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Dénes Tamás's review of "Az első világvége, amit együtt töltöttünk" (The First End of the World we Spent Together) by Zsuzsa Selyem.
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In this paper, we analyze the depictions of hell and the devil in Macedonian literature, in the 19th century. Notable works of moralizing-didactic character in Macedonian literature are found in the first half of the 19th century, in the texts of Kiril Pejcinovich, Theodosij Sinaitski and especially Joakim Krchovski. Moreover, depictions of hell and the devil are found in various manuscripts and the works of Grigor Prlicev, Jonche P. Snegar, Janaki Strezov, in the folklore art by Miladinovci brothers, Stefan Verkovic, the Molerovi brothers, in the remarkable stories by Marko Cepenkov and others. Their descriptions, mention, and understanding of the term hell refer primarily to fire, as dominant component of the Last Judgment, the place where sinners end up. It can also be concluded that literary texts are stricter in penalizing perversion and crime. Thus, in folklore art, the sale of the devil’s soul or its association with it leads to the torment of the body in hell. Yet, even under such conditions, there are examples in which the outcasts were delivered by fire or by the will of God in the cauldron. The literary records of Macedonian writers know no forgiveness and the possibility of deliverance: hell is dark, gloomy, and a hermetically closed place from which there is no way out. As it can be seen from their and other texts in question, the depictions of hell and the devil in the 19th century Macedonian literature primarily have a moralizing-didactic role, which through such plays was intended to deter believers from bad deeds and approaching ethical and moral behavior.
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In the modern society, where alienation and powerlessness feature prominently, Native American writers provide in their works ways of dealing with traumatic experiences from the more or less remote past and of reconstructing an identity that resolves the inner struggle most Native Americans face, due to their mixed heritage. Native American women writers’ autobiographies emphasize the need to rely and incorporate traditional Native American identity formation components, namely language and storytelling, the land and its surrounding elements, and cultural tribal heritage into the present, in order to recover lost values and perspectives that would provide healing and continuance. Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Linda Hogan create, in their autobiographies, a self composed of a multitude of voices, emphasizing the connection that exists between humans and the natural world, as well as the cultural knowledge that is transmitted from one generation to another. Apart from this interconnection between people and nature and ancestral heritage, Native American women writers also deal with another major identity formation component without which Native people could not reach a balanced sense of the self: that of language and storytelling. This article discusses ways of reconstructing identity in the autobiographical works by Erdrich, Marmon Silko and Hogan with a view to recovering cultural heritage.
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Fragments from Csaba Nánó's novel "Kertvárosi keringő" (Suburbian Waltz).
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