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History, parahistory, irony – Spanish historical novel in the postmodern time

Historie, parahistorie, ironie – španělský historický román v dobách postmoderny

Author(s): Jiří Chalupa / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 4/2010

Keywords: Spanish Literature. Historical Novel. Postmodern Novel. Postmodern Philosophy and Aesthetics. Irony. Demythization.

The paper deals with the methods and the strategies used by Spanish authors of postmodern historical novels to relativize the historic Truths. Instead of the proved dogmatic categories, serving as supports of the traditional historical novel for many a generation, some authors, as E. Mendoza, J. Eslava Galán or A. Pérez-Reverte use original postmodern approaches, e.g. the generation of a so-called “parahistory”, an ironical point of view, a tension between the “classical” form and the “modern” contents, a demythization etc. This is mainly due to their strong skepticism towards the “great” ideologies presented as recipes for the salvation of the world and mankind. Spanish postmodern authors reject the role of the writer as “the conscience of the nation” and deliberately offer only partial view of subjective validity. Their efforts result in highly original historical novels in which nothing and nobody are taken quite seriously, yet the texts still maintain a relatively high informative value of the complex and ambiguous human history.

Das Bild der sowjetischen Gesellschaft in Wolfgang Koeppens Reisebericht ‘Herr Polevoi und sein Gast’

Das Bild der sowjetischen Gesellschaft in Wolfgang Koeppens Reisebericht ‘Herr Polevoi und sein Gast’

Author(s): Marie Frolíková / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2008

The treatise concerning the picture of the Soviet society in the travel essay ´Herr Polevoi und sein Gast‘ written by Wolfgang KOEPPEN follows three aims. First of all I want to show, how KOEPPEN depicts the Soviet culture in the 1950s of the last century considering especially literature. In Koeppen`s ´Herr Polevoi und sein Gast‘ the Soviet culture and politics are brought into a logical connection. I intend to examine how in KOEPPENS`S presentation the Soviet concept of arts deals with the traditional European culture and the culture of modernism. Secondly my study relates to KOEPPEN`S description of the everyday life of the Soviet people. I concentrate particularly on the way how KOEPPEN describes the influence of the political propaganda in all the spheres of the life of the Soviet people. Further I pay attention to the depiction of the megalomaniac endeavours of the Soviet politicians and national economists in the field of the economy, especially in that of the building industry and the production of electricity. It is important to mention that KOEPPEN presents the point of view that the megalomania of the Soviet industry results in the disappearance of the human moderation – this disappearance stimulates the desire after a kind of bourgeois and in a certain sense anachronistic harmonious way of life in the family. This desire does not undermine the sphere of the work paradoxically, but it supports it because it puts an emphasis merely on the materialistic values. KOEPPEN remarks on the secularization of the Soviet society and demonstrates the metaphysical pride and the anthropocentric base of the Soviet communism in this way. He also shows the discrepancy between the socialistic ideas and their realization in practice – this especially giving concrete examples of the infringement of the idea of equality. The third purpose of the treatise is to find the reasons for the fact that KOEPPEN does not express his opinion of the crimes of Stalinism. It should be shown that the way KOEPPEN portrays his visit in the Soviet Union is strongly influenced by his tendency towards artistic authenticity and that this reduces the political dimension of the text. Finally I would like to point out that the so called DFG-Project exists at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Science of the University in Bielefeld nowadays, which deals with the travel books of Wolfgang KOEPPEN. On the initiative of this project the volume number eight of the collected works of Wolfgang KOEPPEN was published in November 2007 – under the title of ´Nach Rußland und anderswohin´. The author of the afterword is Prof. Dr. Walter ERHART. I would like to thank him for sending me one version of the epilogue. It helped me to find important information regarding the circumstances of Koeppen`s visit in the Soviet Union. The activities of the DFG-Project documents that German scholars still take a deep interest in the work of Wolfgang KOEPPEN.

The Imaginary of Life and Nature in Célestin Freinet’s Work

L’Imaginaire de la vie et de la nature dans l’œuvre de Célestin Freinet

Author(s): Alberto Filipe Araújo / Language(s): French / Issue: 17/2009

Keywords: The Imaginary; Life; Nature; Pedagogical Theory; Célestin Freinet.

