(DOMOVINA TU JE, DOMOVINA GDE JE?)

Author(s): Attila Balasz / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 442/2006

Da sam jedna mala ruža ja… Ili ne: da sam nekakav pantomimičar, zatražio bih minimum pola sata ćutanja, mada prvi ja nisam siguran da bih izdržao. Znam, međutim, i to, da nisam u stanju da dam zadovoljavajući odgovor, lišen svakog opsenarstva, na pitanje domovina gde je? Radije ću se praviti da mi – kao i većini sapatnika – kakvu-takvu, prenosivu i preseljivu, domovinu predstavlja moj manjkavi jezik, pa ću i dometnuti koju. Pokušaću, dakle, da napabirčim nekoliko rastočenih reči, raspolućenih rečenica, u točak zapletenih, zakukuljenih misli. Svojevrsni naramak ugaraka. Ali, da nisam već prekardašio?

2084. Kraj svijeta

Author(s): Boualem Sansal / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 20/2015

Neka čitatelj ne misli da je ova priča istinita i da se služi nekom poznatom stvarnošću. Ne, stvarno, sve je izmišljeno, osobe, činjenice i ostalo, a dokaz je taj što se priča odvija u dalekoj budućnosti, u daleku svemiru koji ni po čemu ne sliči našem.

60/40

Author(s): Julian Barnes / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 453/2008

Bila je to ona nedelja kada se Hilari Klinton konačno povukla. Hrpa boca i čaša prekrivala je sto; i premda je glad bila utoljena, neka blaga društvena zavisnost i dalje je terala ruke da posegnu i zgrabe još jedan grozd, pokrenu odron sa litice od sira ili uzmu čokoladicu iz kutije. Razgovarali smo o Obaminim izgledima protiv Mekejna i da li je Hilari poslednjih nedelja pokazala da ima petlju ili je to bila puka samoobmana. Raspravljali smo, takođe, o tome da li se laburisti još uvek razlikuju od konzervativaca, da li su ulice Londona pogodne za autobuse sa harmonikom, kolika je verovatnoća da Alkaida izvrši napad za vreme Olimpijskih igara 2012, kao i o posledicama globalnog zagrevanja na englesko vinogradarstvo. Džoana, koja se nije oglašavala povodom poslednje dve teme, tada sa uzdahom reče: „Znate, baš bi mi prijala cigareta.“

A „mákos” meg a „diós”

Részlet egy önéletrajzi regényből

Author(s): Vladimir Rott / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2017

A clean, well-lighted writing

Author(s): Irina Simanschi / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2017

Interpreting Hemingway’s works is mostly focused on the intermingling of the recurring themes, on the (in)explicable achievements of the troubled (fe)male characters, and yet it is the shaping of the discourse which stands for Hemingway’s hallmark. Reverting to the carefully planned withdrawal of strategic elements of the writing contributes to the complexity of the text, which to a great extent depends on the reader so as to be given hermeneutical value. The display of the clear language is nothing but a straightforward wrapping of internal progressive actions beneath the text, which both vertically and horizontally challenges the reader and the entire narrative act.

A hóember unokája

Author(s): Imre Goldstein / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2017

A Lifetime Memory Quest: Identity, Places and Characters in John McGahern's Memoir

Author(s): Dana Radler / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Childhood and youth emerge and re-emerge, time and again, as durable concerns and difficult intervals to reach adulthood, as John McGahern describes his experience in novels and short stories. In Memoir (2005), the writer adopts a more detached vision than in his earlier writings, yet he does not admit it to be a typical autobiography. How are conflicts shaped and reconverted by the passage of time? Where does imagination start and where do facts determine the narrative? Is Memoir a piece of fiction, a well-documented and rather neutrally-written volume, or something in between? This article aims at exploring the way in which the narrator’s identity is infused with difficult, tormenting memories of a distant past, while the writer undergoes a difficult process. To understand the process, the analysis relies on major cultural concepts: collective memory (Halbwachs), communicative memory (Assmann), remembering as remediation (Erll) and memory seen as migration (Glynn and Kleist).

A POSEBNO, MAČKE

Author(s): Doris Lesing / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 448/2007

Kuća se nalazila na brdu, pa bi sokolovi, orlovi, svakakve grabljivice koje su se spiralno kretale iznad šipražja koristeći vazdušne struje, često lebdele u nivou očiju, ponekad i ispod njega. Gledao bi odozgo u crna i braon krila koja su se presijavala na suncu, dva metra raširenih krila, nagnutih u stranu dok se ptica uspinje krivolinijskom putanjom. Dole, u poljima, mogao si nepomično da ležiš u brazdi, najbolje tamo gde je plug prodro duboko, pri zaokretu, pod slojem trave i lišća.

