Несколько замечаний о необычной славянской редакции Видения апостола Павла из рукописных cобраний в Польше

Author(s): Jan Stradomski / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2014

The apocryphal Apocalypse of St. Paul the Apostle belongs to the group of early-Christian texts which exerted significant impact on people’s perception of the nether world and the Last Judgment. In the Middle Ages, the text was known in the area of western and eastern Christian literary tradition. Numerous translations also include the rendition of the Apocalypse of St. Paul the Apostle into Church Slavonic, made in Bulgaria between the 10th and the 11th century, whose presence and distribution in the area of southern Slavdom and Ruthenia is confirmed by copies of manuscripts. The article is devoted to a manuscript of the Apocalypse of St. Paul the Apostle hitherto overlooked in studies, whose unique form supplements and makes the Slavic textual tradition of the manuscript more comprehensible. The unique feature of the discussed copy is supplementation of the text with an ending, present only in the ancient Syrian and Coptic translations of the apocryphal text.

IZBRISANI ROBERTO BOLANJO

Author(s): Ignacio Echevarría / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 504/2017

To što sam poslednjih godina života Roberta Bolanja bio njegov prijatelj učinilo je da posle njegove smrti prisustvujem nekim neobičnim iskustvima, da to kažemo tako.

Уметност сумње у роману Мамац Давида Албахарија

Author(s): Milica Lazović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 163/2017

The paper analyzes the theme of creativity in the novel Bait by David Albahari,as it is closely connected with the question of language and silence in the literary work. Doubt connects creativity with language, and is closely related to the possibility of writing, as well as the ability of words to express the complexity of human experience. The lack of trust in the words of the narrator, who wants to become a writer, alternates with his unconditional faith in the omnipotence of language and its unique qualities. He questions his own creative abilities, while his doubt in the epistemological, but also ontological status of the world, leads him to the belief that silence is the basis of reality, while utterance is its natural quality. For a writer, silence,as an integral part of being, is not a void, but the key that contains the unrealized possibilities, where he draws his material from and creates the imaginary world of a literary work. The identity of the narrator in Albahari’s novel is determined by his boundary position, since he is at the crossroads of the two countries and two languages, struggling with the past and making sense of the present, trapped in the gap between literature and existence and unable to define himself by their complex relations. Faced with a new environment and a different language, the narrator reaches for his mother’s confession recorded on tape shortly before her death and his trip to Canada, hoping that her testimony will clarify the important factors of his identity. The conversations with his poetic alter ego, the Canadian writer Donald,which reflect the writer’s most important autopoetic attitudes, have the same function. The circumstances of life are bringing the narrator back to various forms and roles of language, pointing out that at all times and in all places the writer’s (native) language remains his only true reality.

Прича о секачу бамбуса као зачетник јапанског жанра моногатари

Author(s): Danijela Vasić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 148/2012

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori monogatari) is the oldest fantastic narrative in Japan, created probably in the late 9th or early 10th centuries. The work gives rise to numerous dilemmas, among which are various theories as to when the work was written, and the author is also unknown. Taketori Monogatari demonstrates essential characteristics of the monogatari genre, as well as the tsukuri monogatari subgenre: a detailed realistic description and a minute psychological representation of the principal characters’ thoughts and feelings. Simultaneously, many parts reveal foreign influences, primarily of Taoist thought. Certain segments of the work show the features of classical fairy tale, others show those of legend, but the psychological shading of the characters, developed dialogues and realistic and discreetly comic overtones bring it closer to the spirit of a novella.

