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Чудакът: Между първата сълза и последната радост (наблюдения върху разказите на Б. Станкович и Й. Йовков)

Author(s): Marina Vladeva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The purpose of the present paper is to expand the spaces for dialogue in two South Slavic literatures – Bulgarian and Serbian – by means of emphasising the typological similarities between two short stories – “First Tear” by Borisav Stankovic and “Last Joy” by Yordan Yovkov. The literary comparison between the two works can be made mainly in view of the characters’ system, and in particular – a comparison between the images of the eccentric, the social outcast – Stankovic’s Dimitar and Yovkov’s Liutskan. Despite that both characters have been created in different decades, the two texts outline the horizons of the difficult ascription of the other, of the differences in a social reality, which speaks the language of hatred, instead of the language of flowers. The two characters’ portraits and psychological characteristics, as well as the suffering as a form of their existential presence make their spiritual comparison most natural.

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Постмодернистката деконструкция на провинциално-имперските координати: „Убийство във Византия“ от Юлия Кръстева

Author(s): Roman Dzyk / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Julia Kristeva’s Murder in ByzantiumThe article examines Julia Kristeva’s novel Murder in Byzantium, in which a typical structuralist provincial-imperial model of the world order is deconstructed from the standpoint of post-structuralism. It is assumed that the appeal to the history of Byzantium has certain autobiographical grounds. In this way, Kristeva demonstrates the relativity of the concepts of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ from a historical perspective: Byzantium, Bulgaria, France, the United States eventually dissolve into the “global village”, which is embodied in the novel in the image of Santa Barbara.

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За книгата: Камелия Спасова. Модерният мимесис: Саморефлексията в литературата. София, УИ „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2021, 328 с.

Author(s): Nikolay Genov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Kamelia Spassova, Modern Mimesis: Self-Reflexivity in Literature. Sofia, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2021.

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За книгата: Писането за себе си и неговите жанрове. Писма, дневници и други форми на автобиографичния разказ в европейската писмена практика (XVIII – XX век). Съставител Маргарита Серафимова. София, Издателски център „Боян Пенев“, 2021.

Author(s): Elitza Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Self-writing and its genres. Letters, diaries and other forms of autobiographical narrative in European scriptural practice (18th-20th centuries). Edited by Margarita Serafimova. Sofia, Boyan Penev Publ 2021

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За книгата: Елка Трайкова. Литературноисторически и критически сюжети. София, ИЦ „Боян Пенев“, 2021, 226 с.

Author(s): Nadezhda Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Elka Traykova. Literary-Historical and Critical Plots. Sofia, Boyan Penev Press, 2021, 226 p.

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За книгата: Николай Генов. Виртуалният човек. Опит върху фантоматиката. София, „Версус“, 2022, 240 с.

Author(s): Galina Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review: Nikolay Genov. The Virtual Human: A Study on Phantomatics. Sofia, Versus Publishing, 2022

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ALICE WALKER’S WOMANIST OUTLOOK

Author(s): Amada Mocioalcă / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2020

Walker’s womanist credo seems exemplified in the words and the passions of Shug. Walker’s literature and life work have been an expression of splendour and love of life. But they have also arisen from Walker’s immersion in the stuff of lamentation, outcry, blues.

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ARCHETYPAL PATTERNS IN CONTEMPORARY DYSTOPIA

Author(s): Ileana Botescu-Sireţeanu / Language(s): English Issue: 26/2021

The present paper situates its concerns at the crossroads of literary studies, anthropology and the theory of culture in order to investigate how contemporary dystopian literature employs archaic structures in order to subvert the authority and authenticity of grand narratives such as mythology and religion. In this respect, the present study looks at two particular instances of contemporary Canadian fiction, Margaret Atwood’s iconic dystopia, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Michael Ondaatje’s more discreet The English Patient, as they appear to be complementary in illustrating how the use of culturally consecrated archetypal patterns is directed towards demythologizing and eventually dismantling the Western cultural narrative. Departing from classical anthropological theories, this paper argues that contemporary dystopia incorporates archetypal structures in a subversive, yet totally pertinent challenge of old idols. Thus, the disenchantment of the world and of experience is paradoxically achieved, once more, through storytelling.

