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„Dawniej myślałem rzeczy uczynić szalone”. Kilka uwag o idei „Dzieł zebranych” Juliusza Słowackiego

Author(s): Jacek Brzozowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2009

A general outline of the editorial concept of a ‘collected works’ edition, to be possibly adequate to our today’s knowledge of the poet and, as a priority, comprising the entire oeuvre of the Polish Bard (no such complete edition of works by Słowacki has appeared till this very day). Discussed herein are: the overall assumptions of the project, defined as it is as a ‘popular-critical’ edition (with a strong emphasis on ‘critical’); the edition’s content; the arrangement of works (incl. problems concerning ‘original’ alternative redactions); the scope and character of accompanying critical apparatus (notes on the text; dating remarks; variants; editors’ explanatory notes/footnotes).

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Mit bohaterski w twórczości J.R.R. Tolkiena i Stanisława Lema w ujęciu komparatystycznym

Author(s): Marta Kładź / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2009

The subject of this paper’s considerations is actualisation in the output of J.R.R. Tolkien and Stanisław Lem of the structure of a heroic myth based upon the sequence: separation – initiation – return; or: expedition – the key struggle – death – recognition (or, apotheosis). The comparative perspective has drawn out a contrast of two reciprocally opposing models of reality. In Tolkien’s works, a soteriological function fulfilled by the character is revealed, which reappears in a series of internal prefigurations projected by the text. Lem’s thinking produces a different pattern of solutions: the Polish novelist’s characters are immersed in a reality not infrequently founded on identification of contradictory categories, revealing the image of the world as a "coincidentia oppositorum".

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Mieczysław Kamieński – testament żołnierza

Author(s): Marek Troszyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2009

Born in Lvov and brought up in France, a son of a Polish colonel, Mieczysław Kamieński set off in 1859 on a voluntary fighting route in the Italian campaign. He eventually died in Milan of injuries sustained during the battle of Magenta. The Polish Library in Paris (BPP 480) keeps an extant text expressing the father’s reflections on the life and warfare deeds of his son. Childhood and youth-years memories are interspersed with a general afterthought of a soldier, former adherent of Towianism. The father, watching at the hospital by his dying son, asks him, out of soldier’s curiosity, about his attitude to killing. Quite unexpectedly, the reply given by the son becomes a powerful coda crowning this ‘unfinished’ text.

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The grotesque in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God

Author(s): Mădălina Larisa Kimak / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

This paper aims at analysing Cormac McCarthy’s novel Child of God through Mikhail Bakhtin’s perspective on the grotesque. Bakhtin’s theory is used as a bond between the text and the context, namely the story of the horrific murderer Lester Ballard and the Southern Gothic genre. The purpose of this endeavour is to illustrate that the combination between a synchronic and a diachronic approach to the novel reveals that the text focuses not so much on framing the social tensions of the South, but on creating a tale about humanity’s capacity for evil in general. This way, the analysis shows that the novel can be integrated into the Southern Gothic genre, but it is in no way limited in its interpretation by this classification.

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Panorama di collaborazioni internazionali

Author(s): Przemysław Strożek / Language(s): Italian Issue: 7/2016

The article focuses on the reception of Enrico Prampolini’s work in Polish Avant-garde circles in the 1920s and 1930s. It shows Prampolini as a central figure in “networking” between artists and illustrates how such “networking” phenomena resulted in the popularisation of Italian Futurism in Poland and Polish Avant-garde in Italy. It highlights the range of Prampolini’s contacts with Poland, especially with the «Zwrotnica» circle, Jalu Kurek and Jan Brzękowski, who promoted his theatrical productions and paintings. The outcome of these contacts was most of all a good knowledge of Futurist scenography in Poland, an invitation for Polish scenographers to take part in the “Triennale” which Prampolini organized in 1936 in Milan, and his cooperation with the “a.r.” collection of Modern Art in Łódź. The painting entitled Tarantella (1920), which Prampolini offered to Brzękowski and was installed in Łódź in 1931, testifies to this important collaboration.

