«ТУНИССКОЙ ПАША» МИХАИЛА МАТИНСКОГО

Author(s): Mikhail Matinski,Alexander Lifshits / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

Более полувека назад замечательный историк русской литературы XVIII столетия П. Н. Берков пообещал опубликовать написанное Михаилом Матинским (1750–1820) и никогда не издававшееся либретто оперы Василия Пашкевича «Тунисской Паша»: «Текст ее <пьесы. – А.Л.> будет напечатан мною в одном из ближайших выпусков сборника „XVIII век“ »1. Обещание, однако, осталось не выполненным. Известный П. Н. Беркову и, похоже, единственный сохранившийся список этого драматического сочинения2 остался лежать в Театральной библиотеке в Санкт-Петербурге.

Heritage Protection Measures and Propositions through the ”Ambulance for Monuments”. The Case of the Medieval Church of Strei (Hunedoara County)

Author(s): Eugen Vaida,Ileana Burnichioiu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Yura Konstantinova. The Bulgarians in the Ottoman Thessaloniki. Sofia, Institute for Balkan Studies with Center for Thracology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2020. 440 pp.

Author(s): Nadya Danova / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2021

Book Review

Od redakcji

Author(s): Maciej Skowera,Marta Niewieczerzał / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The Mythisation of the Holocaust

Author(s): Katarzyna Jerzak / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The author of this review article critically discusses the book Dzieciństwo w la­biryncie getta. Recepcja mitu labiryntu w polskiej literaturze dziecięcej o Zagładzie [Childhood in the Labyrinth of the Ghetto: Reception of the Labyrinth Myth in Polish Children’s Literature about the Holocaust] by Krzysztof Rybak (2019). She examines the monograph in the context of, inter alia, the research already conducted in the field, literary works, architecture, memorials, the Holocaust victims’, survivors’, and witnesses’ testimonies, as well as in relation to the pos­sible symbolic links of the Shoah and the antiquity. The paper’s conclusion is that children’s literature can hardly prevent the mythisation of the Holocaust, but Rybak’s book proves beyond doubt the perseverance of myth. The banalisation, simplification, and trivialisation of the Shoah, as well as the issues of appropriateness and memory, are also important concepts that frame the author’s reflec­tions presented in this paper.

Nasz Dom jako konstrukt społeczny

Author(s): Aleksandra Zalewska-Królak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The review article refers to the monograph Nasz Dom 1919–2019. Pedagogiki społeczne, miasto i dzieciństwo w praktyce Naszego Domu [Our Home 1919–2019: Social Pedagogies, the City, and Childhood in the Practice of Our Home], edited by Marcin Gołąb and Zuzanna Sękowska (2019). It touches upon the problem of the social construct of what a ‘home’ can be. Its purpose is to show how the book captures the process of creating Nasz Dom [Our Home] depending on the context, and to discuss what a description of such characteristics can offer to the contempo­rary society. The author begins the article by presenting the assumptions of social constructivists. Then, she refers to the main elements influencing the shape of the structure of Our Home: the place, social pedagogy, and children. The article refers to the relationship between the practiced model of upbringing and the paradigm of childhood studies that emerged later. Particular emphasis is placed on the subjec­tivity of the child and the process of creating its rights.

D’Amaurote à Dumocala : variations sur les rois en utopie

Author(s): François Rosset / Language(s): French Issue: 11/2021

After recalling the figure of Pantagruel, a grandson of the king of Utopia and king of the Dipsodes - which makes it possible to evoke some of the properties of utopia, and in particular that which consists of searching within utopia itself for filial links it maintains with previous texts - the discussion is narrowed down to the figure of the king in the tradition of utopia, with Sylvain Maréchal's Last Judgement of Kings serving as an example. Next, attention is directed more specifically to the figure of the king of Poland, a figure particularly suited to stimulate the political imagination of Europeans in the 18th century, and then to the person of Stanislas Leszczyński - the only sovereign to have written a utopia. He is the author of the short novel Entretien d’un Européan avec un insulaire du Royaume de Dumocala, which is both faithful to the narrative model it helps to perpetuate and devoid of any revolutionary intentions.

L’Abbaye de Thélème : une enclave soustraite au réel ou le paroxysme d’une société élitiste

Author(s): Matthieu Founeau / Language(s): French Issue: 11/2021

This article aims to analyze the Abbey of Thélème imagined by François Rabelais to get a clear idea about the initial utopian programme, by means of observing its shapes and limits. It will situate this work at an intersection between humanitarian values, contribution from More, spiritual crisis, and above all a pressing demand for renewal and novelty, resulting from societal and political criticism. It is from this opening statement that we will try to approach the structure, the project and the laws regulating and organizing this particular utopian society, before determining its limits. Attention will be paid to its construction, concrete and theoretical, in a parallel with the architecture of the convent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette designed by Le Corbusier. Thus, we will demonstrate how Rabelais’ linguistic games overstep the ideological project for the benefit of a new type of writing, complex and multifaceted. We will have to understand a lot of paradoxes which allow us to determine the importance of the literature beyond the initial utopian project.

