GUY DE MAUPASSANT’IN DAĞ OTELİ ÖYKÜSÜNDEKİ UZAMA GÖSTERGEBİLİMSEL BİR YAKLAŞIM

Author(s): Özge SÖNMEZ / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 08/2016

The story, from past to present, as a literary genre, has been the focus of attention of the reader, and object of research, linguists, semioticians. The common point of the products, which are examined according to many theories and research methods, is that they contain “character”, “space” and “time” items. In this study, it is aimed to present the function and place of “space” in the story “Mountain Hotel” written by the famous French writer Guy Maupassant in 1886. Space has an important role in terms of the meaning production process in the story. It also has an interaction with the other elements; “time” and “character”, in meaning process. While examining the element of space in the story, the relationship of this element with time of the story and characters, its place in this relationship, and its transformation are evaluated. Our point of departure here is the semiotic method which is based on the examination of the production of contrast. A.J. Greimas led to the theory of semiotics, who examines the literary products in the meaning process, in the surface structure, and in the deep structure. Meaning production by using the opposite structures will lay out the values of the element of “space” in a detailed manner which is the main point of our study. We think that it is necessary to use semiotics method, to see these values, what they mean in terms of holistic means, to resolve their relationship with each other and to classify them. Our claim is that, this item, considering its role in creating layers of meaning in the story, would be a kind of basis of researchers who examine the formation of meaning and relationships in literary texts.

AMANDİNE YA DA İKİ BAHÇE ÖYKÜSÜNDEKİ İYİ VAHŞİ MİTİNİN İZLERİ

Author(s): Rabia TOPAN / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 08/2016

Michel Tournier, known for the rich mythical references in his works, is an author who serves as a model for reinterpreting the myths. In his first tale book The Fetishist, he refers to several myths. As the theme of child holds a significant place in his literature, there are few children as heroes in this book. The hero of Amandine or the two gardens is a female child and the author presents the adventure of this girl, encountering with wild nature. He describes the modern society and wild nature from this female child’s perspective. While making these descriptions, the author firstly criticizes modern education and then truths that turn out to be wrong. Even if a child lives in aesthetically nice places, s/he feels happier in wild nature. In this work, the author advises to raise children as autonomous beings as it is explained in the noble savage myth and to remove obstacles in order to encourage them to find their heavens. Moreover, heaven can take place where there is no modern civilization. Amandine is a figure for all children who desire going away from artificial environments and who are happier in wild nature. Although Tournier explains the process of a child’s entrance into puberty, he also enlightens by showing how this process would be better by using noble savage mythemes. In this regard, this study aims to examine the noble savage in this tale in the light of myth criticism.

Oralité [1] et appropriation [2] du français dans la littérature africaine : le cas de Allah n’est pas obligé d’Ahmadou Kourouma et de La joie de vivre de Patrice Nganang.

Author(s): Ladislas Nzessé / Language(s): French Issue: 3/2010

Building on an ethnostylistics approach, this article aims at analyzing the ways in which African oral literature and self-appropriation of the French language by Africans has challenged and reconfigured the writing of Francophone African modern literature. Ahamadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé and Patrice Nganang’s La joie de vivre are scrutinized in this article to show that the above mentioned features – orature and appropriation of the French language- are paramount paradigms useful to assess the reception of the Francophone African fiction aesthetics, as well as that of the discourse which is thereby produced.

Marie Ndiaye – La femme qui tremble, la femme qui impose

Author(s): Dana Ştiubea / Language(s): French Issue: 4-I/2010

Marie Ndiaye is one of the important faces of the contemporary literature having been appreciated by the public and by the critics in the same time. Her last novel Trois femmes puissantes (Three strong women) has received the Goncourt award in 2009 and sold over more than 46.000 copies. This triptic that narrates pieces of 3 women from Senegal caught our attention because, besides the fact that it brings a new view over the feminism it gives us the opportunity to meditate over the concept of feminine writing. In this article we are aiming to analyse the way in which the woman's image is built in the aforementioned novel. For this we will first analyse the novel's structure then we will try to figure out if this is a ralist novel or a fiction.

