Current Slovak prose is polyphonic thanks to a number of authors with strong personalities and their own distinctive literary style. In spite of their solitariness and individuality, in their literary works they have several themes in common, which then appear to be central and typical, such as, for example, memory, ideology, personal situation and home and the world.
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Mica Vujičič - Vincent Šikula, Ornament, Archipelag, Beograd, 2013, Translated from Serbian by Zdenka Valent-Belič; Transladed from Slovak by Heather Trebatická Carlos J. Gonzalez Serrano - Rudolf Sloboda, Ursula (Uršuľa), Ediciones Xorki, Madrid, 2011, Translated by Valeria K. Rivera de Rosales Daniel Hevier, Ťahák na básne, Crib Notes for Poems, Literárne informačné centrum, Bratislava, 2013 Veronika Šikulová, Diera do svetra, Hole in a Sweater, Slovart, Bratislava, 2012
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Our new neighbour sprang a surprise on us. Sprang is a good word. Sprang on us. As if he'd come from nowhere. He made me think of the snowman in the children's riddle, They call me a man, but I've no wife, they gave me a body but not a life, and so on. Only this was no snowman, he was a man. A fellow. One proper stallion. By that I mean to say he exuded masculine sexuality. He wasn't standing under the window but on the terrace of a red-brick villa. The villa was opposite. Opposite, by that I mean on the other side of the street. I mention it only for the sake of order.
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Keywords: elite; post-communism; public lynch; intellectuals
The elite – or some of its members – have been in the centre of one of the biggest public conflicts in Romanian post-communism. The good news is that it has not been defeated yet. The bad news is that its opponents are still in good shape. Apart from that, the new political anarchy which is being formed in Romania offers a fundamental idea for the continuation of hostility between two cultural institutions from Romania: Tismanianu Commission and the Romanian Culture Institute.
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In his „Bald Singer“ Ionescu demystifies the last century. “To demystify means to decompose, question, clarify the big myths or dens of mental situations, what Remboe did with Christianity. I depicted such things in “Bald Singer” because there is a parody on the spoken language, parody on theatre, questioning of that theatre. In this play I put the culture into question: the characters say one thing and do another: one dark vitality denies everything we thing or think we think and this leads to the criticism of every ideology. I always said that I was not interested in what people think, but what makes them think what they think. This leads to demystification of every ideology.
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Keywords: civilization; poverty; society; consumerist society
Being a so-called forever rebel, the German philosopher Peter Sloterdik in the last chapter of the third volume of his trilogy “Spharen”, depicts the contours of the modern west civilization, that is of the world of abundance which tends to be spoiled striving for luxurious and dissolute way of life. He opposes those who write laments to poverty and misery – either because of conservativism or left radicalism. According to this philosopher there are so many laments to poverty and misery that they get in the way of understanding the reality. Peter Sloterdik writes about developed societies like Germany and USA and argues that statistics show that the number of poor people decreases to 10 or15 percent.
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Keywords: Romanian minority in Voivodina; village
Unpromising way of life in villages forces young people to search for a better life in cities or abroad. Thus, the circle closes: villages become poorer and poorer, and this becomes a serious social problem. For the Romanian minority in Voivodina and Serbia, village is important for two reasons: agriculture is the basic preoccupation of more than 60 percent of the Romanian population. At the same time, the population living in villages makes the foundation and the essence of the existence of all cultural activities of this minority. With the disappearance of the village, the solid, clearly defined core of the population melts down. All the festivals, cultural organizations, media as well as schools in Romanian language aim at that population. Rural life in Voivodina faces itself with a big decision: if its goes with the flow of today’s developmental politics in Serbia, it will end up as a museum piece.
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La numai şase luni de zile de la terminarea războiului din R.F.I., un grup ambiţioşi de români s-au întrunit în jurul unui proiect comun – înfiinţarea unei noi publicaţii româneşti. În acest sens, cunoscutul ziarist Petru Tomici a înregistrat o marcă, Secolul 21, punct de plecare al ziarului – magazin pentru întreaga familie cum scria în frontispiciu.
