Keywords: Art of translating; translation of J R R Tolkien's book Lord of the Rings into Romanian; traductology;
Irina Horea has translated J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of Rings. Starting from her own experience, she discusses the problems of translations and makes a few theoretical considerations on the „art of translating”.
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The article contains book reviews. The review authors and titles of reviewed book are listed below in the original language. The Breakup Of The Soviet Union, By Václav Veber Every Jew is a Zionist, and Every Zionist is a Spy! – The Story of the Distribution of Social Support, by Martin Šmok Brothers in Arms – The Pollack Brothers In The Ranks Of The Czechoslovak Overseas Army in the West, by Jan Machala Station Expo-67 – The ŠtB at the Montreal World’s Fair, by Michal Miklovič
More...Keywords: Croatian literature; dictatorship; imaginary space; satire; politics; conviviality/dominance
The paper A Balkan-Universal dystopia – Miroslav Krleža, Banquet in Blithuania analyzes an imaginary demonstrative space, the Blithuania, speaking about the dictator typology and about the dictatorship in tonalities of political satire. The novel-essay Banquet in Blithuania by the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža is the last part of the trilogy of the human condition (moral, esthetical); the two others – The Return of Philip Latinovicz (the status of the total artist) and On the Edge of Reason (the moral condition of the artist suffocated by the social hypocrisy). The signification of the title sends to an anthropological symbolization of the word ‘banquet’, because it’s not about the conviviality, but about a perpetual ritual of dominance in the power field, supposing an abhorrence for liberty, for individual choices, for broadmindedness. The imaginary space built by the Croatian writer transcends a geographical space, curdling the Balkans, the Central Europe and the Occident.
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The article contains papers from miscellaneous events. Authors and titles (czech/english) are listed bellow. Mirek Vodrážka: O škodlivosti historie pro život / On how bad history is for life Petr Blažek: Portál o Janu Palachovi / A portal about Jan Palach Adam Hradilek: Vladimir Bukovskij v Praze / Vladimir Bukovsky in Prague Neela Winkelmann-Heyrovská: Putovní výstava Totalita v Evropě / Travelling exhibition Totalitarianism in Europe Anna Macourková: Prezentace „Hnědé knihy“ / Presentation "Brown Books" Jan Machala: Centrum Malach oslavilo třetí rok činnosti / The centre Malach celebrated the third anniversary of its existence Pavel Švec: Praha objektivem tajné policie v Mnichově / Prague through the Lens of the Secret Police in Munich
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Keywords: liberalisation; deregulation; social reform projects;
The term of "Liberalisation" is often used in a generalizing way and without being scrutinised. Helmut Wiesental as well, in his essay »Truth and Democracy« (Kommune Nr. 4/2004), tends to unilaterally narrow the meaning this topos, as the author of this article is arguing in his reply. Speaking about self-responsibility will not be enough unless the very aim of economic activity is not included into the discourse. Der Begriff der »Liberalisierung« wird oft pauschalisierend verwendet und ohne ihn zu hinterfragen. Auch Helmut Wiesenthal neige, so unser Autor, in seinem Aufsatz »Wahrheit und Demokratie« (»Kommune« 4/04) zu einseitiger Engführung dieses Topos. Selbstverantwortung sei zu wenig, wenn vom Ziel des Wirtschaftens nicht gesprochen werde; und zu wenig sei auch der blanke Reduktionismus auf das Wachstum des Geldes und der Arbeit für Geld und die Etablierung eines »genetifizierenden« Diskurses.
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The authors make an attempt at a multidimensional description of Ciała Sienkiewicza. Studia o płci i przemocy by Ryszard Koziołek. Above all, they point to cognitive values of the description perspective of the works by the author of Trilogy approved of by the researcher, which definitely diverges from the already-known methodologically traditionalistic achievements connected with Sienkiewiczology. The work by Koziołek gains recognition for being homogeneous in terms of research methods, interpretatively inventive and in the form of a fantastic academic lecture.