Teologiczna interpretacja lęku w Dialogach karmelitanek G. Bernanosa

Author(s): Dariusz Jastrząb / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2011

G. Bernanos is one of those few novelists who has raised – in a catholic faith perspective – an issue of fear. His last writing Dialogues of the Carmelites is a drama about fear experienced by a Christian in face of both life and death. H. Urs von Balthasar’s theological depiction of the question contained in his book The Christian and Anxiety helps us in an interpretation of Bernanos’ literary work. Combining these two texts: literary and theological we can notice again a confirmation of the fact, that the culture finds its fulfillment and inspiration in religion and religion finds its locus thelogicus in literature.

Pikarski motivi u romanu Vatikanski podrumi Andréa Gidea

Author(s): Mato Nedić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 93-94/2018

Kada je velikan španjolske i svjetske književnosti Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1605. godine objavio prvi dio romana Bistri vitez don Quijote od Manche, vjerojatno nije slutio koliku je uslugu načinio tadašnjoj, a i budućoj književnosti s obzirom na to da će njegovo djelo postati prvi novovjekovni roman, da će ono najaviti potpuno nov pristup oblikovanju književnoga lika i radnje koju on pokreće. Dotadašnji viteški ideali, koji su usmjeravali život plemstva u srednjem vijeku, u novom vremenu, kada je građanstvo konačno ojačalo i izokrenulo stare vrijednosti, postaju predmetom poruge, kako u stvarnom životu, tako i u književnom tekstu.

L’idiolecte proustien. Basin de Guermantes

Author(s): Anca Lungu Gavril / Language(s): French Issue: 3-4/2017

This article presents the language characteristics of the duke of Guermantes in À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust. It analyses how certain words and groups of words keep repeating inside the duke’s speeches, thus making his portrait and illustrating Proust’s vision about the death of language through the use of collocations. We consider his idiolect interesting and relevant for our research on translating the Proustian idiolect into Romanian because his idiolect is so easy to be identified, through repetition and coherence of use, and because collocations are the most relevant lexical characteristic of the idiolect. Working with the large mass of phrases that Basin utters, we discovered his discourse is made of collocations, but also of freer expressions like stereotypes and sometimes a mixture of the two, that is a collocation personalized according to the context and to the interlocutor.

Décors et accessoires du luxe chez Balzac

Author(s): Doina Mihaela Popa / Language(s): French Issue: 3-4/2017

In the architecture of La Comédie Humaine, description occupies a privileged place, due to both its weight in the narrative economy, and its functions. The abundance of descriptive elements – setting and objects – is sometimes deemed as a stylistic defect or a form of contempt for fictional artistic rules: criticism of the time rejected this accumulation of heterogenous elements, this descriptive meticulousness, this baroque narrative lacework, which often invades the story. With Balzac, the luxury description, a character by its own, is the object of a double endeavour, both metaphorical and psychological.

Otadžbina „Mediteran“

Author(s): Gabriel Audisio / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 55.1/1999

Short story „Mediteran“ by Gabriel Audisio.

FRANSIZ BESTECİ MAURICE RAVEL’İN KURMACA VE GERÇEKLİK ARASINDA GİDİP GELEN YAŞAM ÖYKÜSÜ: JEAN ECHENOZ'UN RAVEL'İ

Author(s): Tülin Kartal Güngör / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 11/2018

Biography has been one of the effective narrative instruments in terms of its applicability to different kinds of arts such as cinema, theater and both being a narrative type throughout the history of art and literature. However, in the postmodern era where the reality of many concepts such as history, art and even science is questioned, it can be seen that the biography has evolved into an indefinite field that moves between reality and fiction. In his works, Jean Echenoz, a master of contemporary French literature, often reveals a hybrid genre by dissolving genres such as crime, adventure and black novels in a single pot, leads from the life of the famous composer Maurice Ravel to a fictional life story with the novel Ravel. In Echenoz's novel, there are many elements about the life of musician Ravel. Many features associated with Ravel's personality are reflected in the novel. For example, Ravel's sleeplessness, excessive detail, attention to his clothes, travels to overseas countries, his relationship with Stravinsky, unfortunate traffic accidents and disturbances can be counted. Although the author uses many elements of Ravel's life, it should be noted that this work has many fictional features. In this work, we will try to show how the author reflects the famous composer Maurice Ravel and shows a fiction work by preserving the fine line between reality and fiction. It will also show how the author integrates the novel's structure with the personality traits of the novel hero.