The author proposes a mythical and symbolic analysis of Célestin Freinet’s work, in which the imaginary of life and nature is dominated by vegetal symbolism, as well as by the myths of Apollo and Dionysus. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to read his work using key-concepts of myth analysis (Gilbert Durand). Instead of a radiographic portrait, the aim here is to identify and interpret the mythical traces of the ideologemes that are part of the ideologemic décor of Célestin Freinet’s work. In the last part of this article, the author questions the usefulness of this effort as far as education sciences are concerned, with a view to understanding the pedagogic thinking of Célestin Freinet and the educational thinking of the New Education.

Chronicle and Glosses

Kronika a glosy

Author(s): Irena Kraitlová,Marie Havránková / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 5/2005

Irena Kraitlová: Bibliografie Milana Jankoviče Marie Havránková: Nálezová zpráva o objevu filatelistické povídky F. Langera

Out of the Theatre

Out of Theatre

Author(s): Zuzana Uličianska / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 03/2008

The author elucidates the trend of the conversion of non-theatrical space to meet the needs of theatrical productions (sweeping conversions, or, remodelling for one-off space use). In addition to a general characteristics of site-specific productions and giving examples from other countries, she maps out the situation in Slovakia, such as in Stanica Žilina-Zárečie (the railway station Žilina-Zárečie), Divadlo v podpalubí na Lodi (The Lower-deck Theatre on a Boat) on Tyršovo nábrežie (Tyrš Embankment) in Bratislava, and the “portable” site specific space of Teatro Tatro and other nontheatrical spaces.

Reviews

Recenze

Author(s): Lukáš Babka / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 02/2005

Nelidský systém zobrazený na lidských osudech imořádná kniha o dějinách sovětského vězeňství (An Inhuman System Illustrated Using Individual People's Lives: An Exceptional Volume on the History of the Soviet Prison System) Applebaum, Anne. Gulag: Dějiny. Trans. from the English by Petruška Šustrová. Prague and Pilsen: Pavel Dobrovský - BETA & Jin Sevcfk, 2004, 604 pp. This history, for which the author, a young American journalist and historian, received a Pulitzer Prize for the best work in history in the USA in 2004, constitutes, according to the reviewer, a milestone in our understanding of the machinery of totalitarian repression in the Soviet Union, as was Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago twenty-five years ago. (By Lukáš Babka) Ježíšmarjá, vždy' ten Hus vypadá jako kněz! Průkopnický sborník o filmu a dějinách (Good Lord! Hus Looks like a Priest! A Pioneering Volume about Film and History) Kopal, Petr (ed.). Film a dějiny. Prague: Lidové noviny, 2005, 406 pp. According to the reviewer this is the first time Czech readers will have a volume of essays about the use of film as a historical source, and, moreover, in their contri¬butions the authors open up new ways of handling these topics. These include the illusion of authentic conveyance of historical reality by the documentary film, ide¬ological manipulation, and national stereotypes in film or the intersection of cine¬matography and historiographic conceptions of interpretation. (by Blahoslav Hruška) Trauma - zrada – memento Mnichovská dohoda po pětašedesáti letech (An Incomplete History of the Free-Thinkers' Movement) Němeček, Jan (ed.). Mnichovská dohoda: Cesta k destrukci demokracie v Evropě. Prague: Karolinum, 2004, 390 pp. This essay volume (whose title translates as The Munich Agreement: The Road to the Destruction of democracy in Europe) is a result of a conference held in Prague in autumn 2003. According to the reviewer it could hardly claim to have discov¬ered never-before investigated areas of the Munich mosaic or approaches that would show it in a new light. Most of the individual contributions that the review discusses, however, are a solid recapitulation of the state of research on the inter¬national diplomatic context of the crisis in autumn 1938, the situation in Cze¬choslovak at that time, and the legal aspects. An Unsuppressed History of the Resistance Marek Syrný Jablonický, Jozef. Samizdat o odboji: Štúdie a články. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2004, 528 pp. The volume, whose title translates as 'Samizdat about the Resistance: Studies and Articles,' comprises eleven articles about the Slovak uprising and the resistance, which Jablonický wrote in the 1970s and '80s, when he was prevented from working open¬ly as an historian and the state authorities were systematically trying to hamper his scholarly work. (For example, the original versions of the some of the essays were con¬fiscated during police searches of his home).

Solovič a ochotníci

Solovič and Amateurs

Author(s): Milan Polák / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 01/2008

Ján Solovič: Moje radosti. Polstoročie s ochotníkmi 1956 – 2006. (Vydalo Vydavateľstvo Štúdio humoru satiry atď. Bratislava, 2006. Ilustrácie, návrh obálky a grafi cká úprava Milan Stano. Strán 104.)

