The Accidental Theme: Jonathan Coe, The Accidental Woman

Author(s): Lidia Vianu / Language(s): English Issue: 1 (07)/2008

Peut-être Jonathan Coe échappe à l’étiquette Desperado (pour ne plus utiliser le mot «postmoderniste») par sa technique romanesque, mais il est né et il a grandi ayant la peur distopique de tous les auteurs Desperado – que l’Apocalypse vienne. Même si les priorités narratives de Coe n’ont rien de commun avec le récit conventionnel, avec le modèle chronologique classique (passé-présent-futur), son but principal est de plaire au lecteur. S’il a quelque chose à dire – et il nous communique toujours l’effroi que l’espèce disparaisse – alors sans doute il va trouver ses outils. Dans son premier roman, The Accidental Woman, lui a semblé que le roman «bavard» est la voie à suivre. Peut-être ne pas la seule voie, peut-être ni même une nouvelle voie (même si il y a peu de personnes qui l’ont abordée si passionnément), mais certainement Coe suit cette voie à l’intention ferme de quitter la littérature Desperado et de découvrir une littérature non-nommée encore, non-analysée et à peine perçue. Jonathan Coe a un seul Dieu : le changement.

Problematica timpului în Divanul. Cele şapte vârste şi „tâmplările” fiinţei

Author(s): Emanuela Ilie / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1 (07)/2008

Livre de sagesse, produit de la rencontre de Cantemir avec les grands livres de la culture universelle, le Divan s’extrait la sève d’une méditation explicite sur le raport de l’ humanité avec le temps aperçu par le miroir révélateur du dialogue intertextuel. Le temps humain se décompose ainsi en sept âges, conformément à une théorie humaniste, axée sur les interprétations médievales sur les sousdivisions temporelles. Ce sont sept escaliers complémentaires de la formation du soi, de l’accomplissement de l’être en raport fondamental au monde et au sur-monde. Il leur correspond aussi quelques « circomstances » comme la maladie, l’esclavage ou la pauvresse qui, dans le contexte malheureux de la vie de Cantemir, deviennent cercles de la souffrance nécessaire. La fin du Divan formule en termes explicits cette pédagogie de la purification par la douleur. La 85-ième et dernière glave constitue, d’ailleurs, le noyau de l’antropologie cantémirienne, construite sur l’invitation à un modus vivendi classique, stoique. Dans un monde des apparences, la seule sollution de l’humain de survivre, de résister au temps-ennemi et de le transformer en allié reste la paix – avec soi-même, avec les autres et avec Dieu. Ces trois types de paix conturent la triple modalité de conserver l’identité individuelle par le raport nécessaire à l’altérité qui perfecte l’être, en prolongeant aussi le temps humain en temps de la sacralité.

L’Eden biblique et l’Utopie de Thomas More

Author(s): Corin Braga / Language(s): French Issue: 1 (07)/2008

Utopias are the inheritors of the “semantic basin” constituted by the corpus of initiation voyages of Late Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. Classical utopian authors, from the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, borrowed from the medieval myth of the Terrestrial Paradise both the imaginary location of the Garden of Eden and the rich symbolical material concerning the marvelous flora and fauna, as well as the monstrous human races that inhabited the fabulous countries of Asia. Starting with the discoveries of the Renaissance, the “marvels of the East” were transferred to the West, so that the newly found continent became the New Indies. Christopher Columbus even thought that South America was literally the Garden of Eden. When Thomas More searched a location for his Utopia, he situated it on the precise spot of the otherwise very vague world map where Columbus placed the Terrestrial Paradise. This implies that the humanist City of Man was the inheritor of the Christian Garden of God.

„Wer mit ich selbst einig ist, ist es mit anderen“ (Titu Maiorescu). Zielsetzungen und Wegmarken von Professor Dan Mănucă