Un nouveau regard sur la trahison de Judas au XIIe siècle: Li Romanz de Dieu et de sa Mere d’Herman de Valenciennes

Author(s): Hélène Averseng / Language(s): French Issue: 21/2018

As far as we know, Li Romanz de Dieu et de sa Mere, written in the 12th century by Herman de Valenciennes, is the first abridged version of the Old French Bible. We believe that it is worth giving particular attention to the way Judas is represented here. Not only a biblical figure is interestingly turned into a literary figure, but new ideas on the fate of the character expressed in the text reveal a significant change in the interpretation of the biblical episode. Herman de Valenciennes builds Judas’ betrayal of Jesus on ambiguity that is entailed by hesitating on the demonization of the character, but also by the evolution and the hybridization of the literary devices. Judas’ treason, his repentance and suicide appear in a new light, which means reinterpreting the Scriptures and reviving the exegetical tradition.

K motívu ženstva v poézii Charlesa Baudelaira

Author(s): Katarína Hrabčáková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 17-18/2014

The paper deals with the motif of womanhood in the poetics of Charles Baudelaire. The aim of the work is to demonstrate the closer relations of the poetry of this author by choosing of “unproblematicˮ aspect of his writing. The motif is closely related with the author´s understanding of beauty and nature and is determined by his view of aesthetic and poetics. In the work we try to point out to the different images of the motif of womanhood and to its contradictory meanings. By exploring of female lyrical subject and the relationship between man and woman in Baudelaire´s poems we identify characteristic features of his poetry.

Cesta do hlbín noci a jej aktualizovaný prepis

Author(s): Zuzana Malinovská / Language(s): Slovak,French Issue: 19-20/2014

The present study draws upon well-known French theories of intertextuality, hypertextuality and transtextuality. It shows that the novel Allah Is Not Obliged (2000) by Ahmadou Kourouma, one of the best-known Francophone (also referred to as world literature in French) authors from the Ivory Coast, is a rewriting or an updated “Africanized“ transposition of the iconic 20th century French novel written by L.-F. Céline, Journey to the End of the Night (1932). Despite 70 years that separate the publishing of the novels, striking similarities exist between them. Brief introduction of the different contexts in which the novels originated is followed by the presentation of Kourouma’s ambivalent relation to the French language. The affinities between the novels are examined on multiple levels. Personal narrators share the attitude towards their being in the world and they share the need to express themselves in an original way.

Рецепција романа "Покоравање" Мишела Уелбека: невидљивост побеђеног универзитета

Author(s): Željko Milanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 161/2017

The reception of the novel Submission by Michel Houellebecq began even before its publication and was further stimulated by the terror attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine. Following this macabre event, it naturally pervaded from European into Serbian mass media. The media’s perception of the novel was then seamlessly perpetuated in the critical reviews. The majority of these reviews of Houellebecq’s novel focus on the bond between politics and religion, seeing that this interaction is – due to its controversy – an inexhaustible source of interest for mass media. Yet, in his visions of the near future, Houellebecq foretells a further entrenchment of the existing system rather than its radical negation or transformation,as pointed out throughout the novel, by the author himself.