PHAEDRA'S REVOLT

FAIDRINA VZBURA

Author(s): Marcel Koman / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 02/2015

Keywords: Pheadra; Hippolytus; Theseus; Enquist; Racine; Zola; Seneca; Kane;

This article brings an interpretation of Enquist’s drama For Phaedra from a political and social point of view. It compares it to the previous dramas based on the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus written by Euripides, Seneca, Racine, Zola and Kane. It argues that having lost social and internal values, characters of the drama feel useless, which leads to a revolt against the system. For a better understanding of the main thesis of the article the author relies on psychoanalytical explanations which Enquist used in his comments and remarks on the drama. The author focuses on the evolution and changes in society, especially increasing material wealth that leads to the alienation of man, which allowed a critical application of the myth onto our society and its problems. The drama displays Enquist’s social democratic political attitudes. The characters are mirrored in each other with the only exception: the character of Theseus represents a man and politician in one person who has abused his power. He changes history to what he wants it to be, and he considers his wife and the rest of the family as his property, not as human beings. Phaedra tries to seduce her son-in-law Hippolytus to revenge for Theseus’s behaviour. When Hippolytus dies and she commits suicide, the character of a cleaner appears. Theramenes and Aricia follow him to change the unjust political system.

10 Years in a Chronicle of News (the Year 1993)

10 Jahre Nachrichtenchronik 1989-1999 (das Jahr 1993)

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): German / Issue: 20/1999

The path of getting to know oneself I. The Human Nature as a Theme of an Ancient Greek Drama

Na ceste k poznaniu seba samého I. Ľudská prirodzenosť ako téma v niektorých antických drámach

Author(s): Lukáš Jeník / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 3/2017

Keywords: ancient Greek drama; fysis; nous; philosophical anthropology; Sophocles; Aeschylus; Euripides;

The aim of the article is to introduce a reflection on the fundamental question of philosophical anthropology: What is a man according to ancient Greek drama and theater? The „grasp“ of the human nature in drama is visible in the works of the three most important playwriters of ancient Greece: Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. The heroes of ancient Greek drama are thrown into a destiny conflict that determines them, their passion, aspiration and their rationality. This issue also relates to Plato‘s and other philosophers‘ later efforts to grasp systematically issues of philosophical anthropology.

Between the Idyllic Togetherness and Desire for Individual Emancipation.The Narration Logic in the Subgenre of Family Saga

Mezi idylickou soudržností a touhou po individuální emancipaci. Logika narativu v subžánru rodinné ságy

Author(s): Marcin Filipowicz / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: family saga; family; narrative; idyll; emancipation;

The goal of the paper is to contemplate the nature of the narrative structures in the subgenre of family saga, which has undoubtedly left a trace in the western patterns of family story-telling. It is mainly theoretically based on a Structuralist paper by Claude Bremond titled The Logic of Narrative Possibilities. However, French Structuralist narratology is not mentioned here in order to examine the laws of a literary work of art per se. The paper investigates the layer of fabula in a number of European and Czech family sagas, which is seen as a trace in a reader´s memory made by reading a particular piece of writing and forming a meaningful whole. The paper uses Bremond´s analysis to examine the logic of the narration, what imapct it has on understanding the category of family in a family saga. What is researched is the patterns of the narration logic in family sagas, which oscillates between the idyllic family togetherness and individualization. The paper proves that the pattern of deterioration seen as family dissolution and the disintegration of idyllic coexistence is not applied everywhere. This enables to review the current theory of the subgenre in question, which was solely defined by the logic of deterioration. Family saga brings a number of narrations based on ambivalent attitudes towards family, which is manifested by alternating processes of deterioration and improvement as well as their concurrence. These make the family saga characters hate the family, and at the same time regard it as an environment vital for life.

