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БРАЌАТА МИЛАДИНОВЦИ КРИЛА НА МАКЕДОНСКАТА КУЛТУРНА И НАЦИОНАЛНА ПРЕРОДБА

Author(s): Valentina Mironska Hristovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 79/2022

The reason for this text is the celebration of the 160th anniversary of the death of the Miladinovci brothers, of Dimitar - father of the Macedonian revival, and of Konstantin - founder of Macedonian artistic poetry. The text follows their overall activities, as well as some of the activities of their brother Nahum, who was the first melographer of Macedonian folk songs. Their activities include: teaching, patronage of the students, diplomatic, collecting, affirmation of the Macedonian language, fight against Hellenism and fight for the renewal of the Ohrid Archbishopric, journalistic, artistic activities. The Miladinovci brothers conceived and gave strength to the Macedonian cultural and national revival, due to which they became victims of the great territorial policy. In this context, the text follows the abolition of the Orthodox Churches in the Balkans by the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the emergence of the union with the Roman Catholic Church in Macedonia and Bulgaria, as well as the connection of Bulgaria with Croatia. The sacrifice of the Miladinovci brothers did not hinder the realization of their work because it was continued by their followers.

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„КНИГАТА-КАКО-СВЕТ“: РОМАНЕСКНИТЕ ОНТОСТРАТЕГИИ НА МИТКО МАЏУНКОВ

Author(s): Marija Gjorgjieva Dimova / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 13/2022

Starting from the theoretical premises for the ontological dominant of postmodernist prose, the text aims to interpret the manifestations of this dominant in the Mitko Madzhunkov's novels: Времето на ирвасите, Птиците од ланските гнезда и Правта на библиотеките. The interpretive focus is placed on two levels: first, on the interpretation of the repertoire of ontological themes that are articulated in the novels, mainly related to the games between the texts and the worlds projected in them; second, on the interpretation of the repertoire of procedures (metafictional and intertextual) by which those themes are placed in the foreground in the novels.

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НЕПОЗНАТА ПЕСНА И ЕСЕИ ВО РАКОПИС НА АНАСТАСИЈА МИЛОШОВА ОД 1895 И 1896 ГОДИНА

Author(s): Slavčo Koviloski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 13/2022

In this paper we refer to a part of the newly found manuscript archive of the young author Anastasia Miloshova. It consists of an untitled poem written on a separate sheet and four essays written in an unpaged notebook without covers. The poem and essays were written during Miloshova's schooling in Thessaloniki, in the period 1895-1896. The song is a product of the romantic perceptions of the author and it deals with the meaning and the need for an ideal. The four prose works deal with different topics related to rural life, the birth of Jesus Christ, the purity and the duties that parents and children have in their daily lives. Anastasia Miloshova's works are the first registered Macedonian essays and poems in manuscript, which increases the number of works by Macedonian women in the 19th century.

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MAKEDON ATASÖZLERİ VE BİLMECELERİNDE İSTANBUL ALGISI

Author(s): Filiz Mehmetoğlu / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 13/2022

Macedonian proverbs and riddles which contain the city of Istanbul are excerpted from folk tales as cultural works and translated into Turkish. In addition, although in some of these proverbs the city of Istanbul is not mentioned at all, the name of the city of Istanbul is still present in the stories from which the proverbs are derived. The folk tales in which these proverbs were found, which are the subject of our research, have been translated into Turkish and are included in this paper. The purpose of this study is to understand the perception of the Macedonian people about the city of Istanbul through the mediation of Macedonian folk proverbs and riddles.

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ПРИВАТНИ ЗАПИСИ НА ЖИВКО ЧИНГО

Author(s): Ranko Mladenoski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 13/2022

This paper is an overview of the book “Chingo’s Last Letter” edited by Vlado Mukovski and published by the publishing house “Muza” in December 2021. The book contains three private records by Zhivko Chingo, published for the first time: Chingo’s letter to his parents written in 1972 in Melbourne, Chingo’s letter to his nephew Vlado Mukovski written in 1986 and several undated notes written probably as a preparation for an interview. Chingo’s personal published records are followed by explanations, comments and memories of the editor Vlado Mukovski and Ana Mukoska as well. In the conclusion of this overview it is emphasized that the book “Chingo’s Last Letter” is a significant publication for Macedonian literary historiography as through this publication we are introduced to the great Macedonian author Zhivko Chingo from another, private perspective.