Master of Unrest. The Terrible Power of Guilt and Remorse in Avot Yeshurun’s Poetry

Author(s): Shoshana Ronen / Language(s): English,Hebrew Issue: 03/2018

The essay portrays and analysis the images of pre-war Krasnystaw in the poetry of the Hebrew poet Avot Yeshurun. It concentrates on the idyllic images of his hometown in his late poetry, mostly in the volume Master of Rest, and confronts it with the images of Tel Aviv, the city in which he was living from 1925 till his death (1992). His illustration of Krasnystaw is strongly connected to his feelings of guilt and remorse for abandoning his family there, and for surviving while almost all his family was murdered in the Holocaust. A minor, imperfect atonement, a tombstone to those who do not have one, is restoring from oblivion by interweaving his mother’s Yiddish letters in his linguistically utterly unique Hebrew poetry.

Aspekte të kategorisë së vdekjes në tragjeditë e Shakespeares

Author(s): Besim Rexhaj / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 23/2018

Whether it is an issue of murder or of suicide, whether it is an individual or a collective murder between opponent groups or communities, death as a complex reality is projected more densely as a reflex and as reality of life, especially in dramatic literature, due to the structure of the genre, i.e. tragedy, or due to the greater expressive and modelling opportunities of its complexity, i.e. as drama and dramaticity, thus forming a separate chapter where death is an almost inevitable condition of the literary work. In Shakespeare's universe, death forms a separate world, a sui generis world, which through its complexity and its dynamics makes one face confrontations and challenges of identification and then of eventual interpretation. No other playwright has produces such a large number of deaths, perhaps due to the great number of his tragedies or due to the great number of the characters within these tragedies; no other playwright has produced words in which so much blood is spilled, where death is summoned so often and where murder appears in front of the reader or the audience in all its cruelness, its coldness, its horror and its pathology brought forth on stage, in all its macabre colors, full of its hellish sounds and all o fits unimaginable paradoxes. Further, this study emphasized that death, whether it is death in Hamlet, or in Macbeth, or in Richard III, in Julius Caesar or in Othello, results and is realized as a consequence of influence, ambition, revenge, political necessity or psychological necessity, compensation for the insufficiency of personality, and as a cause and effect of the wish for power, for privilege, for position and for having control on others. Naturally, death as murder and suicide in almost all of Shakespeare's tragedies has its particular motives and dynamics, nevertheless, it has a common designator which consists of ambition, need, influence, revenge, political defense as political war or as war for power, and when it comes to love, those elements are jealousy, deception and psychoaffective self-deception. The various modalities of death (death as a philosophical, moral and metaphysical category, death as the result of ambition and of the insufficiency of personality i.e. death as the result of the attempt for the compensation of the inferiority complex, death as placed in the context of political dynamics and the dynamics of political influence as well as the consequences and mysteries of death) form not only the themes and motifs and the ideological and philosophical aspects inherent in Shakespeare's works, but also some of the dimensions and the main unchanging factors in his dramaturgy.

Metamorfozele poeziei

Author(s): Rodica Grigore / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 05+06/2017

Admired or contested, Pablo Neruda remains one of the greatest Latin American poets of all times. Wishing to make his poetry as large as life itself and to reflect the true nature of his native land, the writer always tried to multiply his means of expression, from his youth poems of (unrequited) love to the unexpected (almost baroque) composition of his mature volumes. The Nobel Prize that was awarded to him in 1973 sent the whole world a strong message about his creative force and versatility of expression.

Jóváhagyatlan életrajz Ted Hughesról

Author(s): György Gömöri / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2019

Не знам и не осећам. О Istočnom diwanu Џевада Карахасана и Гетеовом Западно-источном дивану

Author(s): Miodrag Vukčević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 164/2018

The history of religion, which has an impact on the intercultural communication, nds its lasting expression in the literary discourse. On the example of the literary dialogue between Karahasan‘s Eastern Diwan and Goethe‘s West-Eastern Diwan, we observe, on the one hand, a distinction between the cultural and religious communities and, on the other, a border shift that can be understood in terms of religious history, but is not supported by cultural history. While in the secondary literature the reception of Goethe‘s point of view is uncritical with regard to the self-reflection, the reception of Karahasan‘s work only recognizes a locally valid topic that addresses a one-sidedly expressed world of appearances.