J. M. Hurban conception of Czech-Slovak mutuality on the travelogue example

Hurbanova koncepce česko-slovenské vzájemnosti na příkladu obrozenského cestopisu

Author(s): Jana Pátková / Language(s): Slovak,Czech / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: travelogue; Romanticism; Czech-Slovak mutuality; Slavs; Slovak literature; J. M. Hurban

The study focuses on the conception of Czech-Slovak mutuality in one of the key travel texts of the 19th century, in the Hurban‘s Cesta Slováka ku bratrům slavenským na Moravě a v Čechách (Path of the Slovak to the Slavic brothers in Moravia and Bohemia) in 1839 (1841). As a type of so-called National Revival travelogue, it carries a number of stereotypical constructions, which are used in other texts of travelogue genre of the 19th century in the Czech and Slovak literature. In the thirties and forties of the 19th century, the National Revival type of travelogue had a precise function, relying on modelling the positive representation of Slavic mutuality or Czech-Slovak mutuality. Hurban's travelogue reflects this developmental position in the form of an emblematic capture of the landscape, with emphasis on meta-linguistic reflections on common language and modelling of stereotypical constructions in imaging close and different ethnicities. The study analyzes the text in relation to both Czech and Slovak pretexts, which together form a specific paradigm system of national emblems and symbols.

Music, structure and inactivity in the diary of Imre Kertész

La musique, la structure et l’inactualité dans le Journal de galère d’Imre Kertész

Author(s): Henri De Montety / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: Imre Kertész; musique allemande; musique atonale; journal intime; Shoah

La lecture du journal intime d’Imre Kertész (Journal de galère), éclaire à plus d’un titre son oeuvre romanesque, notamment la trilogie auto-fictionnelle qui l’a rendu célèbre (Être sans destin, Le refus, Kaddisch pour un enfant qui ne naîtra pas). Il y conceptualise notamment ce qu’il désigne comme étant la «narration atonale», propre à la description d’une vie humaine qui n’est plus celle d’un sujet, ni même celle d’un objet, mais uniquement celle d’un élément d’une structure. La notion de structure, selon Kertész, rapproche l’écriture romanesque (la sienne) et la composition musicale atonale. C’est aussi la structure qui fixe une autre trilogie, sous-jacente et très intime, celle du père, de l’internat et d’Auschwitz. Et ainsi, seule sans doute la musique a pu ramener Kertész à lui-même, la musique allemande.

Captain Conan. A novel and a French film about the aftermath of the Great War in Romania

Capitaine Conan. Un roman et un film français sur les lendemains de la Grande Guerre en Roumanie

Author(s): Jean-Noël Grandhomme / Language(s): French / Issue: 64/2018

Keywords: Roger Vercel; Captain Conan; World War I; Romania; Berthelot;

Dans Capitaine Conan (1934), prix Goncourt, l'écrivain Roger Vercel, lui-même ancien combattant du front d'Orient, raconte l'histoire d'un officier des corps francs de l'armée Franchet d'Espèrey, passé ensuite à l'armée du Danube du général Berthelot. Dans cette guerre non-conventionnelle, plus dure encore que celle menée par les "poilus" classiques, il se révèle un extraordinaire meneur d'hommes, mais peu respectueux de la discipline et des règlements. Dans Bucarest libéré, ses soldats, incapables de supporter la paix car fils de la guerre, commettent de nombreux délits et Conan s'efforce de leur éviter d'être condamnés. En 1996 le livre est adapté au cinéma par Bertrand Tavernier, qui a déjà traité de la grande Guerre quelques années plus tôt dans La Vie et rien d'autre. Le film rencontre le succès auprès du public grâce à la performance des acteurs et au sujet. La Roumanie, et plus particulièrement sa capitale, servent en effet de décor aux aventures de Conan. Les Français, en 1934 comme en 1996, redécouvrent ce front oublié et un pays francophile et francophone. Quelques années à peine après la révolution de 1989 Capitaine Conan bénéficie de l'intérêt du public pour l'Europe centrale et orientale et pour la Roumanie en particulier. On s'attachera à voir comment la Roumanie et les Roumains sont traités dans ces deux œuvres de fiction.

„A Novel without a Hero“ of Ladislav Nádaši Jégé

„Román bez hrdinu“ Ladislava Nádašiho Jégého

Author(s): Ivana Taranenková / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 4/2019

Keywords: Ladislav Nádaši Jégé; 19th Century European novel; literary archetypes; literary tradition;