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Македонската книжевност во научниот и во преведувачкиот опус на словачкиот славист Јан Јанкович (1943 – 2021)

Author(s): Zvonko Taneski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 02/2022

In this contribution, we focus on problematic of scientific and translation interest of famous Slovak Slavist Ján Jankovič about Macedonian literature and culture in his professional life. It remains for us to objectively confirm that the reading of the translations of Acad. Ján Jankovič on authors and works of Macedonian literature are a real treat for all true admirers and lovers of literature in Slovakia. His words are fluid, overflowing, the reader is not confused or hindered by any incomprehensible or spatially foreign elements. The ability to capture the spoken form of the language, the sense of stylistic nuances and a huge dose of creativity – these are just some of the characteristics of the unconventional personality of translators of the rank of Ján Jankovič, who, in addition to translating and addressing the issues of poetry translation, prose and drama were simultaneously and successfully dedicated to scientific activity. Now that Ján Jankovič is no longer with us and his scientific and translational oeuvre is closed, it remains for us to remember with respect and admiration his numerous scientific and translational feats, and not to forget to once again express our heartfelt gratitude for his overall engagement in the presentation of Macedonian literature in the Slovak cultural space.

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The ritual of sacrifice and the economy of violence

Author(s): Katica Kulavkova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Mythical and historical memory are two sides of the same reality. Folk legends remind us that there are great tragedies behind great epic heroes and mythic deeds/images. Hidden behind the monumental cultural, literary and artistic legacy lies shocking ritual violence with its deep logos. Sacred and profane violence have many variants and should thus be interpreted with great attention (semantic, semiotic, historical, cultural). The question of the economy of violence is of prime interest because of the wide array of personifications of violence: necessary, moderate, excessive, limitless, absolute, intentional and unintentional. The figure of the scapegoat changes, but not its role in the ritual of violence. The mythical memory of the Macedonians is sensitive and has the capacity to mystify and demystify historical stories. The Macedonian oral literature has preserved numerous legends, stories and poems which evoke the motif of sacrifice, both in its archaic ritualistic form (walling up a live woman in the foundations of bridges) and in its feudal historic forms of social and cultural politics. The focus of this paper will be the legend of King Marko (1335–1395) written down by Marko Cepenkov (1829–1920), and some other literary examples. It will also make a basic classification of violence (ritualistic, necessary, unnecessary and absolute).

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ANALYSE COMPAREE DE DEUX VERSIONS DU MOTIF DE LA FEMME EMMUREE : « LE MONASTERE D’ARDJES » (VERSION ROUMAINE) ET « LA VIERGE EMMUREE VIVANTE » (VERSION MACEDONIENNE)

Author(s): Elisa Clolot / Language(s): French Issue: 01/2023

The text we propose presents an attempt at a comparative analysis of a Romanian version and a Macedonian version of the folklore motif of the walled-in woman. In the first part of our analysis, we observe the different presentations of the very figure of the woman. The differences on this point are quite significant. In both cases, we know the identity of the woman but in a different way. In the second part, we analyzе the reason and the moment of the death of young women. Indeed, they also differ enormously, which greatly changes the moral of the story and the effect on the reader or the one who listens to the song. In the third part, we are interested in the characters of master Manol and the masons.

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The Portrayal of the Neighbour and the Neighbourhood in Macedonian Graphic Literature and Comic Book Culture

Author(s): Boshko Karadjov / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2022

In this article we analyze the portrayal of the neighbour and the neighbourhood in the Macedonian graphic stories of the Nikad robom (Never a Slave) comic book edition. It was not only one of the most influential mass and pop culture phenomena in ex-Yugoslavia, but it also participated in the ideological shaping of images and depictions of the neighbour and the neighbourhood as special types of sociopolitical and identity cogitations. The comic book, as a graphic story and a dominant pop culture phenomenon in the 1950s and 1960s, had strong ideological and political power in the processes of legitimizing the dominant social values. Within said processes, we have located several key representations and images of the neighbour in this edition which not only reveal the influence of the political and ideological factors in the shaping of national identities but also participate in the process of (re)creation and consolidation of Macedonian self-awareness as distinct from that of its neighbours. The building of the Macedonian identity, as an articulated story of itself, is largely based on perceptions and representations of and feelings for the neighbour. Hence, we come to the assumption that the portrayal of the neighbour is a type of self-portrait.

