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Discovering of Richard Weiner

Objevování Richarda Weinera

Author(s): Roman Kanda / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 6/2008

This article deals with the critical reception of Czech poet, prose-writer and journalist Richard Weiner (1884–1937). Registered changes of the contemporary and later interpretations of Weiner’s texts – i. e. the interpretations published in thirtieth, fortieth, and sixtieth years of the 20th century – were in accord with the historical changes of the literary context. Weiner was described as a poet of metaphysical emptiness (F. X. Šalda) or an abstract poet (Jindřich Chalupecký). His work was interpreted in several contexts: expressionistic, existencial even Christian-spiritual (Ivan Slavík). Weiner anticipated experimental works of the authors of the 1960s (e. g. Věra Linhartová) too.

Book Reviews

Recenze

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2006

Jan Holzer Fischer, Josef Ludvík: Krise demokracie. 1. Svoboda. 2. Řád. Praha: Karolinum, 2005, přetisk prvního vydání (v Brně 1933), 361 stran, ISBN 80-246-0658-5 Tomáš Hudeček, Anna Matušková Malíř Jiří; Marek, Pavel a kol.: Politické strany I. 1861 – 1938. Politické strany II. 1938 – 2004. Vývoj politických stran a hnutí v českých zemích a Československu. Brno: Nakladatelství Doplněk, 2005, 1030-1826 stran, ISBN: 80-7239-179-8 Dana Prudíková Perottino Michel: Francouzský politický systém. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2005, 335 stran, ISBN: 80-86429-48-2

The Second Level of Torment

Druhý stupěň trýzně

Author(s): Milan Suchomel / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2-3/2006

Keywords: Hodrová; Daniela; Červenka; Miroslav; fiction

Inspired by, among other things, Miroslav Červenka’s concept of the fictional world, this article is an analysis of Daniela Hodrová’s work of fiction, Kukly, as a composition of pictures, which, in and through its fragmentariness, presents us with a special fictional continuum, wiping away boundaries, for example, between characters, the historical and the fictional, and the living and the dead.

Playing with the Ich-form in Bohumil Hrabal's work

Hra s ich-formou v díle Bohumila Hrabala

Author(s): Lubomír Doležel / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: Bohumil Hrabal; narrative modes; Ich‑form; Er‑form; text after death

The paper is based on the assumption that the first-person narrative (Ich-form) in modern fiction is not an imitation of oral story-telling, but a special literary mode of narration. As such, it has produced a broad range of variants. The paper follows these variants in the prose fiction of Bohumil Hrabal, who practised Ich-form narrative throughout his creative life. The composition of the paper does not follow a chronological, but rather a logical order of variants, ranging from the “oral stream” of Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age through “narrator substitution” in the autobiographical trilogy to the “text after death” of Closely Watched Trains (and a version of Too Loud a Solitude). The paper offers a theoretical explanation of the rise of these variants in claiming that in modern literature the Ich-form underwent a process of conventionalization. In this process it took over some basic features of its competitor, the “objective” Er-form. A similar process can be observed in the evolution of the Er-form, but this time the narration moves from the “objective” base to the “subjective” variants. In modern prose fiction, both Er-form and Ich-form offer a rich variety of narrative modes, unavailable in the prose of the preceding periods. Bohumil Hrabal’s “playing” with the Ich-form contributed substantially to this major innovation

Can we find the idea of the national in the national theatre only?

Môže byť idea národného iba v Národnom?

Author(s): Peter Himič / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 03/2010

The Complexity of the Religious Consciousness

Complexité de la conscience religieuse

Author(s): Jean Greisch / Language(s): French / Issue: 30/2005

De la perspective herméneutique en philosophie de la religion, on peut tirer un tableau contrasté des données de toute conscience religieuse, même athée. Entre appartenance et mystique, sans écarter humour et folie, cette conscience ainsi comprise dit quelque chose de notre rapport aux réalités contemporaines les plus sombres .

MUSIC AND DANCE AS A WHOLE

MUSIC AND DANCE AS A WHOLE

Author(s): Rossella Marisi / Language(s): English / Issue: 07+08/2014

Keywords: music, dance, synchronization, coexistence, visual aspects of music, musical aspects of dance

There is a deep relationship between music and dance, because music performance may be considered as a kind of dance, usually performed by the instrumentalist’s arms, hands and fingers, and the movements performed by dancers may be considered as a source of sound and music. In performing works belonging to specific genres dancers and music performers interact, whereas in other works one kind of professionals fulfills all the required tasks. This article aims at exploring how the relationship between dance and music evolved over time, highlighting the most interesting genres and forms based on these two art forms.