Azor d’Aunillon : l’équivoque du langage dans un récit utopique de 1750

Author(s): Stanisław Świtlik / Language(s): French Issue: 11/2021

While included in Garnier’s collection, Azor, a little known work of Aunillon from 1750, does not follow the literary rules of most narrative utopias. However, the complex story presents critical thinking about the development of refined societies. The change which a mute community experiences on an island while learning to speak calls into question the future of this happy society, but no narrator’s commentary elaborates on this turning point in the utopia. In Azor, language becomes an ambiguous object which allows for the critical consideration of the steps necessary to access philosophical sophistication but also implicitly highlights problems associated with too hasty a progress. Through the narrative plot, the judgment on civilization reveals a subtle and skillful examination of hopes and challenges of the Enlightenment, articulated in a narrative utopia as in a laboratory of ideas. Aunillon's work is part of the debates of the mid-century by expressing a nuanced validation of civilization.

Reality in a Microcosm: Railway Modeling in Bulgaria – Narratives, Images, Discourses

Author(s): Angelina Ilieva / Language(s): English Issue: Special 2/2020

The article is a culturological and anthropological study of railway modeling in Bulgaria. The history, the social organization, and the cultural practices of the Bulgarian modelists are represented through the prism of their personal narratives and discourses shared in the public space. At the same time, railway modeling is conceptualized as a cultural microcosm with specific artistic “poetics”. The author also outlines some basic themes within the verbal and visual discourse: the aesthetics of the models, their technical precision, the image of the modelist as a creator, as well as the attitude towards Bulgarian railroads as cultural heritage.

30 de ani de la destrămarea R.S.F. Iugoslavia. Despre politică, societate şi „cultură de masă” – consideraţii

Author(s): Daniel Lazăr / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 67/2021

The Yugorock of the 70s-90s was not rejected a priori by the regime, as it occurred in the other socialist countries. The Communist Party believed that it was harmless as long as the authorities monitored it closely. The outbreak of the civil war in 1991 coincided with the “cultural” debut of turbofolk in Serbia and Serbian territories throughout Yugoslavia. It was characterized as a suburban culture movement, “tasted” by uneducated supporters of Slobodan Milošević’s style and that abounds in elements of kitsch by promoting peripheral messages such as “war glamour”, “greedy is cool”, “get rich quickly”, able to fascinate a decomposing society. In the last decade of the 20th Century, the hostile historical context turned Serbia of Slobodan Milošević into the victim of a predominant cultural “narcissism”, where certainties were eliminated and where the infallibility of the new Leader tended to become immanent.

Философията на модернизма в архитектурата на БАУХАУС

Author(s): Iskra Dandolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

After 1989, the construction of industrially built residential blocks in residential complexes in Sofia was stopped. Until then, for two or three decades, they were the most important production for the construction of residential buildings in the capital according to the principles of modernism. Thousands of homeless people eagerly awaited them to be sheltered. Confusion ensued after the political changes in 1989, when attempts were made to implement the laws on the restitution of agricultural land within the complexes, despite the fact that these were “projects with implementation” and according to the Restitution Law no changes could be made there. The complexes, as well as the other constructions in progress, only had to be completed according to their designs. But it did not happen. In many places, “illegal restitution” of private agricultural land has begun, as well as spontaneous “privatization” of municipal and state lands and new construction in violation of the projects for the development of residential complexes. Their physical and social environment has changed radically and as a result the quality of life in them has deteriorated sharply. Thirty years after 1989, the residential complexes of Sofia have dramatically moved away from the principles of modernism and are almost everywhere in spatial and social degradation. An intensive process of anti-modernism is under way. Only recently the Sofia Municipality decided to introduce a policy to improve the living conditions of citizens in these territories – will it be able to realize and develop it and is it not too late?

Дисертации

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Defended Ph.D. theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, and art studies

Научни форуми

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in 2021

60 години българистика в Китай

Author(s): Chen Ying / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Международна българистична конференция „Българският език, литературата и културата на България: пътища през мултикултурния свят“

Author(s): Krasimira Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Научен колоквиум „Българистиката в дигиталната ера“

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Translations of Patristic Literature in South-Eastern Europe

Author(s): Ivan P. Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Religious Rhetoric of Power in Byzantium and South-Eastern Europe

Author(s): Elena Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021

Biblical Apocrypha in South-Eastern Europe and Related Areas

Author(s): Ekaterina Todorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 43/2021