Conversation with Tomas Venclova

A költészet nyelv a négyzeten

Author(s): Tomas Venclova / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Keywords: contemporary Lithuanian literature;

Interview by Erich Klein and Uldis Tirons

Short Story

Megmerítve

Author(s): Frans Kusters / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Comments and Debates

Kommentárok és viták - Utazás a "másik" felé

Author(s): Yudit Kiss / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Short Story

A Vidámpark nyitva van

Author(s): Zoltán Egressy / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Short story

Reports

Tudósítások

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Ian McEwan (London/Berlin): Van egy történet, amin minden író dolgozik 79 Andrus Kiviräkh (Tallinn/Berlin): Miért annyira mások az észtek? 80 Horváth Viktor (Pécs): Szén és urán 81

Summer of a Marmot

Egy mormota nyara

Author(s): Gábor Németh / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Short story

Conversation with Péter Esterházy

Amit el akarok mondani, az nem egy történet

Author(s): Péter Esterházy,Zsuzsa Selyem / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Keywords: Hungarian literature

Troubles

Zavaros idők

Author(s): J.G. (James Gordon) Farrell / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Excerpt of the novel

The Meteorologic Novel

A meteorológiai regény

Author(s): Krisztina Tóth / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Keywords: contemporary French litearture

On the literary work ofJean Rouaud

Time, Space, Landscape

Idő, tér, táj

Author(s): László Márton / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Keywords: contemporary Polish literature

On the literary work of Olga Tokarczuk

The Collector of Worlds

Az anyaggyűjtés poétikája

Author(s): Ilija Trojanow / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Excerpt of the novel Der Weltensammler (The Collector of Worlds), Munich, 2006

Primeval and other times

Őskor és más idők

Author(s): Olga Tokarczuk / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Keywords: contemporary Polish literature

Excerpt of the novel "Prawiek i inne czasy" (translated by Zsuzsa Mihályi)

It Happened on September the First (or whenever)

Szeptember elsején történt

Author(s): Pavol Rankov / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Keywords: contemporary Slovak literature

Excerpt of the novel On September 1, 1938, at a fashionable swimming pool in Levice in the centre of Europe, three thirteen-year-old adolescents – Hungarian, Czech and Jewish – decided to compete in a swimming competition to win a claim over a Slovak blonde, Mária. The three friends’ contest for love is repeated in virtually every year of the novel’s progress, but the race never ends in victory. The novel rushes its characters onward through political tribulations, but never allows them to finish the fateful race. Even though the characters’ lives are filled with incredible events, they are never filled with the most sacred emotion of them all – love. Nobody wins Mária and Mária, the most innocent, loses all

Deixem Passar o Homem Invisível (Let the Invisible Man Go Through)

A lisszaboni vízözön

Author(s): Rui Cardoso Martins / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 80/2011

Keywords: contemporary Portuguese literature

Excerpt from the novel Deixem Passar o Homem Invisível” (Let the Invisible Man Go Through, Dom Quixote, 2009) narrates the story of a blindman and a child who get washed down the Lisbon sewage system during a flood.

Belarus: Leveraging Lukashenka

Belarus: Leveraging Lukashenka

Author(s): Peter Rutland / Language(s): English / Issue: 08/29/2006

Keywords: Prospects for Belarusian Democracy; Joerg Forbrig; David Marples; Pavol Demes; German Marshall Fund; dictatorships; Silitski; Alyaksandr Milinkevich; EU

Belarus experts look in vain for a Rosetta Stone to decipher the enigma of Alyaksandr the Great.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know: … But Were Afraid to Ask

Everything You Always Wanted to Know: … But Were Afraid to Ask

Author(s): Nikola Z. Simic / Language(s): English / Issue: 08/29/2006

Keywords: Milosevic; Official Gazette; Freedom of Information; Serbia; independent state office; parliament; Zoran Djindjic

Serbs who want to use the country’s Freedom of Information Act are finding that a law is only as good as its application.

Azerbaijan: Voices Falling Silent

Azerbaijan: Voices Falling Silent

Author(s): Leyla Amirova / Language(s): English / Issue: 08/29/2006

Keywords: Gusar region; Lezgi; ethnic groups; Caucasian language; Rusian language; Azeri Lezgi; textbooks; Sadaqat Karimova

Whether struggling to find educational materials for children or teaching adults how to read, the Lezgi of Azerbaijan are trying to keep their identity alive.

Russia: From Knives to Bombs

Russia: From Knives to Bombs

Author(s): Tihomir Loza,Ky Krauthamer ,Andrew Gardner / Language(s): English / Issue: 08/29/2006

Keywords: extremists; anarchy; internationalist communism; racist; patriotism; nationalist sentiment; Orthodox priests; Lenin; hooligans

Why, unlike their predecessors, are Russia's student extremists targeting the powerless rather than the powers-that-be?

EU Candidates: Spare Some Cash?

EU Candidates: Spare Some Cash?

Author(s): Risto Karajkov / Language(s): English / Issue: 08/29/2006

Keywords: European Union; Croatia; Macedonia; Turkey; Albania; Bosnia; Montenegro; Serbia; IPA; PHARE; ISPA; SAPARD; CARDS; European Commission; EU budget; European Parliament

A new, unified EU Balkan aid package is in the cards. It's simpler than the existing five programs, but some argue it's less phare.

Interpretation of Ornamental Signs in Theoretical Handbooks from the 19th and 20th Centuries

Тълкуване на украсителните знаци в теоретичните ръководства от XIX и XX век

Author(s): Peter Stajkovsky / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2007

This article addresses neumatic signs in the Chrysantine system of musical notation (from 1814), which are part of the class of aphona neumes (great hypostasis), according to late Byzantine neumatic classification. In the neumatic system created by Chrysantos of Madytos, the reformer of Byzantine notation during the Balkan National Revival, out of the nearly 60 aphona neumes only seven were preserved, which functioned as “decorative” signs. They showed “how to ornament the voice and what variations to make in order to introduce beauty into singing” (according to Petur Dinev in his “Handbook for Modern Byzantine Neumatic Notation,” published in Sofia in 1964). Definitions by Bulgarian and Greek publishers from the 19th and 20th centuries are studied regarding the meaning of neumatic signs such as bareia, psefiston, homalon, antikenoma, heteron, entophonon, and stavros. The author concludes that the performative aspect of monophonic liturgical singing from the Revival period onward was not precisely defined, but rather varied according to knowledge about the oral chant tradition. In the author’s opinion, the publications consulted represent only a small fraction of performative possibilities, with the remainder being filled in by Psaltes themselves according to the singing school where there were educated or according to their personal knowledge and preference with regards to tradition. It is this that constitutes the richness and beauty of that “unique art form inspired by God in its very essence,” which has been preserved in Balkan Eastern Orthodox churches.