Passions and Virtues in the Teachings of John of Damascus

Patimi şi virtuţi în învăţătura Sfântului Ioan Damaschin

Author(s): Teodor (Theodoros) Zisis / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 07/2012

Keywords: Sacred Parallels; dogmatic works; Philokalia; passions; virtues

This article attempts to succinctly present John of Damascus’ teachings about passions and virtues, as well as the papers where these teachings are presented. In the fi rst part, the author refers to the paper Sacred Parallels, considered by scholars the Holy Father’s essential work with regard to moral-ascetic teachings. Nothing more than a large anthology of Bible texts and patristic texts, the paper is not representative for the saint’s teachings. The author then presents the moral-ascetic elements from John of Damascus’ theological works, especially in his dogmatic writings. Through this step, it is once again acknowledged the fact that, in the Orthodox faith, the dogmatic and the moral attitude go hand in hand. The last part is specifi cally concerned with the moral-ascetic works of the saint, On the Eight Spirits of Evil and On Virtues and Vices. The author presents the contents of these two short writings, as well as the most important ideas, with a special focus on the second work, included by Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain in his Philokalia. Through this, John of Damascus – par excellence, the dogmatic mind of our Church – earned himself a consecrated place among the ascetic and neptic Church Fathers.

New Literature from Mircea Cărtărescu, Catalin Dorian Florescu, György Konrad, Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Neue Literatur von Mircea Cărtărescu, Catalin Dorian Florescu, György Konrád, László Krasznahorkai

Author(s): Gerhard Schüsselbauer / Language(s): German / Issue: 01-02/2008

Thériault – un Self-Made-Man et le Grand Nord

Thériault – un Self-Made-Man et le Grand Nord

Author(s): Dana Puiu / Language(s): French / Issue: 1/2013

Keywords: Theriault; inuk; self made man; reality school;

Theriault’s work about 40 novels and short stories was rewarded with the Molson Prize (1971) and Athanase-David Prize (1979). Yves Theriault is a mythical character swigging between the reality and the legend of his own mystified autobiography. As he became a self-made man he adopted the school of life. He passionately embraced jobs, working hard till exhaustion. He was a salesman, a journalist, a radio reporter, an advertiser, a script writer, for the National Office a Film Radio Canada. His stubborn will to earn his existence by working, explains the fact he embraced such genres as literatures for children, short stories, detective novels, radio plays. His characters, instinctual human beings a torn by contradictory patience in there struggle with the unforgiving Nature of the Canadian North. In his about 30 novels he stages solitary characters and marginal Indians Métis, Jews who are in conflict with the social order. As a talented story-teller, Thériault tries to explore also the human subconscious.

The Anatomy Lesson

Lectia de anatomie

Author(s): Graţiela Benga-Țuțuianu / Language(s): / Issue: 05/2015

Regionalism, multiculturalism and multilingualism in recent Central European literature

Regionalismus, plurikulturalita a vícejazyčnost nové středoevropské literatury

Author(s): Renata Makarska / Language(s): / Issue: 6/2014

Keywords: Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki; Jan Vrak; multilingualism; hybrid literature; Central Europe; Czech literature; Polish literature; translation; multiculturalism

This article focuses on textual multilingualism in contemporary Polish and Czech literature. This kind of multilingualism (also called linguistically mixed or hybrid literature) is interpreted as an expression of the new ethnic, cultural and linguistic mix in Central Europe. This article presents a summary of research to date into multilingualism. Taking the novel Obyčejné věci by Jan Vrak and lyric poetry by Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki as examples of the forms in which this phenomenon has appeared at the turn of the 20th and 21st century. It also raises the question of the translation and translatability of textual multilingualism.

ZAKUŤANSKÁ, Michaela. Prešovská trilógia.

ZAKUŤANSKÁ, Michaela. Prešovská trilógia.

Author(s): Lucia Lejková / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 04/2017

Review of: ZAKUŤANSKÁ, Michaela. Prešovská trilógia. Bratislava : Občianske združenie Vlna (Knižná edícia časopisu Vlna) a Vydavateľstvo Drewo a srd, 2017. 148 s. ISBN 978- 80-89550-31-9.

Translation traps, reading distractions. A comparative analysis of some of the "Captain Conan’s" translations

Pièges de la traduction, fourvoiements dans la lecture. Analyse comparée de quelques traductions du roman "Capitaine Conan"

Author(s): Diana Dinică / Language(s): French / Issue: 5/2016

Keywords: realia; the untranslatable; misleading the reader; involuntary textual alterations; cultural confusions; "Captain Conan";

Nowadays, we are in permanent contact with what is foreign; thus, translation becomes one of the cornerstones of communication. However, we are often faced with textual forms more or less untranslatable, which can easily lead to a faulty interpretation of the message received. But given that the untranslatable is multifaceted, it is impossible for us to find a universally applicable solution. Moreover, the untranslatable can be, quite often, doubled by extra textual factors, which can transform the prosy translation into a titanic task.