Бодлеров јубилеј у Паризу

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 162/2017

Dvojnost u Mallarméovoj eklogi Faunovo poslijepodne (L'après-midi d'un faune)

Author(s): Frano Vrančić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 11/2014

Myths have always been treated in French literature so they remain a source of poetic inspiration in the nineteenth century. However, whenever a figure of faun is mentioned, Stephane Mallarmé‘s poem The Afternoon of the Faun (L’Après midi d’un faune) comes under the spotlight. Namely, this very mythical figure fills him with a strange admiration. The faun is in every respect a hybrid being especially from a physical point of view due to its paws and horns as well as from spiritual viewpoint, for it hunts after nymphs and is a representative of desire. Furthermore, the faun owns a flute and hence belongs to the art. Moreover, he represents a split between sexual appetite and the art. A beast inside the faun boosts his eroticism whereas the flute draws him towards art. At the same time, it is attracted by the art as well as erotic instincts i.e. by the nymph and a poetry or music. In addition, duality can be seen not only in poem‘s scenery or nymphs but also in the faun‘s hesitation between two worlds and two realities as well as in literary and meta poetic ideas the poem conveys. Eventually, the faun represents a kind of living synthesis of two previously mentioned poles. This synthesis concerns all levels of duality i.e. the man and the beast, the soul and the body. The faun chosen by Mallarmé reconciles opposite poles bringing peace and harmony to a human being.

Filomela, słowik i poeta. O Naruszewiczowskim przekładzie ody Jeana‑Baptiste’a Rousseau

Author(s): Roman Dąbrowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

The article is devoted to the analysis of the poem by Adam Naruszewicz Duma do słowika that is the translation of the ode by Jean‑Baptise Rousseau, A Philomele. The poem’s narrative order is marked out by the comparison of the two texts; and all that is done to show the way Polish poet rendered the original text. In the article particular attention is paid to the differences between fragments of the French work and Polish Duma do słowika. But above all, the analysis brings out the fact that Naruszewicz’s style was quite distinct, and the relation of lyrical I to the recipient of the utterance is slightly different from that in the Rousseau’s poem, which is particularly noticeable in the ending passage of the Polish work. Important features of the Naruszewicz‑as‑a‑translator’s technique are also discussed.

Zezwierzęcenie świata ludzi. Nosorożec Eugène’a Ionesco

Author(s): Anna Wolska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

The article presents the originality and the timeless meaning of the 1959 Eugène Ionesco play, Rhinoceros which is situated, despite its unambiguous ‘animal’ parable, within the Theatre of the Absurd. In the perspective of the author of the article it is not only Ionesco’s protest against fascism conditioned by the political circumstances which is significant in particular time but the work portraying mechanisms of influence on society, which appears as ‘the masses’, the whole of the society, devoid of any deeper connection with ethical and moral values of humanistic culture, common to all authoritarian ideologies. Among others, the article refers to opinions of scholars of drama and theatre critics on the evolution of Ionesco’s dramatic works and such sociological‑cultural and literary contexts as: 1) José Ortega y Gasset’s thoughts on brutal ‘direct action’ applied to the masses by force factors and on ‘fear of touch’ felt by an individual defending the values of humanistic culture, included in The Revolt of the Masses; 2) plays by Ionesco in which the theme of metamorphosis is important; 3) other works of the Theatre of the Absurd of similar meaning but using different artistic means, Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe in particular.

Promocja Powieści moralnych Jean‑Françoisa Marmontela

Author(s): Danuta Hombek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

The present article discusses in chronological order various forms of promoting Powieści moralne by Jean‑François Marmontel. Since the seventies of the 18th century, it was well‑known French‑Varsovian publisher and bookseller Piotr Dufour who undertook to print and promote the work concerned. However, his attempts to arouse the interest in the publication among the readers proved, in fact, not much successful. Powieści moralne shared a similar fate of many other publications of the Enlightenment period – they were laying useless at the booksellers yet for many years after being published.

Posągi jako źródła nowej epistemologii (przypadek Michela Serresa)

Author(s): Katarzyna Trzeciak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2017

The article attempts to read the metaphor of the statue in Michel Serres’ philosophical discourse. Sculpture understood in the broad sense, as Serres proposes in Statues: The Second Book of Foundations, enables him to trace a whole array of concepts in western thought, and to make the statue itself a model of new cognition, extending beyond binary oppositions and open to unpredictability and a lack of continuity. For Serres a statue also offers the possibility to cross the boundaries of science and the humanities, and consequently to become, at the same time, both a critical and utopian figure.