Le collezioni della biblioteca di Kirill Turovskij: materiali e prime ipotesi

Author(s): Francesca Romoli / Language(s): Italian Issue: 164/2018

L’articolo ofire un inventario delle fonti patristiche e bizantine delle omelie attribuite a Kirill Turovskij (1130-1182, vescovo dal 1169) con l’obiettivo di individuare le collezioni agiografico-omiletiche di cui egli si servì. In particolare si procederà alla verifica della presenza delle fonti della sua omiletica sia nelle collezioni compatibili per datazione con l’epoca in cui egli visse, sia in quelle che tradizionalmente si ritengono appartenenti a epoche successive. Qualora la verifica non produca risultati apprezzabili, i dati raccolti saranno interpretati come prove indiziarie dell’esistenza di una o più ipotetiche collezioni, prive di testimonianze dirette e ancora ignote, che accoglievano, fra le altre, le fonti dell’omiletica cirilliana. Ammessa l’origine greco-bizantina di molte collezioni slave, l’inventario delle fonti sarà valutato anche nel confronto con alcune collezioni greche.

Пост-аутономија или шта је остало од књижевности? Случај Аргентине

Author(s): Đurđa Trajković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 164/2018

The text examines the question of post-autonomy in the Argentine literature, where the difference between the autonomous and post-autonomous literatures is introduced. As a fragile concept, post-autonomy helps to elucidate the changes happening in literature as an institution and a social field. Considering the case of Argentina the paper offers an overview of the dominant literary tendencies through examples illustrating conservative but also subversive charge of the aesthetic and political tendencies typical of the Argentine literature of the 20th century. The author suggests that today, at the beginning of the third millennium, we witness the end of the high literature and exhaustion of the aesthetic ideology which was dominant from the Romanticism until today. The question is what is left of literature and what literary politics is possible in the era of globalization. The author suggests further theoretical developing of the term post-autonomy.

Књижевност као виртуелна реалност

Author(s): Miloš Jocić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 164/2018

Dekolonizacija palestinskog subalterna u poeziji otpora Mahmuda Derviša

Author(s): Mirza Sarajkić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2018

The paper considers Palestinian poetry of resistance as a decolonizing discourse that clearly re-presents the subaltern’s experience. The subject of poetry is most often represented as a subaltern who has no right to vote, but who materializes the forbidden image of Palestine through poetry. Most of the poems of Mahmoud Darwish are deep testimonies of the Palestinian homo sacer in the lost in the realm of Israeli thanatopolitics. The paper analyses the twofold existential subordination of the Palestinian people through the songs in which Darwish shows Palestinian oppression and mythologization of its tragedy in the context of the Arab world. Palestine poetry of resistance represents its subaltern as a complex and multivalent, not a monolithic entity.

Egy ismeretterjesztő kötet mint emancipatorikus paradigmák manifesztuma?

Author(s): Péter Zoltán Kovács / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2019

Sean Teuton: Native American Literature. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018.

Városi felhőkre vetülő álmok

Author(s): Imre József Balázs / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2019

Medvefelhő a város felett. Észak-amerikai indián költők antológiája. Ford. Gyukics Gábor. Scolar, Bp., 2015.

A síkságról nézve

Author(s): Helga Imola Biró / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2019

Csillagokkal táncoló Kojot. Észak-amerikai indián mesék. Vál. Cseh Tamás. Méry Ratio Kiadó, Somorja, 2006.

Orientalist Fantasies in Graphic Narratives: Depictions of the Orient in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman

Author(s): Demir Alihodžić / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2019

This paper examines the Orientalist depictions of the ancient Egyptian pantheon in Neil Gaiman’s iconic graphic novel series The Sandman. Edward Said’s Orientalism provides a focused means for this paper to examine how Gaiman’s The Sandman navigates the problematic issues of representation in regards to a subject where representation itself is complicit in perpetrating a centuries-old mode of colonial and cultural subjugation. In his graphic narratives, Gaiman seeks to redeem the negative Orientalist fantasies of the past that were once tools of empire by returning these fantasies back to the East as restorative and by granting them autonomy.