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ЧОВЕКОВИОТ ПАД ОД САКРАЛНОТО ДО ХТОНСКОТО ВО НАЈНОВИТЕ РАСКАЗИ ОД ВЕНКО АНДОНОВСКИ

Author(s): Ranko Mladenoski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 15/2023

This paper presents an analysis and interpretation of the essential narrative specifics in the latest (third) collection of short stories by Venko Andonovski, titled “Taming of the Bitch” and subtitled “Stories about Madness”, published in 2018 by the publishing house “Tri”. In the analysis and interpretation of the short stories we follow the moral decline of the modern man, but also of man in general, which is the dominant theme in this collection. This moral decline is demonstrated successively in the three narrative cycles (“Frescoes”, “Icons”, “Caricatures and Grotesques”), starting from the sacred (in the first two cycles of the collection) and through the profane to the chthonic (in the third cycle of short stories). In the conclusion of the paper, it is emphasized that the primary message in the collection of short stories “Taming of the Bitch” by Venko Andonovski - which is a narrative presentation of all forms of madness whose negative reflections result in moral decline and dehumanization of man - is demonstrated very skillfully both through the form and through the content of the short stories.

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(КАКО) ДА СЕ СТИГНЕ КОНЕЧНО ДОМА?

Author(s): Vesna Mojsova-Chepishevska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 15/2023

The paper refers to the book “Long journey home” (2022) by Vesna Kozhinkova, which resulted from her research for her doctoral dissertation on the topic: “The Aegean Theme in Contemporary Macedonian Prose through the Modalities of Domesticity”. With this book, Kozhinkova explored a whole thematic complex in Macedonian literature, recognizable by the fact that it treats the subject of forcibly exiled Macedonians from Aegean Macedonia during the Civil War in Greece. The paper presents the overall content of the book's chapters and comments on the issues raised in it, as well as the author's approach and conclusions. Kozhinkova's “Long Journey Home” represents an extremely big research in the field of Macedonian philology and cultural science, more precisely in the field of contemporary Macedonian literature and culture, which contributes to the affirmation and reference of Macedonian literary-theoretical scientific thought. This book represents a thorough research that will be the basis on which some future researchers will build on, supplement and debate.

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ДЕЛОТО НА КИРИЛ ПЕНУШЛИСКИ ВО ОДБРАНА НА МАКЕДОНСКИОТ НАЦИОНАЛЕН ИДЕНТИТЕТ

Author(s): Marko Kitevski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 81/2023

Professor Dr. Kiril Penushliski was and remains a leading name in Macedonian folklore studies. Without his work, our knowledge of Macedonian folklore would be much poorer because the greatest successes of this scientific discipline in our cultural context are connected precisely with his name. Both when it comes to publishing monographic works from Macedonian folklore and when it comes to republishing significant collections of Macedonian folk works, they are associated with his name. Professor Kiril Penushliski is one of the few complete folklorists, who in his work unites several creative procedures, from recording folk creations, through their study, to their publication. It is also significant that he is one of the rare folklorists who researched the entire Macedonian folk art, folk songs, stories, short genres, customs, etc. The text examines the significance of Kiril Penushliski’s work in defending the Macedonian national identity. Penushliski repeatedly pointed out that folklore is the most powerful proof of the Macedonian national identity. In that context, the Macedonian revolutionary folk songs whose motifs are the people’s struggle for freedom, as well as the people’s determination to create a state of the Macedonian people, are of the utmost importance.

