Keywords: "Il rischio americano" by Sergio Romano;
Mircea Vasilescu writes an article about a recent book of Sergio Romano, the columnist for Corriere della Sera and Panorama. The author argues about the major international themes such as the war in Afghanistan, terrorism, NATO and EU, the contemporary disputes about the concept of democracy.
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Die Hamburger Autorin und Übersetzerin Gabriele Haefs mit ihren geistreichen Reflexionen über ein norwegisches Kulturpolitikum, dem Pro und Contra der Benennung einer Straße in Oslo nach dem Schriftsteller Knut Hamsun.
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Can books be of help in times of a severe crisis? As concerns Greece the answer is “yes” – under two preconditions: First, the authors have to understand the substance and the effects of the crisis. Second, the citizens have to feel the need to take refuge in literature. In fact, literature and fiction can help to ease survival in difficult times. But, the citizens and most authors in Greece are both unwilling to perceive the crisis. Since its beginning, the modern Greek state has been founded on two columns – Europe and the Balkans. This twofold foundation has been generally most productive for fiction, literature and art. Poets, narrators, stage artists and filmmakers have always tried to build a bridge between the Balkans and Europe. Only since the last decades, a “time of false illusions” has begun and Greek intellectuals have forgotten these important roots and have avoided coming to terms with their country’s past. Greece, within its present most disastrous situation, needs a public discussion about the mistakes that have been made. And, Greece and Europe as a whole are in an urgent need to discuss European values instead of rates and figures only. Writers, creative artists, intellectuals and academics have to break the silence and not leave the public stage to economists and politicians.
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Keywords: bibliographic research; translators; works; authors
Our work is a bibliographic one, for the the period 1850-1918, whose purpose is to discover the interest of the German public for the Romanian literary works, to discover where and when there were published, in German, the Romanian literary works, who are the most important translators of these works and also what Romanian authors have been published in German.
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Keywords: Paris;diary; George Banu; destiny; memories
Paris: it has enough assets to convince you, to attract you, to take you out from your ivory tower, to confound you in a highly positive or negative manner, to trouble you, to turn you into a bundle of questions to which you should then seek the answer, with a cocktail of sensations. Each person is related to Paris according to the experiences that blended, fed and shaped oneself. In this very Paris, contemporary, spectator on several occasions and several months I am trying, as always, to re-define myself: in the middle of the city, in its air, in its noises, in the lapping of the Seine which has fascinated generations of dreamers. And as always I feel guilty that my enthusiasm is not rooted but in the man-made wonders scattered here, on its streets, parks, into the museums and not in its people, not today, not in its present-day flesh, not in the core of today but in the measure in which today is the tomb of a glorious yesterday and much else. It is the discrepancy between the theatre of the city and the theatre of the living, of people. Between the show of the buildings and the human decadence. Between the old perfume of the museums and the scents of the 21st century streets. A world, a mosaic, a Babel with which one tries to re-compose oneself into an absolutely crazy daily rhythm, not before disintegrating first.
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Keywords: change of style; feuilleton; open letters; Listopadový uragán (November hurricane); stylized letters; Dopisy Dubence (Letters to April); postmodern accordion-fold board book; conversational journalism
The article focuses on the last period of Bohumil Hrabal’s (1914–1997) writing, particularly the late 1980s and early 1990s, when he was systematically developing distinctive essays mostly in the form of open letters. His late writing from this period was published in book form in 1990−94. Of his series of short works in prose, one would mention Listopadový uragán (The November hurricane), Aurora na mělčině (Aurora in the shallows), and Večerníčky pro Cassia (TV bedtime stories for Cassius). Of particular interest is Dopisy Dubence (Letters to Dubenka), a collection of stylized letters to April Gifford, an American student of Czech literature and language. Hrabal himself talked about his late writing as ‘literary journalism’. Critics often unflatteringly called these distinctive literary works postmoderně koncipovaná leporela – postmodern accordion-fold board books.
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Keywords: Patrick Modiano; French literature; exclusion; Jew; homosexual; exile;
One of the main messages in Patrick Modiano’s work is compassion for human beings who cannot adapt or adjust to various standards, who live in fear and are most of the time excluded from what is considered to be a “normal” society. The homosexual, the Jew, the exiled are some of the most interesting figures of marginal characters in the Modianian novels (Livret de famille; Villa triste; Pour quetu ne teperdes pas dans le quartier) and our article intends to point out their main characteristics, all of them being characters who live in the shadow of anxiety and delusion.
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Keywords: Rudolf Denk; Thomas Möbius; Buchbesprechung; Dramen- und Theaterdidaktik. Eine Einführung;
Das ist die Buchbesprechung über "Dramen- und Theaterdidaktik. Eine Einführung". Rudolf Denk und Thomas Möbius hat das Buch geschrieben.
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Keywords: roumanité; francophonie; histoire franco-roumaine; identité nationale; identité international
Tout au long de son histoire, la nation roumaine se construit une identité par rapport àelle-même, mais aussi par rapport à l’espace international. Les deux derniers sièclestémoignent de la création et de l’évolution des liens politiques et culturels préférentielsavec la France et l’espace francophone. En débutant par la révolution de 1848 quandtoute une génération se propose de construire un pays roumanophone unitaire, partie del’espace européen occidental (latinité orientale, idéal social occidental), en passant par la Guerre d’Indépendance et les deux guerres mondiales qui renforcent le rapprochement àla culture française, en survivant à l’époque d’isolement communiste, la roumanité secrée encore une identité dans le monde contemporain, le rapport à la francophonie étantun de ses points de référence.
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Keywords: USA; Reagan; Cold War;
This is a review of the Richard S. Conley's book Historical Dictionary of the Reagan-Bush Era, Second edition, Lanham, Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, 463 p.
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Keywords: H.Bonciu; eroticism; Interwar Romanian Literature; Dragoș Silviu Păduraru;
This text is a book review on „H. Bonciu și literatura de scandal” signed by Dragoș Silviu Păduraru. The author states that Dragos Silviu Păduraru fails to justify the contemporary relevance of H. Bonciu, an approach that should invariably go beyond the despotic model of literary history based on pure sursology. Most of the observations and analyzes applied to the writer are simple cover songs of the texts of reception over time, many struggling between them theoretically and conceptually, and whose depth polemics are completely ignored by the author.
More...L’étude essaie de répondre à quelques questions essentielles pour l’avenir de la latinité : peut-on imaginer quelques remakes pour la latinité standard ? Peut-on imaginer des spin-offs de la latinité ? Une latinité updated ? La conclusion est assez pessimiste : la latinité deviendra peut-être une latinitude pour assurer la symétrie et la justice historique par rapport à la négritude, sa soeur cadette.
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Keywords: scris; personaje; literatură; temă;
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Review of: Michael Martens, Im Brand der Welten – Ivo Andrić: Ein europäisches Leben, Wien: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 494 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-552-05960-3 Matthias Dornfeldt / Enrico Seewald (Hrsg.) Kontinuitäten und Brüche – Albanien und die deutschen Staaten 1912-2019 Berlin: Peter Lang 2019 (= Studien des Forschungsverbundes SED-Staat an der Freien Universität Berlin, Bd. 27), 217 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-631-79632-0 Danijel Kežić. Bauen für den Einheitsstaat Die Eisenbahn Belgrad-Bar und die Desintegration des Wirtschaftssystems in Jugoslawien (1952-1976) Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2017 (= Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, Bd. 158), 399 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-11-056888-2
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