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Reviews of Mircea Cartarescu - "Orbitor"; Gabriela Adamesteanu "Intalnirea" Polirom, 2007 (2nd edition); Anca Maria Mosora - "Reality Game Show", Editura Humanitas, 2007; Ana-Maria Sandu - "Din amintirile unui Chelbasan", 2003; Hellmut Seiler "Pădurea de interdicţii" (Editura Limes, 2007)
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Keywords: Alexandre Dumas’ bi-centenary;
The occasion of the Alexandre Dumas’ bi-centenary is an opportunity for Mariana Net to bring into discussion some fragments of an initiatic essence very rarely included in the many translations or editions of “The Three Musketeers”.
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More...Interviu cu scriitoarea germană Katja Lange-Müller
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Mit der Darstellung der übersetzerischen Arbeit des kroatischen Schriftstellers und Übersetzers Milan Begović an Hofmannsthals Elektra werden einige Überlegungen zu Themen der interkulturellen Literaturvermittlung und des Literaturübersetzens angestellt.
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Keywords: Jurij Brězan; Original Letters; Publishig House Volk und Welt; Verlag Volk und Welt; Briefe; Upper Sorbian; obersorbisch
More...Review of: Nicolae Coande,"fundatura homer", Dacia Publishing House, Cluj, 2002. Gerhard Wehr,"Doi giganti: Jung si Steiner", Trei Publishing House, Bucuresti, 2002. Lucia Terzea Ofrim "Ce mi-e drag nu mi-e urit. O antropologie a emotiei", Paideia Publishing House Bucuresti, 2002. Lucian Boia, "Romania ţara de frontieră a Europei, "Humanitas" Publishing House, 2002.
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Keywords: obituary; Miroslav Kárný; biography; Czech Jews; bibliography; Terezin; Shoa; Holocaust; historians;
The introductory essay of Jaroslava Milotová introduces the life and work of Miroslav Kárný (the entire 2002 volume is a festschrift in his honour). Karny was a doyen of the Czech Holocaust research; among many others, he founded the Terezin Initiative Institute and its yearbook, Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente. Born in an assimilated Czech Jewish family, he enrolled at the Charles University to study history. Lifelong an engaged leftist, he joined then Communist circles. As early as 1941 he was deported to the Terezin ghetto, where he met his wife and future collaborator, Margita Krausová. After surviving Auschwitz and Dachau (cf. “Sieben Monate in Kaufering”), he returned to Czechoslovakia, cooperated at the building of a new “better” society, was persecuted anew during the Slansky trials. Only after 1968 he had the occasion to start his lifelong vocation: researching the Czech Holocaust. After much struggle with the Communist regime, time after 1989 brought new possibilities, which Kárný was keen to use, for example travels to archives abroad or the establishment of monumental Terezin prisoners database. The essay is accompanied by a bibliography of his works.
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Keywords: diary; behaviour; literature; family; conflict; psychoanalysis; identity; education; conflict; sacrifice;
The purpose of this paper is to show that as unfortunate and miserable as life might have been for the young Franz Kafka, it granted him a place of his own among the writers of masterpieces in universal literature. And even though we avoid indulging in establishing connections between the biography of the Czech writer and Huxley’s or Dostoievski’s biography or literary works, we shall examine a series of images fulfilling a compensating function, pertaining to a psychological register Franz Kafka could not escape from. By way of consequence, whilst writing he succeeded, as a first therapeutic stage, in overcoming his frustrations and unhappiness experienced within his own family, who made him suffer from low self-esteem all throughout his life.
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Keywords: falsifiability; corroboration; problematization; dogmatic method; minus-knowledge; instatic intellect; ecstatic intellect; mystery;
In the proposed research there is a comparative analysis of two conceptions – of the English thinker Karl R. Popper (1902- 1994) and of the Romanian thinker Lucian Blaga (1895 – 1961), thinkers who launched the idea of a new model of knowledge and that would ultimately help to establish, to outline a possible model of the efficiency of the process of scientific creation, of advancement in knowledge, of the discovery of the new, of progress in the cognitive aspect in the last instance.
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Keywords: question; logos; open concept; becoming; being;
The article presents Constantin Noica's theory on the philosophical virtues of the Romanian language that allowed it to shape a specific model of Being.
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