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NATURALISTIC SIMILARITIES IN ROMANIAN AND GERMAN LITERATURE

Author(s): Oana Carina Cîrcu (Crișan) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 30/2022

The naturalist current has its origin in France and has developed throughout Europe. In terms of Romanian and German literature, the naturalism first appears in Germany and then in Romania. The similarities between the two literary manifestations are: family disasters, the city, the collective character, the environment, the decadence, the degeneration, reality fiction correspondence, the death, the representation of the female character, the heredity, the disease and the music.

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GURA SATULUI REVIEW - ROMANIAN LANGUAGE LITERARY PLATFORM IN ARAD

Author(s): Diana Bunaciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 30/2022

The Gura Satului review, the first satire and humor publication issued in Arad in March 1871 after moving it’s headquarters from Pesta, came to the fore at the turn of the XXth century, as a publishing national and local landmark. The magazine does more than making fun, by holding on to thorough principles accomplished by its copy editors and contributors despite numerous drawbacks such as the censorship imposed by the foreign rulers or financial worries. For 17 years (1871-1879; 1881; January 1890; 1901-1903; 1912-1914; 1934) the magazine was for the people in Arad, a catalyst of Romanian intellectual creativity by publishing both written literature and folklore, promoting young writers and cultural soirees, and a means for reflecting those times’ reality tackled in satire and humor, in a period in which the Transylvanian history suffered numerous social and political convulsions. Last but not least, Gura Satului played an important role not only in entertainment by publishing humor literature, anecdotes, jokes but it also played a moralizing role by condemning social flaws with the aid of satire and pamphlet. But, above all, Gura Satului was a literary platform that stimulated creativity and the inclination towards literature, the reception and dissemination of the written text in Romanian language, the approach to different literary species.

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SPACE, TIME AND DREAM –IMAGINARY BOUNDS IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Author(s): Alice Jurcoveț / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

The purpose of this article is to highlight connections between elements related to space, time and dream, using interdisciplinarity. Thus, we will illustrate the notions illustrated above in fine art, in a branch of rock music - gothic and black metal, and literature. As for the dream, we addressed the religious and psychoanalytic dimension, along with famous paintings and established songs, belonging to the dark wave style and, of course, Fantasy literature for children. The concepts of space and time create extremely interesting polemics, theories, hypotheses in the disciplines of exact sciences, providing research material, reproduction of reality within the disciplines that belong to the artistic branch. I also associated the concepts with the term "imaginary", as an opening to the opportunity to project worlds or even travel, through the dream, to them and, with the help of the hypnotic power of music, to place ourselves, at least mentally, in a safe space and unaltered by the aggression of the outside world.

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THE LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF TEODOR MAZILU’S SLUM ON THE BIG SCREEN

Author(s): Luminița VELKER (COLOPELNIC) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2023

The article reveals a lesser-known role of the great playwright Teodor Mazilu, that of a screenwriter. Although he has several collaborations with cinematography, the making of the film "Bariera" is representative. We analyzed the motivations that were the basis of the collaboration with the director Mircea Mureșan, possible satisfactions and regrets, the value of the screening, the similarities and differences between the book and the film, the message and the atmosphere created by the film.

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EMINESCU AND THE FINE ARTS: RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS

Author(s): Robert-Andrei Stoica / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2023

This paper analyzed and aimed at identifying the works of art specific to the Renaissance period to which Mihai Eminescu refers in his prose. Eminescu acquired a wide knowledge of fine arts thanks to the period of his studies abroad. Access to European museums, which he visits with Epaminonda Bucevski from Bucovina, will influence Eminescu in his literary prose. Wanting to evoke an era in which art must be reborn, Eminescu demonstrates that the paintings built through prosopography and hypotyposis have an important role in the economy of the text, they constitute micronarratives.

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LEFTIST MYTHS AND THE COMMUNIST CENSORSHIP

Author(s): Iulian Băicuș / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

In this critical essay I have been trying to link the concept of leftwing political myths to some articles written by the famous historian of Religions, Mircea Eliade, during his years of Exile, when he was living in Paris, against the process of denationalization under the Soviet Union occupation. The Iron Curtain has separated the Romanians in exiled people and those who couldn’t leave the huge prison of the former Democratic Romania. Mircea Eliade is quoting different examples of censorship, the purge of public libraries of so-called Fascist literature, the ban of several great Romanian writers, considered to be to bourgeois to fit in the new proletarian culture, named after a famous Soviet word, The Proletcult.