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The Polish Cyborg

Author(s): Emiliano Ranocchi / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2016

Far from being enthusiastic “modernolatry” of Italian futurism, Polish futurism demonstrates an attitude of ambivalence toward modernity. This is particularly evident in the Polish approach to that very synecdoche of modernity which is the machine. In his essay of 1923, the leader of the group, Bruno Jasieński, compares the fetishistic cult of the machine, which characterizes the Italian approach, with the utilitarian one of the Russians, exemplified by a quote from Majakovskij. To these two propositions, as a sort of Hegelian synthesis, he adds a Polish one consisting in the conception of the machine as a prosthesis, a continuation of the human body. Thereby he introduces an idea later known as “cyborg”. The category of cyborg is also useful to understand the work of another today almost forgotten Polish writer of the Twenties, Jerzy Sosnkowski. He was the author of a short novel, A Car, You and Me (Love of Machines), in which a whole chapter concerns the chief character’s dystopian nightmare wherein machines take control over the world. The third section of the essay deals with the idea of man a machine – an old, 18th century conception, which became actual anew in the 20th century and whose traces we can findc among others in a well-known poem by Tytus Czyżewski. Thirty years before N. Wiener, Polish modernists seem to have sensed the social, political and anthropological implications of the mechanization of work.

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Il futurismo polacco nella critica letteraria dell’epoca

Author(s): Andrea Fernando de Carlo / Language(s): Italian Issue: 7/2016

The article analyses the critical voices raised against the young poets and artists who promoted Futurism in Poland during the first half of the Twentieth century.

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ІНТЕРМЕДІАЛЬНА КОМУНІКАЦІЯ ПОЕЗІЇ ПЕТРА КАРМАНСЬКОГО З ВІЗУАЛЬНИМИ ВИДАМИ МИСТЕЦТВА (ЖИВОПИСОМ, СКУЛЬПТУРОЮ, АРХІТЕКТУРОЮ)

Author(s): Svitlana Bortnyk / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 1/2017

The inter-artistic correlations of Peter Karmansky's poetry with painting, sculpture and architecture are studied, an attempt is made to classify them. Intermediality is examined as the synchronic projection of the writer's intertextual poetics. The author uses the classification of literary and musical borrowings, developed by Stephen P. Scher, and adapts it to artistic interactions of literature with visual arts. The most productive are verbal forms of engagement of painting, sculptures, and architecture, which, in the end, are reduced to an artistic phenomenon, defined by the term ekphrasis. The verbal type is mainly realized through hypotyposis, when one can observe the vividity of the writer’s style, his use of colors and landscape imaging. The projection of visual genres of arts onto the literary ones is limited to literary-painting correlations. The author have found traces of synthetic variants and conditional forms of inter-artistic interaction.

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ФОЛЬКЛОРНО-МІФОЛОГІЧНИЙ ОБРАЗ ЧОРТА В УКРАЇНСЬКІЙ РОМАНТИЧНІЙ ПРОЗІ

Author(s): Tetiana Danyliuk-Tereshchuk / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 1/2017

The article reveals and analyzes the interpretation uniqueness of folklore and mythological image of the devil in the prose works by G. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, P. Kulish, M. Kostomarov, O. Storozhenko. The study sheds the light on the image genesis, functions, features, semantic peculiarities of the character in oral tradition and authors’ perception of it. The writers are fairy original in creating the literary image of the devil and are not confined to only one motive (“bargain with the devil” (faustian bargain), “selling one’s soul to the devil”, “Devil guards the treasures”, “devil fears the cross/holy water”, etc.). The authors synthesize the material according to their own individual aesthetic conception. Under these conditions, the archetypal for most cultures image of the devil has gained the semantic polyphony of a true literary character, which in the terms of the principle of confrontation/ interaction with the world of humans, has manifested itself in all significant ideological dimensions. The latter implies social pragmatics and philosophical importance, moral-ethical codes and multidimensional nature of art. Using the language of associations and mythological contaminations romanticists proclaim eternal categories of human entity (life - death, good - evil, sin - atonement).

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РОДИНА ДРАГОМАНОВИХ-КОСАЧIВ У КУЛЬТУРНО-ГРОМАДСЬКОМУ ПРОСТОРІ ВОЛИНІ ХІХ – НА ПОЧАТКУ ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ

Author(s): Valentina Petrovych,Irina Charikova / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 3/2017

The article is devoted to the examination of the role of the Drahomanov-Kosach family in the cultural and public life of Volyn at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. The authors characterize educational activity of the members of the family in Ukraine ungoverned and enslaved by Russian tzarism. The family serves as a source for the analysis of the state of education of the Ukrainian elite. It was established that the artistic acheievements, beneficial and active public position of Olena Pchilka, Mykhailo Drahomaniv, Lesya Ukrainka and Klymentij Kvitka are the models and an object of interest for many scientists, researchers and usual citizens. It was proved in the article that intellectual and artistic domain of the family are still of great importance and topicality.