Author(s): Horst Fassel / Language(s): German Issue: 1 (07)/2008

On se propose de poursuivre l’évolution professionelle de l’historien et du critique littéraire Dan Mănucă. On constate le caractère systématique de l’ensemble de son activité scientifique, dont on peut établir trois directions générales: 1. La découverte et le déchiffrement des nouvelles sources pour l’historiographie littéraire roumaine. 2. Établir des relations entre l’évolution de la littérature roumaine et celle européenne. 3. La création d’un fondement de dates pour la culture et la littérature roumaine et la diffusion des informations pour les institutions culturelles. 1. Le point central de sa recherche a été la littérature de la Moldavie, spécialement celle d’environnement de la Société « Junimea », ainsi qu’une nouvelle interpretation de la prose classique roumaine (Sadoveanu, Rebreanu, Brătescu-Voineşti). On ajoute sa preoccupation constante pour l’analyse des procès et des traditions littéraires roumains. Un intérêt particulier fut accordé à l’exactitude et à l’étude minutieuse dans la recherche de l’historiographie littéraire. Le résultat a été le volumineux Dictionnaire de la littérature roumaine, que Dan Mănucă coordonna pendant plusieurs années. 2. L’interprétation des modèles du dialogue littéraire est souvent présent dans les travaux de Dan Mănucă. Très bon connaisseur de la littérature française, allemande, anglaise, il à eu la capacité d’encadrer la littérature roumaine dans l’évolution littéraire européenne. 3. Dan Mănucă a cultivé l’esprit de travail en equipe. À l’Institut dont il est Directeur depuis des années, on a accumulé des matériaux au delà de la nécessité du Dictionnaire, qui peuvent et pourront être utiliser par des étudiants et des chercheurs qui en ont besoin. Comme professeur, Dan Mănucă a soutenu la popularisation de ce fond important de dates littéraires.

プーシキンの『コーカサスの捕虜』再考

Author(s): Masanori Goto / Language(s): Japanese Issue: 47/2000

Miért Berlin ? (esszé)

Author(s): Imre Kertész / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2006

Why Berlin? It is the question posed by our Nobel-prize winning writer Imre Kertész, who himself provides an answer to this paradoxical question: why, as a one-time inmate of Auschwitz and the author of a universal novel about the Holocaust, did he choose to live in Berlin. With this choice he opted for a contemporary Germany able to face its role in the Holocaust, rather than Hungary where such courage is painfully lacking. This choice influences both our daily existence and today´s other choices.

Художественное своеобразие комедии А. Сарамоновича «Тестостерон»

Author(s): Elena Sergeevna Sedova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2 (3)/2012

The article is devoted to the analysis of the comedy Testosteron by A. Saramonowicz, in which the author reflects on the eternal problem of gender relations. It focuses on characters, conflicts and composition, represented in the comedy as a series of flashbacks. Such a composition emphasizes circularity, repetition of situations in different characters’ lives and moreover cyclicity of life itself.

Лингвистический портрет Польши в текстах Н.С. Гумилёва

Author(s): Viktoria Sasina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2 (3)/2012

The article is devoted to the analysis of the linguistic image of Poland in N. Gumilev’s Notes of the cavalryman and his metapoetics. The author describes features of Gumilev’s geopoetic image of Poland during the World War I.

ARHIV I OSTAVŠTINA TOMASA MANA U CIRIHU

Author(s): Bisera Suljić-Boškailo / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 08/2009

Ovaj rad ukratko predstavlja ciriški Arhiv i ostavštinu nobelovaca Tomasa Mana, jedne od najkontraverznijih pojava njemačke književnosti i kulture 20. stoljeća, a poslije Getea i najznačajnijijeg njemačkog pisca koji je na svjetskoj književnoj mapi, zbog svog specifičnog stila pisanja bivao uvijek u žiži interesiranja, a danas, poslije više od jednog stoljeća od njegova osvajanja književnog Olimpa, zanimanje za njegova djela u Njemačkoj i šire doživljava posebno kulminaciju dosta zahvaljujući ovom Arhivu koji se nalazi u Cirihu i koji svojim neprocjenljivim bogastvom koje čuva i daje dostupnim književnim naučnicima pokreće književnost i književnu kritiku da analizom djela i stvaralačkog procesa ovoga pisca, dobija jednu posve novu dimenziju intrerpretacije književnog ploda.

KOLONIJALNE PERSPEKTIVE U KIPLINGOM DJELU KNJIGI O DŽUNGLI

Author(s): Amela Lukač-Zoranić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 08/2009

U svojoj zbirci sastavljenoj od petnaest pripovedaka, koje je napisao za vreme boravka u Americi u dva dela, Knjiga o džungli (The Jungle Books, 1894-95), Kipling ne samo da je uspeo da opiše životinjski svet već je uspeo da stvori carstvo sa animiranim životinjama. Sve životinje u njegovim pričama imaju ljudske osobine. One se ponašaju kao ljudi, imaju svoje sopstvene duše i takođe poštuju istu hijerarhiju moći kao što je slučaj i sa ljudskim društvom. Pored toga, odnosi među životinjama u ovom delu mogu se shvatiti kao alegorijska slika odnosa u Britanskom društvu. Ono što Kipling jasno ističe je da samo čovek može biti vladar bilo ljudskog bilo životinjskog društva, tako da je i čovečije mladunče Mogli jedini pravi vladar u tom društvu sa očima koje ulivaju strah svim ostalilm stanovnicima džungle.

