Iwona Sowińska: Chopin idzie do kina. Kraków 2013
Book review of "Chopin idzie do kina" by Iwona Sowińska
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Book review of "Chopin idzie do kina" by Iwona Sowińska
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In 1926, Italian Futurist Tommaso Marinetti received the radical Manifesto of the Fellowship Fighting against Poets. It was sent by Bulgarian avant-gardist Kiril Krastev, whose literary circle, Crescendo, was putting into question the normative dichotomy between Young and Old, modernists and traditionalists, constitutive of Bulgarian literature. In every national literature or Weltliteratur, there are anomalies, malfunctions, and exclusions. This essay analyses a particular anomaly – the Crescendo literary circle and its (im)possible existence. We define distext as something that does not belong to a particular context or that breaks with(in) the cultural conditions of possible or actual emergence. Our analysis raises several theoretical and historical questions: how radical is the manifesto in relation to the Western European avant-garde; does it have any influence outside its local distextual context; what is its connection to Dada movement; and most importantly, what does this anomaly say about the history of Bulgarian literature and its peripheries?
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This book forum discusses Ivan Kalmar’s pivotal book on the position of “Central Europe” in the racialized hierarchies of “West”/“Europe” and their not-quite-white Others. The authors debate the main contributions and potential blind spots of the book and its key concepts. The concepts of racism and whiteness answer the not-so-new question on Central Europe and Europ’s “East” anew: How come that the populations of and in this diverse region happen to repeatedly find themselves in the very same marginal position in European historical orders? This question has very contemporary manifestations; Europe’s persistent East-West socioeconomic and socio-cultural hierarchies, among others, co-produce the local populations’ marginalized or marginalizing positioning vis-à-vis each other and the rest of Europe or the world. In this honest discussion, the authors chart new intellectual pathways for utilizing racism and whiteness to help us better understand this question and its many manifestations from within and outside the region.
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For centuries, the light of knowledge illuminates the way to move forward and preserve as a people our language, race and homeland.
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The article presents the pioneering results of research on the history of Fabryka Wyrobów Metalowych Famak, the largest manufacturer of cutlery and table accessories in Łódź in the 1920s. So far, the literature on the subject has not dealt with issues related to the activities of Łódź – based companies producing clad products. The creation of the plant, its history and production profile are described.
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Allow me to quote these unusual – or should I say genial – words of Constantine the Great dated to 313 AD: “No one should be forced to observe religion… Let everyone follow the religion he chooses… Everyone may freely believe in what his heart wants… One who is convinced to be in the right path of faith should not mistreat others. At worst, he should only help others. If he does not want that, let him leave them be. Let everyone try to save his soul as his soul desires, it should not be forced onto him. I wish that my people live peacefully and be serene; this is the common good of all people and the entire Empire. Let those who mistake, same as those who have faith, feel joyfully the benefit of the peace and serenity. Namely, that graceful peace in society may bring those who mistake back to the right path. Let no one mistreat others and let everyone have what his heart wants, and let them revere what they believe.
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