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„МУДРАЦ МАКЕДОНСКОГ ПИСМА“

Author(s): Radomir V. Ivanović / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 18/2021

The paper aims to offer a cross-section of the works of the famous Macedonian writer and reformer of the Macedonian language, Blaž Koneski. As an excellent connoisseur of the works of B. Koneski (he is the author of three monographs, two of which have been translated into Macedonian) makes a synthesis of Koneski's literary achievements by presenting his poetry, poetic, and narrative prose. Koneski's basic poetic ideas, and his creative metamorphosis, can be traced through four phases of his creative growth and development. Having presented presentation of the literary work, essays, criticism and translations of this "sage of the Macedonian language" the author concludes that the Macedonian science of language and literature appreciates the contribution of B. Koneski as rich, precious, diverse and indispensable. The contemporary and future history of Macedonian culture, science and art are unthinkable without the valuable, contentrich and diverse creative work of Blaž Koneski.

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НЕОБИЧНАТА ОБИЧНОСТ НА ВЕЛИКИОТ КОНЕСКИ

Author(s): Vesna Mojsova-Čepiševska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 18/2021

The short phrase "simple and strict Macedonian song" from the famous "Vezilka" (“Embroider”) became a "kind of emblem” of the creative genius Koneski, his poetic manifesto” (according to Lidija Kapushevska-Drakulevska) Atanas Vangelov emphasizes that when he says that the criterion - a simple and strict poem has spread to the entire poetry of Blaze Koneski, achieving a degree of general and immediate provision. The first part alludes to the simplicity of the poetic utterance, but it is that unusual ordinaryness characteristic for Chekhov's poetics, or that simplicity which, as Yuri Lotman would say, is a consequence of mastered complexity, because it does not precede it, but appears on its background (according to Milan Gjurchinov). Complementary to the symbolic principles is the second part of the symbolism - the rigor of the poem which suggests the rational control and self-criticism of the poet in the act of creation. Thus, the two options that are experienced as two extremes / opposites intertwine and build the unique, unique verse of Koneski.

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Environmental Threats in American and Macedonian Dystopian Fiction

Author(s): Kalina Maleska / Language(s): English Issue: 44 (49)/2023

Various environmental changes threaten local environments and the world at large. Some of these changes have visible immediate effects on people’s lives, as exemplified by the pollution in the Macedonian capital of Skopje, which for several years has ranked among the world’s most polluted cities. Additionally, global warming is estimated to have devastating consequences for all life on Earth. While American writers have increasingly incorporated discussion of climate change into their fiction, Macedonian literature has rarely delved into environmental issues. Therefore, this article aims to contribute by exploring specific environmental aspects in several previously unexplored Macedonian dystopian works by Branko Prlja, Ivan Šopov and Biljana Crvenkovska. These works are compared to the novel Forty Signs of Rain by the American writer Kim Stanly Robinson, analysing the approaches employed in addressing environmental threats. The comparative view, as well as placing all of these works in the context of existing factual information about climate change and pollution, indicates the cultural differences between the narratives, but also the common ground they share about possible responses that may be undertaken to tackle environmental problems.

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Fatalna dvojništva u Strahu od barbara Petra Andonovskog

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Fatalna dvojništva u Strahu od barbara Petra Andonovskog

Author(s): Ana Fazekaš / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3/2023

Na osamljenu grčkom otoku, čijoj ljepoti tešku protutežu čini okrutnost male i sve manje zajednice, susreću se dvije priče, dvije povijesti, dvije ljubavi otvorena kraja koje jedna drugu sestrinski naslućuju. Knjigu otvara razglednica, ili se tako barem čini; tkanje nalik na pismo davnoj prijateljici, ili prvoj ljubavi — ili oboje. No ubrzo postaje jasno da nije riječ o epistolarnoj cjelini, nego o dvjema polovicama, magnetski vezanima intuitivnom srodnošću, ali odvojenima životnim okolnostima, stegama koje će ih odvojenima držati do njihova ovostranog kraja. Roman Strah od barbara makedonskog autora Petra Andonovskog (u hrvatskom prijevodu Ivice Bakovića) fragmentarna je studija prijateljstva i neprijateljstva, doma i obezdomljenosti, užasa pred drugačijim i nepoznatim, i užasa kojim taj užas rezultira.