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NONFICTION NOVEL "IN COLD BLOOD" BY TRUMAN CAPOTE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE AMERICAN NEW JOURNALISM OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Author(s): Yakobchuk-Chyrva Yuliia / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

Truman Streckfus Capote (1924 – 1984) was an American author, screenwriter and playwright. His works defined the specific character of the American literature in the second half of the twentieth century. The article deals with the attempts of studying the nonfiction novel in the light of the phenomenon of New Journalism of the second half of the twentieth century. The article stresses that the author created nonfiction novel using artistic writing based on realism and fiction imagination. The article deals with the premises of the author’s idea of the novel and the essence of the author’s artistic innovations is defined. The novel combines documentary, social psychological, novel account of the absurd, cruel and even motiveless murder.

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UTOPIJNE ŚWIATY IGNACEGO KRASICKIEGO W KONTEKŚCIE FILOZOFII SPOŁECZNEJ OŚWIECENIA

Author(s): Kamila Zukovska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

The essay presents an analysis of the philosophical and anthropological context of the utopia presented by Ignacy Krasicki in his novel Przypadki Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego (The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom). The utopia of Nipu is treated as a literary example of the Enlightenment society, in which there occurs a clash of human values. This conflict resists the irreconcilable, traditional axiology of the author and the Western system social philosophy of the times. That is why Krasicki’s utopia constitutes a unique vision of a world which – contrary to the logic of the Enlightenment – cannot be rational and harmonious.

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The Goncourt Prize-winning “Roman Nègre”. About Kosztolányi’s Hungarian Translation of René Maran’s Batouala

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The Goncourt Prize-winning “Roman Nègre”. About Kosztolányi’s Hungarian Translation of René Maran’s Batouala

Author(s): Sára Tábor / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

In 1921, René Maran became the first black author to receive the Prix Goncourt for his novel, Batouala. Just one year later, Dezsõ Kosztolányi translated the work to Hungarian. At the beginning of the 20th century, most Hungarians were unfamiliar with the culture of the Black Continent, and they could not even distinguish between Africans and African American people. Therefore, Kosztolányi not only had to deal with linguistic problems, but he also needed to introduce a completely new culture, otherwise unknown to the wider public. This essay presents the social and political differences between the Hungarian and the French audience, and by comparing the original work and the translation, it examines the linguistic techniques and the translational strategies Kosztolányi used to adapt the work to the expectations of the Hungarian readers.

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DICTATORSHIP, INFANTILISATION, AND THE FOCALIZATION OF A CHILD: ZSUZSA RAKOVSZKY’S A HULLÓCSILLAG ÉVE (THE YEAR OF THE FALLING STAR) AND FERENC BARNÁS’ KILENCEDIK (THE NINTH)

Author(s): Edit Zsadányi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

In my paper, I call attention to a literary trend of contemporary Hungarian prose fiction, in which the communist past is narrated from a child’s point of view. I will concentrate on the relation among the focalization of the narrative through the eyes of a child, the theme of dictatorship, and present-tense narration. I will relate my approach to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s ideas on the problem of representing disempowered people, in other words, representing the subaltern. I take the narration of a child situated in a fictional dictatorial time as a special case of giving voice to the subaltern. In the first part of my paper I will address the theoretical and narratological problem of giving voice and understanding the subordinated figures. The second part consists of the analysis of the novels by Zsuzsa Rakovszky and Ferenc Barnás. I will argue that the communist past is a counterfeit referent since it is narrated by an unreliable child narrator. The object of representation is not the historical past but it is itself the perspective of the child through which we come to understand a hidden pattern of dictatorship: infantilization.

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SIX SECRETS DU COQ DE MADAME CLÉOPHAS (PRÉFACE À LA TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE, À PARAÎTRE EN 2013 AUX ÉDITIONS CIRCÉ)

Author(s): András Kányádi / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2013

This short preface, written on the occasion of the publication in French of Gyula Krúdy’s novel Le Coq de madame Cléophas (Kleofásné kakasa), explains some of the peculiarities of the text while also mimicking its structure. Centering on six fundamental aspects of Krúdy’s writing, this essay make six incursions into the complex universe of this great Hungarian writer, who passed away 80 years ago.