The study focuses on the work of Slovak writer Ladislav Nádaši Jégé (1844 – 1940)who published his writings in the 1880s but then broke off his literary carrier untilthe 1920s. As a young aspiring author, Nádaši showed an exceptional overview of theWest European literature and culture that was rare among his contemporaries orientedtowards Russian literature. Contemporaneous literary critics as well as later Slovakliterary historians saw a link between Jégé´s writing of the 1920s and 1930s and thenaturalism of Emile Zola. They arrived at this conclusion because of an article aboutZola, which Nádaši published in 1891, in which he had argued against the widespreadimage of the French writer in Slovak cultural circles. Slovak intellectuals of the lastdecades of the19th Century regarded Zola and his literary method of naturalism asamoral and vulgar.This study explores broader links of Ladislav Nádaši Jégé’s literary texts with thetradition of European literature and culture that cannot be reduced to the influence ofa single poetics or author. In 1889, Nádaši published the novelette Výhody spoločenskéhoživota (The Benefits of Social Life), a satirical work with the subtitle “Another Storywithout a Hero”, in reference to the novel Vanity Fair by English writer William MakepeaceThackeray. Several elements of Thackeray´s novel can be identified not only inNádaši ´s novelette but also in his later works. This aspect hasn’t been considered inearlier analyses of his texts in Slovak literary history.Jégé´s novel Cesta životom (The Journey Through Life) published in 1930 tellsthe story of a renegade who denies his origins to climb the social ladder of the amoraland corrupt society at the end of the 19th Century. The novel depicts the tension ofnational attitude in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy – the subject of many novels of19th Century Slovak literature – from the perspective of a conformist antihero. In thisnovel, Nádaši Jégé also used literary archetypes as well as features of the Europeanlong literary tradition. They include elements of the picaresque novel and charactersrelated to the literary archetypes of Falstaff and Don Juan. The English philosopherThomas Hobbes and his reflections on the human nature also feature occasionally.The literary works of Nádaši Jége are not just the result of his appropriation of 19thCentury naturalism; they include many elements of the European cultural traditionthat were not frequently present in the works of his contemporaries.

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Author(s): Silke Pasewalck,Izabela Surynt,Joanna Drynda,Beate Sommerfeld,Jadwiga Kita-Huber,Marita Meyer,Ewa Płomińska-Krawiec,Małgorzata Jokiel,Dieter Neidlinger,Bożena Chołuj,Frank Michael Schuster,Marion Brandt,Jürgen Joachimsthaler,Łukasz Musiał,Czesława Schatte,Monika Bielińska,Heinz Vater,Lesław Tobiasz,Janusz Pociask / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2007

Petr Daněk: Historické tisky vokální polyfonie, rané monodie, hudební teorie a instrumentální hudby v českých zemích do roku 1630. Se soupisem tisků z let 1488 – 1628, uložených v Čechách

Petr Daněk: Historické tisky vokální polyfonie, rané monodie, hudební teorie a instrumentální hudby v českých zemích do roku 1630. Se soupisem tisků z let 1488 –1628, uložených v Čechách

Author(s): Ladislav Kačic / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2015

Review of: Petr Daněk: Historické tisky vokální polyfonie, rané monodie, hudební teorie a instrumentální hudby v českých zemích do roku 1630. Se soupisem tisků z let 1488 – 1628 uložených v Čechách Praha : KLP – Koniasch Latin Press 2015, 223 s., ISBN 9788087773130

Toncrová, Marta – Smutná, Silva (ed.): Lidové písně z Podhorácka I. Náměšťsko a Velkobítešsko

Toncrová, Marta – Smutná, Silva (ed.): Lidové písně z Podhorácka I. Náměšťsko a Velkobítešsko

Author(s): Miriam Timková / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2015

Review of: Toncrová, Marta – Smutná, Silva (eds.): Lidové písně z Podhorácka I. Náměšťsko a VelkobítešskoTřebíč; Brno : Muzeum Vysočiny Třebíč; Etnologický ústav AV ČR, 2011, 510 s., ISBN 978-80-86894-18-8

Jozef Kresánek – Inspiring Personality of the Slovak Music Culture. International Musicological Conference, October 9 – 11, 2013

Jozef Kresánek – inšpiratívna osobnosť slovenskej hudobnej kultúry. Medzinárodná muzikologická konferencia, Bratislava, 9. – 11. októbra 2013

Author(s): Michal Ščepán / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2013

Eva Ferková: Hudobná analýza II. Stručné dejiny hudobnej analýzy

Eva Ferková: Hudobná analýza II. Stručné dejiny hudobnej analýzy

Author(s): Marián Štúň / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 1/2022

Review of: Eva Ferková: Hudobná analýza II. Stručné dejiny hudobnej analýzy. Bratislava : Vysoká škola múzických umení, Hudobná a tanečná fakulta, 2021, 180 s. ISBN 978-80-8195-077-3