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Keywords: Key words: The reform of education; history; education; upbringing
The necessity to reform the educational system resulted from global economy movements, especially from tension created on the global market. The reform should have adjusted the educational system to the new and improved economical circumstances that is to the neo-liberal market concept. The notion of education and investment in children has been known for a long time. Nevertheless, its form is somewhat different today. Today, people strive to create an educational system which can produce generations ready for, firstly, all the economical challenges the future brings. In the past, its focus was on building and strengthening the national consciousness or reproduction of a certain ideological concept.
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Keywords: Elite; Intellectual; Voivodina
A century and a half has passed since first educated Romanians appeared in today’s Voivodina. This group of educated Romanians kept increasing and forming the Romanian cultural elite. These people were very successful professionally. Apart from professional knowledge they have broader social and political visions. The whole territory where the minority lives experienced a great agricultural, cultural and educational development. The activities of the intellectuals represent a special yet unexplored field.
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În luna mai a anului 2007, la Cluj -Napoca a avut loc Con ferin ţa Internaţion ală intitulată Modernizarea în România în secolele XIX- XXI, patron ată de către Centru l d e Studii Tran silvane al Academie i Ro mâne. Luc rările prezentate la ace astă confe rinţă au fost sintetizate într-un vo lum d eosebit de in teresant, ap ăru t în anul 2008, purtând titlul Schimbare şi deven ire în istoria României . Subiectul propus de către organizatorii aceste i confe rinţe deosebit de imp ortante n e -ar putea trezi un interes aparte, având în vede re fap tul că acesta se poate ad uce în le gătură direc tă sau mai pu ţin dire ctă cu populaţia r omâne asc ă din actualul Banat sârbesc.
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Scopul acestui articol este de a cunoaşte cititorul nostru starea actuală în unele reviste de literatură şi artă apărute în Rusia. Autorii acestor reviste ţin seama de toate categoriile de cititori, de aceea au o tematică variată. Se publică multă poezie şi proză, mai ales generaţia scriitorilor tineri. În textele de faţă vă prezint trei reviste ruseşti, care apar periodic în Rusia: „Contemporanul nostru”numărul întâi şi nr. opt din anul 2008, „Drapelul” nr. trei /2007 apărute la Moscova şi „Steaua” numărul opt din anul 2008, care apare la Sankt- Petersburg.
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Născut la 15 iulie 1948 în comuna Codreni din vecinătatea lui Alexei Mateevici, Nicolae Dabija a intrat în conştiinţa cititorului activ al cărţii naţionale româneşti chiar de la apariţia plachetei sale de debut, Ochiul al treilea. Cu suflet sensibil, cu un destin dominat de poezie, intuiţie lingvistică, acest poet basarabean izvorăşte din contextul naţional în care i-a fost sortit să se integreze mai târziu. Aceste particularităţi au căpătat contururi precise în volume, de la început şi până la realizarea operei sale, în care ne comunică adevărul la prima vedere cu mijloace simple sufletului şi inimii sale şi ne îndeamnă să ocrotim valoarea omenească. Gloanţele din titlul cărţii lui Nicolae Dagija, Maraton printre gloanţe, sunt probabil nu altceva decât metafora anilor trecuţi, ani care trezesc melancolia în sufletul poetului.
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Săptămânalul scriitorilor din Republica Moldova fondat la 3 octombrie 1954 care apare la Chişinău, „LITERATURA ŞI ARTA”, oferă cititorului pe cele 8 pagini poezie, proză, comentarii şi critică literară. Redactor-şef a acestei reviste este Nicolae Dabija. O altă revistă lunară cu 24 de pagini care apare din 1994 la Chişinău, este revista tinerilor scriitori din Republica Moldova, „CONTRAFORT”. Din nr. 8, 2008 a acestei reviste aşi pomeni pe Vladimir Bulat cu articolul „De cealaltă parte a Dunării: Serbia creştină”, unde scrie despre despre călătoria sa prin Serbia şi despre mănăstirile Ravanica, Studenica şi Moraca. „SUD-EST CULTURAL - revistă trimestrială de artă, cultură şi civilizaţie, la fel apare la Chişinău. Redactor-şef: Valentina Tăzlăuanu.Autorii permanenţi a acestei reviste sunt: Leo Botnaru, Mihai Cimpoi, Constantin I.Ciobanu ş.a. Revista cuprinde eseuri, poezie, teatru, aniversări. „Atunci-partidul, acum gaşca” este titlul articolului de pe pagina de dialog din nr.3, 2008, cu mărturisirile lui Serafim Saka.
