original French autobiographers of the 20th century, transgresses generic and artistic borders in order to create an image as faithful as possible of the modern man in the grip of existential anxieties and identity crises. Motley, fragmentary, oscillating between reality and fiction, prose and poetry, text and image, this book is an edifice that the author erects to give his life a meaning and a reality and, ultimately, to save himself from death and oblivion.

ENJEUX CRITIQUES DE LA DÉRISION POÉTIQUE CHEZ MATÉÏ VIȘNIEC

Author(s): Corina Croitoru / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2022

The Critical Stakes of Poetic Derision in the Work of Matei Vișniec. This paper revisits the poetry written by Matei Vișniec during the communist period in order to prove that it can be read as a civil action against the totalitarian system. It relies on the examination of Vișniec’s deployment of a series of strategies of derision, such as allusions, irony, humor, or parables. The main purpose of this re-reading is to both emphasize the subversive character of the writer’s poetic work, a rather particular case in its ethical challenging of communist realities in relation to the postmodernist aesthetic program, and underline the idealism of an ironic poet in whose vision the writer is, above all, a professional disruptor of dogmata.

ДА, СВЕДОК, ТРЕБА МИ СВЕДОК, СВЕ ДОК… НЕ СВРШИМ СА УМИРАЊЕМ (Мајлис Бесри: Треће доба, превела с француског Оља Петронић, Геопоетика, Београд, 2022)

Author(s): Violeta V. Stojmenović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 534/2022

Flober ili umjetnost kao životni poziv

Author(s): Dragan Bogojević / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 2/2009

There are only a few are writers who have made as great an impact on entire generations as Gustav Flaubert did. It seems that the whole literary era begins and ends with his work and appearance. He defies challenging and leading ideas and belief systems of his age, in order to unmask a long-held fallacy we all lived in. Each literary school provides a different interpretation of his work (realist, naturalist, structuralist, herald of nouveau roman, formalist…). Rich heritage built up of his manuscripts, notes, commentaries, coupled with his genetic criticism, reveal (yet again!) new Flaubert’s faces. Flaubert’s life was dedicated to reaching an ideal of producing true and genuine literature, by fictionalising reality and mind meanderings, while the author remains de-personalised. Flaubert is an artist in the fullest sense of the word, with his literary aspirations summed up as follows: „An artist is like God when he creates – invisible and omniscient – he is felt everywhere and seen nowhere“.

Présence et signification des seuils dans Le jardin malade de Michel de Ghelderode

Author(s): Ana Sanduloviciu / Language(s): French Issue: 1 (35)/2022

Any literary space represents the passage through a threshold beyond which the reader discovers a different universe. Fantastic literature tries to stage a double passage, towards a mimetic, habitual universe, in a first stage, and in a second phase, towards a world whose paradigm and rules are difficult for the reader to accept. The passage to this new space-time is made by thresholds, thanks to the thresholds which conceal and enclose the supernatural thing/ presence/ space. In this article, we will try to analyze how the notion of threshold works in a story whose theme is linked to space, which one could interpret, at first, as fantastic. The way in which the hero relates to this space, which reflects his inner states, acquires a special meaning in the story of the Belgian writer. Being also the narrator of the events, he recounts in a diary his strange and inexplicable attraction for an old abandoned house, which he contemplates every day in his solitary walks. For reasons that are still obscure, but very powerful, this building exerts on him, since childhood, an attraction that becomes irresistible. The hero considers that he has the mission to discover the secrets of the house and its past, seen as dark, disturbing, and which somehow represents the past of the entire neighborhood. By becoming the owner of these places and settling there, the narrator experiences a miraculous incursion into the imagination relating to the house and the garden, about the past of which discovers several myths. The hero will thus experience delusional states of mind, on the border of madness, or will experience anxieties coming from a tragic, painful collective mind, which until then remained buried under the house and its garden. Like all the other characters in the Sortilèges collection, the narrator of Le jardin malade acts in a bizarre way: he is ready to sacrifice himself, struggling with this malevolent, deformed space, so that pacification may be restored and bad memories disappear forever. We can observe how each writer gives birth to a distinct, original imaginary space, in the story of the Belgian writer, this one pretending to lead the reader towards a fantastic, irrational universe which will show itself as false, will dissolve in the strange, so that in the end the normal world regains all its rights.

LE PERSONNAGE FEMININ DANS LE ROMAN SOUMISSION DE MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ : ENTRE STEREOTYPES, POLITISATION ET METADISCOURS CRITIQUE

Author(s): Bachir Hichem Boudjemàa,Charef Eddine Kaouadji / Language(s): French Issue: 37/2022

To associate stereotype and them of women in literature is not new. Add to this the relationship East-West as the background of a political-historical context marked by Islamist attacks in Europe and the return of religion as an issue is of particular interest. In this contribution, our purpose is to highlight how Submission of Michel Houellebecq as well as its ideological thinking are based on female issue to convey a refractory discourse which is able to provoke a critical meta-discourse in the name of political correctness thinking.

Miękki ton proroka

Author(s): Andrzej Draguła / Language(s): Polish Issue: 688/2022

Review of: Andrzej Draguła - Michel Houellebecq, anéantir, Flammarion, Paris 2022, 736 s.

Aux limites du récit. "Dans le puits" de Rachilde

Author(s): Anita Staroń / Language(s): French Issue: 17/2022

The article deals with the image of crisis as it is presented in Rachilde’s autobiographical text “Dans le puits”, written during the First World War. The book offers an insight into the author’s perception of the war, of the fear and of the impossibility of fiction during this time of traumatic reality. Rachilde, usually a prolific writer, who has always produced at least one fiction a year, finds herself silenced, unable to speak up about the cruelty of war. “Dans le puits” is her only longer publication of that time, an attempt to relate the facts through her subjectivity, in order to discover their true meaning.