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The second half of the article dedicated to Mircea Cartarescu introduces to the reader the Post modern endeavors of Cărtărescu's generation and the volume of poems "Verses with Diamonds", published during Ceauşescu's regime which comprises poems signed by four of the members of The Monday Literary Cercle". (Cărtărescu, Coşovei, Iaru and Strătan)
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Elvira Sorohan presents this volume of critics written by G. Ibrăileanu first published in 1909 then re edited in 1922 focusing on one of its chapters that refers to foreign influences and critical spirit towards these influences in Romanian culture from the 17th to the 19th century.
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The article is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Rein Kruus (1957–1992), graduate of the University of Tartu, scholar of Estonian-Russian literary and cultural relations, specialist of Igor Severyanin. Although his period of active writing lasted less than a dozen years, his list of publications includes 269 items in English, German, Latvian, Estonian, and Russian. The main attention of R. Kruus as a Slavist was turned to Russian literature created in Estonia. In his opinion those texts were part of neither Estonian nor foreign literature, being rather a bridge between Estonian and Russian literatures. Many of the local authors writing in Russian were, after all, Estonian citizens with a mixed Russian-Estonian background. Several of them were also translators of Estonian literature into Russian. R. Kruus was most attracted to the texts, poetry in particular, written in the 1920s and 1930s, which had received relatively less of researcher attention. His most valuable contribution to Russistics consists of 25 writings discussing Igor Severyanin, the best known Russian poet of pre-war Estonia. Thus, R. Kruus merits being recognized not as just a specialist of Russian literature in Estonia but rather as an outstanding Estonian Slavist.
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A. H. Tammsaare believed that sooner or later every new religion would degenerate into superstition, thus causing harm. This is why the most humane attitude, in his opinion, involved dismissal of religiousness from the start. That made Tammsaare prefer the naturalist worldview (despite its deficiencies), which had dominated European thought since the 19th century. Dostoyevsky, however, saw the greatest evil in lack of faith. That was the woe, he believed, afflicting Western Europe, where lack of money was the only "sin" recognized. Dostoyevsky's only hope was that Greek Orthodoxy, predominating in Russia, where Christianity had, in his opinion, retained its genuine integrity, would triumph over Europe and amend the otherwise hopeless situation. Consequently, what one of the two authors considered the ultimate affliction was regarded as a source of hope by the other. And yet Tammsaare was convinced that Dostoyevsky belonged to the best of authors, albeit not beyond belles lettres. The Slavophilic views that Dostoyevsky adhered to were, however, not appraised by Tammsaare. The ultimate aim of the article is to explicate the most obvious difference between Orthodoxy and naturalism.
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Review about the book of the writer László Krasznahorkai and the painter Max Neumann "Állatvanbent" (Animal inside).
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Professional analyses revealed that there is close relationship between the doctor’s soul, temperament, interests and the writer’s psychology. There are some talents which belong to both groups, for instance the ability to diagnose, empathy, (self)critical thinking and to draw conclusion from details. Hungarian doctor and writer Géza Csáth, László Németh, or the dentist, school doctor and historian Béla Jancsó all had the qualities mentioned above.
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LAUČEK, Anton. Schematická reportáž Ferdinanda Gabaja. Ružomberok: TESFO, 2008, 91 s.
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One is committed to deny the temptation of trying to make a reconstruction while reading ancient literature. Such a reconstruction is impossible. The role of the contemporary reader comes up for recreating the writings. This process is based on the absorption and understanding of the text as a part of some horizons of expectations reflecting the author’s living epoch. Petrus Royzius is a creator of the 16th c. Latin poetry in Lithuania. He wrote his texts being in fact alien to the things he spoke about. Thus we can see the image of Sarmatia (it corresponds to Poland and Lithuania in Royzius’ poetry) from the outside, noticing those things and characters which hardly would have been noticed by native writers.Royzius’ poetry is important because of many authentic historical details.
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Based on Gadammer, Heidegger and Nietzsche, the author is analyzing the trends in contemporary Serbian poetry, emphasizing its aesthetic downfall, self-centeredness and localization. The author is particularly emphasizing recent strive to institutionalize those tendencies through new anthology that would further this erosion through re-evaluation through negative re-evaluation of the poetic legacy of the twentieth century. This tendency is illustrated with the examples from contemporary Serbian poetics.
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• Eugenia Bojoga despre ”Veşmântul fifi inţei noastre” – 20 de ani de la apariţie • Poezie de Vasile Romanciuc şi Vasile Gârneţ • Cultura română în Polonia – interviu cu Dorian Branea, director ICR din Varşovia • Proză de Vladimir Beşleagă, Grigore Chiper şi Nicolae Spătaru • „Made in Est”, o piesă de Constantin Cheianu la Teatrul Naţional Iaşi - cronică de Călin Ciobotari • „Surâsul lui Bruno Schulz”, eseu de Larisa Turea
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The author reviews some name of magazines and newspapers active in today's Romania journalistic panorama, all claming to inherit in addition to the famous names they have taken, the literary and social value of the great names from beginnings of Romanian journalism of the 19th century. Famous names of the interwar period such as: "The Trend", "The Truth" and the 19 century ones "The Romanian Courier", "The Bee" are now to be found at the reader's disposal but the legacy of the old titles in respect of quality of writing is rather questionable.
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Saşa Pană was an outstanding editor, writer and poet of the Romanian vanguard in the interwar period. His diary which is an excellent source of information about other poets and writers of the time, (the figure of Geo Bogza, a close friend of Saşa Pană), is given as an example, Pană's struggle as an editor, various aspects of his life as well as and his late activity as a left movement intellectual are some of the topics of this article signed by Ioana Pârvulescu.
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The author begins the article with the affirmation the in the “Golden Era” there were published quite a few good books in the “spiritual desert” of Romania, dominated by the restriction to publicly say what you thought – and he gives a few reasons why the decision makers in this area made this choice. After 1989, the “thirsty public” waited for the writers to say what they had to say and write. This happened regarding the foreign authors, lots of works from various domains were published. The author makes an analysis of what happened concerning the Romanian belletristic after 1989.
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“Zsuzsa Selyem regards her profession as a commitment aiming its questions at the territory of incomprehensible things… This special kind of agnosticism is rooted in the philosophy of religion and theology; deconstruction and hermeneutics is probably read in the light of this originally religious agnosticism.” Gyöngyi Mikola thoroughly criticizes Selyem’s collection of studies: in the present exciting and sharp writing she confronts her own sceptical-pragmatical critical attitude with her younger colleague’s worldview.
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“…we are faced with the question in what sense the author uses the term revision.” Péter Esterházy’s Javított kiadás (Revised Edition) was the greatest sensation in Hungarian literature in the year 2002. In this volume the writer reckons with his father’s past as an informer. Béla Bacsó analyses the work in its relation with the earlier published opus magnum, Harmonia Caelestis.
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“The key-word of András Forgách’s aesthetics is paradox.” The review focuses on Forgách’s collection of essays on literature, with special attention to the author’s reading of Ottlik and analyses of diaries.
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