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DIASPORA MISSIOLOGY THEORY, METHODOLOGY, AND PRACTICEIN AMY TAN’S ‘THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT’

Author(s): Maria Cristina Chintescu / Language(s): English Issue: 33/2023

This piece of writing focuses on the theme of ‘Otherness’ in Amy Tan’s novel ‘The Valley of Amazement’ but from an opposing view now, that of a genuine woman and mother who skillfully struggles to mingle and adapt to the Chinese way of life proposing a cultural theme now, that of the Courtesan Houses in China. The balance switches for the time being. We are dealing in the reversed In-group (the genuine Chinese) and Out-group (Lucia Minturn, born American and who came to China in the hope to marry the father of her daughter, Violet). The article brings the following themes to the center of attention: assimilation, ethnicity, family, prostitution, Chinese and American worlds. The article underlines the alterity between the In-group and the Out-group. The connection is made by Violet, who, as a regular half- Chinese, is hesitant to learn about her Chinese origins. We focus on the constant gap between Lucia's life and Violet's. What is spectacular about this novel is Lucia's return to America and Violet's staying in China.

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Resorting to Faith in a World of Dystopia

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of resorting to faith which is present in the science fiction novel published in 2022 “O lacrima de Batavia” by Sergiu Somesan. The novel could be described as showing what happens after an apocalypse, since the sudden lack of electricity and electromagnetism suddenly occur. The story of the main characters resorts to the old myth of renewal and keeping faith. We could make an analogy with the situation during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many turned up to faith given the situation. What makes anyone resort to faith in difficult circumstances will be analyzed from the perspective of psychological theories. The dystopia described in the novel could have links with various presuppositions in the current political world; however, the author claims to have thought of the idea of lack of electricity before it was given as a possible scenario by the EU.

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ROMAIN GARY ET LA BULGARIE

Author(s): Maya Timénova-Koen / Language(s): French Issue: 4/2023

This paper is meant to trace the Romain Gary’s experience like diplomat in Sofia, 1946 – 1948. The writer is testifying to methods of communist Dictatorship during the Stalinist period of Bulgarian History and to country’s transformation on satellite of U.R.S.S. My Research is based on Gary’s novels “La nuit sera calme” and “Le sens de ma vie”, and on movie “Le Libraire” (“The Bookseller”) of Catherine Bernstein and Assen Vladimirov.

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Cultural Contexts and Masculinity Shifts

Author(s): Florian Andrei Vlad / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Masculinity and men’s studies, initially seen as one particular section of explorations of what it means to be a man, appeared as a secondary field, even if linked to Simone de Beauvoir’s “the first sex.” In de Beauvoir’s feminist manifesto of the second wave, “woman” apparently had an identity of her own, but was only defined as being the absence, the “lack,” the Other, against which man defined himself. The current essay examines the historicity of gender roles and the developing contexts in which perceptions of them and theories about them are largely defined by new contexts for which the activation of hegemonic or feminine masculinities, for example, is more than a reasonable choice. The last section engages with literary responses to masculinity as articulated by Lowell, Vonnegut, and Heller in a less-than-heroic age where significant masculinity shifts emerged in American fiction as well.

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Митологични и фолклорни елементи в юношенския фентъзи роман в Румъния

Author(s): Lora Nenkovska / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

This article will look at two exciting ways to return to the roots of the magical Romanian folk tale and the whole mythological universe in two contemporary Romanian fantasy novels intended for a teenage audience. Both works indicate the revival of the Romanian children’s book and the return to local folklore as a successful strategy to build a magical literary peace that simultaneously recalls “tales, plots, characters” and opens the gates to a new fantasy world. The two authors – Sunziana Popescu and Florin Bican- choose different schemes of “living in a world of fairy tales”. Sunziana Popescu writes a modern fairy tale inhabited by all sorts of mythological images. At the same time, Florin Bican chooses “to weave a meta-fairy tale” from the most popular and favourite Romanian tales but told from the point of view of the faithful helpers of the boy heroes - their whirlwind horses.

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Завръщане в социалистическото минало. Опит за очертаване на една тенденция в новия български роман

Author(s): Mihaela Ilieva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

The paper examines one of the most popular topics in the Bulgarian novel over the last 20 years – the past of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. The text also traces the decades that writers prefer to choose as the background of their plot, and discusses what is the value of the historical period and how authors “return” to it – through the autobiographical or by choosing a specific historical event.

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