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LA « SAISON EN ENFER » DE SÁNDOR PETŐFI

Author(s): Guillaume Métayer / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2013

This collection of poems composed in 1845–46 offers the French reader a glance at a less familiar side of the work of Sándor Petõfi, marked by a strain of Romantic pessimism. The translator also finds in these poems the same radicalness (this time in the hopelessness) that characterizes the better known ideas of the revolutionary. The biblical references and the influence of Nietzsche (an influence acknowledged by Petõfi himself) placed the poet (and Hungary itself perhaps) at the crossroads of the shift to the modern.

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DESTOUCHES SEMMELWEIS, CÉLINE

Author(s): János Szávai / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2013

In 1924 Céline, or Louis Destouches by his given name, defended his doctoral dissertation (written to obtain his medical credentials in France) on the life and work of Semmelweis. In 1936, very soon after the publication of his novel Mort à crédit, Céline published the text of his dissertation again under his penname together in a single volume alongside his anti-Soviet text Mea culpa. The subsequent editions of the text (1977, 1999, then in Hungary in 2012) have given readers a chance to reassess the author and work. The referential nature of the text has continuously evolved. The present interpretation approaches it as a work of fiction, and as a sort of prolegomena of Céline’s later Romanesque cycle.

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THE TEXTOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF PROVERBS IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS OF HUNGARIAN PEASANTS FROM ROMANIA

Author(s): Katalin Lajos / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2012

The phraseological units, together with their specific system of considerations and means, are analysed by several linguistic and extra-linguistic sciences. The fact that the phraseological level of language proves to be analysable from the point of view of many branches of science, also has the consequence that within each of these researches there is the opportunity for interdisciplinary research, and sometimes the use of all these points of view is inevitable. This paper is part of my research examining the phraseme-use of first of all non-literary autobiographies of the twentieth century Hungarian literature from Romania, using means of linguistics and folklore. The paper tries to map the typology and variants of phraseological units in one of the written versions of Transylvanian Hungarian living speech. The examined texts are parts of folk written records, they bear the features of living language and, in spite of their topic and stylistic differences, they form a well-definable special text group. In this paper I am examining the textual functions of proverbs and linguistic configurations of proverbial nature in order to emphasize my earlier observations connected to proverbs with the concrete analysis of a text group. After a short revision of the referring literature concerning the examined material, I am trying to answer the following questions: 1. What kind of textual functions do proverbs have? 2. How does the context influence the meaning of the proverbs and their way of use? 3. What kind of non-standard variants of proverbs are to be found, what kind of theoretical observations can be formulated in connection with them?

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VOCABULAIRES MONGOLS DES POLYGLOTTES DE YEMEN

Author(s): Louis Ligeti,György Kara / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2012

Pendant son dernier voyage en Proche-Orient M. Tibor Halasi-Kun a fait une découverte importante : il est tombé sur les vocabulaires polyglottes appartenant au riche héritage littéraire des Rassoulides de Yemen. Le manuscrit comprenait pas moins de trois polyglottes : un pentaglotte, un tétraglotte et un triglotte. Dans tous ces vocabulaires c’est l’arabe qui régit le reste. Chaque feuillet du manuscrit contient douze colonnes. Ce qui est assez insolite dans les manuscrits arabes, sur le recto les colonnes vont de gauche à droit, et sur le verso, de droite à gauche ; il s’en suit que la première colonne extérieure est occupé toujours par l’arabe.

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MYSTICAL LOVE AS THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT. ESCHATOLOGY IN JALĀL AL-DĪN RŪMĪ’S DĪVĀN-I KABĪR

Author(s): Ferenc Csirkés / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2011

The paper analyses eschatological motifs in a few poems from Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s Dīvān. In them the poet integrates two seemingly disparate, perhaps antagonistic themes: the historicity of the Last Judgement, the end of all times, and the fundamental ahistoricity of the mystical experience. Rūmī handles the motif of the Resurrection and the Last Judgement as a poetic topos or as an allegory of the mystical experience, focusing on the tension and interaction between these two thematic elements.

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