Przechadzki po fantastycznym Poznaniu

Author(s): Tomasz Ewertowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2012

This article presents the work of three authors of fantasy fiction from Poznań: Michał Protasiuk, Maciej Guzek, and Wojciech Szyda. The main topic discussed is their various visions of Poznań: from the phantasmagorian Po’sen and dark Posenstadt of Szyda’s stories, to the futuristic vision of the city in Protasiuk’s Celebration of the Revolution, and Poznań as a global centre for the magic industry in Guzek’s stories.

Podskórny Poznań: anatomia

Author(s): Kira Pietrek,Szczepan Kopyt,Adam Kaczanowski,Dariusz Sośnicki,Edward Pasewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2012

Kaczanowski: "Rusa, deska przy Browarze"; Rolando: "Cerussa"; Pietrek: "co słychać na placu Kolegiackim"; Kopyt: "Lekkoatletyka jeżycka"; Pasewicz: "Lamed na kocich łbach"; Sośnicki: "W przyszłość"

Nostalgia for a Childhood Without: Implications of the Adult Gaze on Childhood and Young Adult Sexuality

Author(s): Kristina Lareau / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2012

This paper examines the adult gaze on children’s literature through the lens of Eric Tribunella’s article “From Kiddie Lit to Kiddie Porn” (2008) which explores the implications of child sexuality through an examination of Chris Kent’s parodies of The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne and Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes. Introducing Kincaid’s term ‘child-loving,’ I explore the implications of the types of ‘child-loving’ as they are examined in children’s and young adult literature. This paper uses Nothing by Janne Teller, Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers, and Patricia McCormick’s Sold to determine how an adult gaze lands upon childhood sexuality that is averse to the constructed culture of childhood innocence and asexuality, and where then the gaze is averted, implicated or nostalgic. I reference Laura Mulvey (1999) and Clifford Manlove (2007) as my basis for the analysis of the gaze as I aim to define levels of ‘child-loving’ and nostalgic idealizations as an adult gaze complicates desire for the child, innocence, and the past.

Okrugli stol "Čitanjem do pismenosti"

Author(s): Corinna Jerkin / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/2012

A report on the Round Table with the topic Through Reading to Literacy held in Zagreb, Croatia on 8 September 2012.

Druga godišnja skupština Hrvatske udruge istraživača dječje književnosti (HIDK)

Author(s): Sanja Lovrić Kralj / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/2012

A report on the The Second Annual Meeting of the Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature held in Rijeka, Croatia, May 2012.

Kvadratura ispričanoga kruga

Author(s): Marina Protrka Štimec / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/2012

A review of Hameršak, Marijana's book (2011) Pričalice: o povijesti djetinjstva i bajke [Tellers: On the History of Childhood and Fairy Tales].

Kitolika bajka u interdisciplinarnoj teorijskoj mreži

Author(s): Nada Kujundžić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/2012

A review ofJack Zipes' book "The Irresistable Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre" (2012).

Balogovo blago: pjesništvo Zvonimira Baloga

Author(s): Marica Perić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/2012

This paper aims to mark the occasion of the 80th birthday of Zvonimir Balog, one of the greatest Croatian children’s poets, and to describe his immense contribution to Croatian children’s literature. His Selected Works, published in 2007, make his work more widely available not only to the general reader, but also to scholars, thus preparing the way for a comprehensive critical evaluation. As the award-winning author of more than seventy books for children and adults, an essayist, novelist, playwright, illustrator, and editor of children’s magazines, he takes a special place in Croatian culture. This paper also shows how Zvonimir Balog creates a nonsense grammar of his own, adopts an original approach to picture poetry, and engages in passionate wordplay, becoming equally appealing to adults and children. Literary critics are particularly interested in his language and style. His unique expression is one of the reasons why Zvonimir Balog is considered to belong to the founders of contemporary Croatian children’s poetry.

Kulturološka predodžba djetinjstva u dječjem romanu

Author(s): Sanja Vrcić Mataija / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/2012

A review of Dubravka Zima's book "Kraći ljudi: povijest dječjeg lika u hrvatskom dječjem romanu" [Shorter People: The History of Child Characters in Croatian Children’s Novels](2011).

Crossing Boundaries: Translations and Migrations – 33rd IBBY International Congress, London, United Kingdom, 23-26 August 2012

Author(s): Janelle B. Mathis / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2012

A report on the 33rd IBBY International Congress held in London, UK, August 2012.