The Story of Maturation and Metamorphosis. On Jaroslav Novák’s novel debut

Příběh zrání a proměny. Nad románovým debutem Jaroslava Nováka

Author(s): David Kroča / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: Jaroslav Novák; Czech literature; Teenage boys fiction; Educational novel; Interpretation;

The paper presents selected findings of the author’s long-term research of Czech 20th century teenage boys fiction. It concentrates on the work of Jaroslav Novák (31st January 1894 − 14th March 1965), born 120 years ago. The paper analyses Novák’s literary debut Skautská srdce (Boy Scout’s Hearts; 1921), answering the question whether and to what extent Novák was able to contribute to the innovation of the poetics of Czech adventure novel. In the fiction text under scrutiny, features of educational and initiation novel are identified, and the initiation myth of Novák’s novel is compared with the fictions both of his contemporary Jaroslav Foglar and today writer Miloš Zapletal.

Literature translated from Dutch in the Czech publishing house Družstevní práce during the Nazi occupation

Literature translated from Dutch in the Czech publishing house Družstevní práce during the Nazi occupation

Author(s): Wilken Engelbrecht / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2021

Keywords: Czech translations; Dutch and Flemish literature; Publishing house Družstevní práce; Censorship; Archives;

This article uses the archives of the Czech publishing house Družstevní práce during World War II, which give insight into how certain works were selected as DP struggled to maintain its identity. Between the World Wars, DP published several Dutch and Flemish authors, but the number of translated works from Dutch grew considerably in the 1940s since Dutch-language literature was one of the few literatures allowed during the Nazi occupation. Despite the fact that the Nazi authorities exerted great pressure to publish Nazi-friendly literature, DP managed to avoid publishing such books by using officially acceptable Dutch, Flemish and Scandinavian works as a political compromise.

The Romanian Village and Ernest Bernea’s sociological perspective

The Romanian Village and Ernest Bernea’s sociological perspective

Author(s): Ovidiana Bulumac / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: Romanian sociology;rural sociology;Romanian phenomenon;peasant civilisation;crisis;

The article focuses upon the issue of the “Romanian phenomenon” in the light of Ernest Bernea’s theoretical contributions. The description of the concept itself, the suitable method of research and identification, as well as the peasant contributions to the social universe become, in this case, relevant to the hereby discussion. The Romanian phenomenon is part of a much larger theoretical construction, the one of the “peasant civilisation”, also developed by Bernea throughout the years, that contains a complex and complete definition, clear directory lines (in terms of space and time specificities), as well as a selection of the transformations that occurred during the period of modernity, understood as a spiritual, cultural, social and economical crisis.

Lucian Blaga. About religion, myth and magic or a new interpretation of the idea of truth and lies in the extramoral sense

Lucian Blaga. Despre religie, mit și magie sau o nouă interpretare a ideii de adevăr și minciună în sens extramoral

Author(s): Mihail M. Ungheanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: mystery; culture; extramoral lie; truth as ilusion; relativism;

The basic idea of this text is that the philosophical work of Lucian Blaga represents a new point of view in the philosophy of culture but also in the understanding of man as a cultural being. It also introduces a new concept of culture, which is defined as the repeated attempts to unveil the mystery, which as horizont defines the human being qua human being. Philosophy, mythology, theology, art, science are such attempts. None of these branches are superior to the other, and none of them is able to reveal the mystery as such. In a sense, this view is akin to the view expressed by Nietzsche in his text on lie in extramoral sense, though Blaga reintroduces the relationship with a divine principle of existence. All those attempts to revelate the mystery are akin to the extramoral lies that increase the value of human existence and the power of its spirit.

Repetition and Inner Speech in Krappʼs "Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett

Répétition et discours intérieur à propos de "La dernière bande" de Samuel Beckett

Author(s): Dominique Marin / Language(s): French / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: inner discourse; repetition; epanorthosis; self; residue;

According to Bruno Clement, epanorthosis is present throughout Beckett’s works. His play Krapp’s Last Tape might be its major representation. Epanorthosis is a literary device which consists in reconsidering what one has just expressed, either to express faint differences, to weaken it, even to go back on it or, on the contrary, to express it even more strongly . Another literary technique contemporaneous with Freud’s discovery of the unconscious, the inner discourse is an inherent part of the structure of the play. What is repeated when one says to oneself: “I told myself…?” Who is speaking? To what extent is it possible to say “myself”? Krapp’s Last Tape, this long inner discourse, read here step by step, allows to determine what hinders the one who speaks in saying what they are trying to say: their obscure part of jouissance, that is absent from language but serves the social link.

ABOUT THE NOVELS OF DANILO KIŠ

ABOUT THE NOVELS OF DANILO KIŠ

Author(s): Tatijana Petrika / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 21/2020

Keywords: Kiš; novels; childhood; father; time;

In this paper, I set out to conduct research on Danilo Kiš's novels, namely, in chronological order, as published. From the Attic to the Encyclopedia of the Dead. At the same time, the emphasis is on the Family Trilogy or The Family Cycle which includes Kiš's three novels, The Early Sufferings, The Garden, the Ashes and the Hourglass.