Reflections of a vanished time. The melancholy of objects in Georgi Gospodinov’s and Orhan Pamuk’s works

Author(s): Giustina Selvelli / Language(s): English Issue: 1 (29)/2019

In this paper, I focus on the role played by material objects in the evocation of a specific imaginary of the recent past (mainly the 1970s and 1980s) in the literary works of Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov (in the novels “The Physics of Sorrow” and “Natural Novel”) and of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk (in “The Museum of Innocence”). I analyze the presence of feelings of melancholy and loss accompanied by a fixation on objects in the fictional works and describe their possible overcoming through an externalization in the form of museum exhibitions in the city of Sofia and Istanbul such as the “Inventory depository of Socialism” and the “Museum of Innocence”. By viewing objects as actors capable of creating meaningful social networks, I consider their use in the narration of personal and collective histories and their transformation as powerful symbols of a bygone era.

Identity and Nostalgia in Chinese Zhiqing Literature

Author(s): Andreea Chirita / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

Contemporary China has turned its recent traumatic history, namely, the Cultural Revolution, into a mere product of commodification, a good source of income based on elderly people’s memories of things past, or youngsters’ tendencies of reconstructing and reimagining it as a symptom of discontentment with the capitalist, alienating moral values. A dark moment of Chinese history has thus become the symbol of an idealized world, which, at the end of the 90’s, started creating a wave of pureblood nostalgia for it, especially among those very people and victims who experienced this gigantic human tragedy. The zhiqing generation, or the young intellectuals dislocated for hard labor and reeducation in remote parts of the Chinese countryside, transcend the painful memories about their own past and reinvent it through a kind and nostalgic light, within long series of equally nostalgic memoirs that boomed in the Chine literary landscape at the end of the 90’s. This essay tries to explore the socio-psychological reasons that led to such a flabbergasting attitude during the post-Mao era, at a time when China becomes more and more visible culturally and economically on the global scene.

M. AVEZOV’UN «ABAY YOLU» ROMANINDAKİ İSİM YÜKLEMLİ CÜMLELERİN KULLANILIŞ BİÇİMLERİ

Author(s): Erdoğan Altınkaynak,Safura Boribayeva,Sovetkhanovna Smagulova Aigerim / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 44/2019

Nominal sentences are examined in the Kazakh language on the material of epic novel of М.Auezov "The way of Abai". Their differences from the verbal sentences are educed and communicative setting of nominal sentences is determined. The findings of the study are shown in tables.The experts and young researchers specialised in the syntax of emergence of Kazakh Linguistics and its development through time have researched the simple, compound and complex types of sentences, their differences, inner meanings and outer structures on a large scale.Despite all these efforts, the sentence types present in our language, yet not researched scientifically, have been included within the scope of Linguistic research. In addition, the characteristics of sentence structure, the direct influence of word types upon this, and their effect on the meaning of the sentence are some of the issues dealt with. In the present situation of the development in Kazakh Linguistics, clarification of the relations between different levels of language will be an important dimension of the the structure in Kazakh language syntax. Nominal sentences were first distinguished and their differences from the verbal ones were first shown in turkic linguistics by A.P.Potseluevskiy and in Kazakh linguistics by M.Balakaeviy. The special attention was paid to the comparison of the sentences used in the first (1942) and second (1961) editions of novel of М.Auezov "The way of Abai". The replacement of verbal sentences meeting in the first edition on the nominal ones in the second, is conditioned, according to the opinion of author, by ability of last not only capaciously and exactly to express an idea but also to strengthen an expressiveness of the text, performing the communicative-pragmatic duty. In this article much attention is given to the nominal sentences, their kinds, features of the usage in the novel of classic of Kazakh literature, writer М.Auezov "The way of Abai".