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Keywords: right extremism; nationalism; society
Right extremism represents one of the biggest problems of democratic societies. The text especially deals with socio-political context on post Yugoslav territory considering the mentioned socio-political context one of the fundamental causes of expansion of the right extremism. Contemporary social and political changes on the territory of ex Yugoslavia justify the role change of the right extremism in the new circumstances.
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Keywords: cultural life; authenticity; experiment; spirituality
In the period between the wars, spectacular research and experiments took place and created different directions and levels. This is a period when people rise from tensions of political extremists which reflect on social and cultural spheres. A period when young people fear (self)cognition and search for spiritual masters trying to answer metaphysic questions. That was the time of the biggest cultural amplitude with so many new possibilities. Apart from the epoch of the “big classics”, the epoch between two world wars gave many big writers like Nicolae Iorga, Lucian Blaga, Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade, a whole pleiad of significant thinkers and creators who lifted the standard of Romanian spirit to the level which can be compared to other big European cultures.
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Cartea intitulată Gânduri despre viaţă şi conştiinţă a cărui autor este fostul preşedinte al Sloveniei, Janez Drnovšek, a stârnit numeroase controverse. Unii afirmă că această carte ne vorbeşe despre un nivel mai înalt de conştiinţă spirituală, iar unii cred că este vorba de un simplu joc politic. Aceasta a şi dus la vinderea întregului tiraj, de 8000 de exemplare, imediat după apariţia cărţii. Cartea este scrisă de Drnovšek în doar 48 de zile şi cuprinde teme spirituale şi teme în legătură cu schimbările în societate. Cartea este împărţită în 48 de capitole, iar fiecare capitol este dedicat unei zile. Pe lângă realitatea contemporană abordată în această carte, putem citi şi despre conştiinţă şi despre dezvoltarea spirituală până la cel mai înalt nivel al conştiinţei, despre mărimea binelui, despre încredere în sine şi despre traiul vieţii.
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Keywords: interview; research priorities
Interview with Luca Giuliani by Elitza Stanoeva
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Keywords: excellence; Bologna process; higher education; intangible assets; neoliberalism; capitalism
The paper claims that European policies conceive the quality of higher education as a particular kind of intangible asset – excellence. In order to substantiate that claim, we offer an outline of the concept of intangible asset as developed in the economic theory around the turn of the 21st century as well as of the methods for assessing intangibles relevant to excellence. We intend to demonstrate that the rearticulation of higher education quality as excellence, initiated by the Bologna process, will bring about new forms of exclusion that will expose universities and research institutions in relatively smaller societies to the risks of decapitalization and provincialization.
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Keywords: higher education; university ranking; educational reform; government subsidy; fi nancing; student vouchers; cost sharing
The author reviews the system for fi nancing higher education and the fundamental reasons for governments to subsidize higher education as a public good. He recommends a change in the system with two major components: fi nancing all accredited institutions of higher education without discrimination on the basis of ownership, and a gradual decrease of the state subsidy share of total expenses, with the rest being funded by students with the help of the recently introduced government-guaranteed loans. A claim is made that such a change will increase students’ motivation and will improve the quality of education through a healthy competition on the basis of a price/quality analysis. The author also claims that a system where “the funds follow the student” is superior to historical-value systems that do not take into account the success of the graduates and the quality of education in the respective professional fi eld and institution. A gradual approach for achieving the results is presented.
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