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ПОСТМОДЕРНИ МЕЃУЧОВЕЧКИ РЕЛАЦИИ, МАНИПУЛАТИВНИ ИГРИ НА МОЌ И ЕТИЧКИ НОРМИ ВО РОМАНОТ ДИССОМНИИ НА ИГОР СТАНОЈОСКИ

Author(s): Jasmina Mojsieva-Gusheva / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 2/2023

This paper presents one possible reading of Igor Stanojoski's novel "Dyssomnias" interpreted through Bauman's fluid interpersonal relations and the ethical norms of the postmodern age. It is a novel in which the narrator's personal family drama is intertwined with the collective drama of the revolutionary protests on Maidan Square in 2013 in Ukraine, as well as with the conditions in Macedonian society, fake democracy, psychological warfare and fake news, and the influence of the new forms of propaganda on the psychological state of the individual. The starting point for the interpretation of the novel are the critical views of Malcolm Waters on globalization and the global village where the interests of powerful transnational structures can be easily incorporated, and realized through various manipulations The paper also uses the recommendations of the psychologist Claude Steiner for recognizing and exposing the manipulations of the two involved parties in the global conflicts and their transmission through the working style of of individual media personalities, which then also affects their private love life. Through a detailed analysis of the two parts of the novel, which have as their motto statements from the collection of short stories "War Doesn’t Have a Female Face" by the Nobel laureate Svetlana Aleksievich, the paper concludes that in the postmodern globalized society, in order to achieve the goals of the globalizers, people are often subject to manipulations that have a negative impact on ethics and interpersonal relations. Subsequently we are still far from the end of unification, which shall be preceded by long exhausting military conflicts involving all resources of humanity.

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ПОЕТСКИОТ ОПУС НА СТОЈАН ТАРАПУЗА (Амбиции и остварувања)

Author(s): Biljana Rajcinova-Nikolova / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 82/2023

Stojan Tarapuza is a Macedonian poet for children, who belongs to the second generation of contemporary Macedonian authors for children. He has been actively present on the Macedonian literary scene for more than six decades, primarily in the literary genre of children’s poetry, but he also shows his creative curiosity as a story - teller. On the occasion of 90 years since the birth of Tarapuza and 62 years since his creation, the paper referred to his life and work, focusing on the specificities, features and determinations of his poetry opus. For this purpose, the paper analyzed part of his poetry collections and gave the answers to the questions – What kind of poetry are we talking about here? and What are the specificities, the features of this poetry in today’s stage of its development? It was concluded that it is poetry with traditional sensibility, a part with modern sensibility, which is dominated by “the principle of creative freedom and thematic-motive versatility.

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АПОСТРОФИЧНОТО ПЕЕЊЕ НА КОЧО РАЦИН

Author(s): Marija Gjorgjieva Dimova / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 16/2023

In Jonathan Culler’s theoretical descriptions of lyric, the apostrophe is seen as an essential and endemic feature through which some of the constitutive features of this genre are manifested. Starting from these theoretical premises, the purpose of the article is to interpret the apostrophe in Kocho Racin's poetry collection White Dawns. The interpretive focus is placed on two levels: first, on the role of the apostrophe as a mechanism through which the "intratextual communicativeness" (Yuri Levin) is articulated in the poem; secondly, on the function of the apostrophe in the creation of “egotive-appellative “(Yuri Levin) lyrical models in Racine's poetry.

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COSMOGONIC AND APOCALYPTIC VISION OF THE WORLD IN THE PROSE OF ŽIVKO ČINGO

Author(s): Danijela Kostadinović / Language(s): English Issue: 16/2023

The fiction of Živko Čingo, Macedonian writer created in the spirit of magic realism, is based on the mythical and magical core generating myth about the Holy Land Paskvelia, which has been destroyed due to the frequent mistakes of its inhabitants and transformed into Pustelia (Wasteland). The structure of the fictional world in this novel is based on the connection between the traditional, patriarchal, religious, and the new socialist, communist atheistic world, on the mutual interaction of Chaos and Cosmos, of good and evil, ultimately leading to the "last times" and an apocalyptic end. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to determine, using the literary-historical, analytical, anthropological and comparative method, as well as the artistic means through which the narrative of cosmogony and apocalypse is achieved in Čingo's narrative prose.

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