A Powerful Russian Novel: Laur, Evgheni Vodolaskin

Evgheni Vodolaskin, Laur, Roman neistoric, / Laur, A nonhistorical novel, translation from Russian and notes by Adriana Liciu, Humanitas Fiction Publishing House, Bucharest, 2014, 328 pages.

Author(s): Paula-Andreea Onofrei / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

A Teaching Approach to William Faulkner’s Narrative Techniques

Author(s): Daniela Duralia / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Faulkner’s way of writing has proven to be most often discouraging, a generating source of frustration, anxiety and even reluctance for many brilliant college students. Beyond the author’s deliberate effort to create confusion, there lie enormous reasons and substratum meaning. Had such readers possessed the necessary knowledge before starting reading his novels, they would not have gotten out of their depth. In response to such attitude, this research is meant to insure a thorough supportive guidance targeting students’ preparation as fully-fledged detectives and judges of Faulkner’s writing intentions.

Adalet Ağaoğlu’nun Bir Göç Romanı: Fikrimin İnce Gülü

Author(s): Merve Esra Polat / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2016

Migration, a powerful force in societies, is among the topics of literature which is also a part of human life. One of the literary works mentioning migration is Fikrimin İnce Gülü, Adalet Ağaoğlu‟s second book. It is possible that the migration can be examined based person as "who go abroad", "turning back" and "survivor" in the text. In the light of text-based inspection method, historical and sociological approaches peopleoriented disclosed social, political, psychological and economic conflict is based on only the work, generalization is not done. The transforming family structure, continuity issue of relations with the dormitory, the hardships of the working conditions, discrepancies originated from culture, language, religion, alienation which leads to isolation and the problems in return are discourse in the process that based on people's expectations and disappointments. The characters that trapped between two different cultures, refuge on consumer goods, exhibit behaviours that lead to cultural degeneration to adapt to economic and social order of meta culture. The conflict and migration culture model will prevail in order to examine migration movements in Fikrimin İnce Gülü. In the context of this model, the conflicts of characters in the process of migration to Germany will reveal taking into consideration the difficulties and disagreements to be effective.

Adam Kaczanowski: „Utrata” (fragment powieści)

Author(s): Adam Kaczanowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2017

Adaptare și imitație în romanele "No Time Like the Present", de Nadine Gordimer și „Vremea Minunilor", de Cătălin Dorian Florescu

Author(s): Simina Timofte / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2018

In a series of lectures in 1994, Nadine Gordimer remarks the different status of Africa which is no longer at the edge of the empire, but on the contrary, in the center of it. In this respect, post-apartheid Africa has rebuilt its national identity on the background of global events that write universal history, offering citizens the chance to escape their country's constraints and bring important key elements in the globalization process.Thus, replacing apartheid themes in a new country is an extreme taskby the applicant. Some of the favourite subjects of the "old guard" are the following: the importance of multiculturalism in post-apartheid South Africa, the writer's status, vulgarisation of violence due to mass-media, reconciliation with a violent past and their economic and cultural implications, the fight against AIDS, sexual emancipation, globalization and loss of cultural and national identity, uprooting, migration and economic exile which replaced major pre-existing concerns about violence, racial and gender discrimination, the relationship between literature and politics, or the role of ethics in literature.The same situation can be applied to eastern countries. Even though they were not "postcolonial" in the classical sense of the term, applicable to the former British, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch colonies, the "post-communist transition" through which they passed included the disarmament of a certain political and economic "occupation".People had to adapt to the new order, to the new reality, which was a complex process, a difficult one, that implied, many times, exile.Therefore, the purpose of my argument is to present what consequences can occur at the psychological level because of the attempt of adaptation of the characters to the new social and political order, by imitation, postcolonial and post-communist context. And here comes the question: does imitation facilitate adaptation? Although the logical answer would be yes, we will notice, by discussing the two texts, exactly the opposite.

Adieu, cowboy !

Author(s): Olja Savicevic Ivancevic / Language(s): French / Issue: 2-3/2016

L’été 200X est arrivé avant l’heure. Cela voulait dire une chaleur épouvantable, accumulée depuis le début du mois de mai : dans les parcs et les allées, les roses de mai expiraient.

Afektywna topografia współczesnego Tokio w powieści Yoriko Shōno „Kombinat zakrzywionej czasoprzestrzeni” (Taimu surippu konbināto )

Author(s): Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2015

Kubiak Ho-Chi reads Yoriko Shōno’s novel ‘Time Slip Kombinat” (1994) in the light of Brian Massumi’s theory of affect. She highlights the importance of affect and the cognitive potential of studying the emotional interaction between the individual and the place (Tokyo) in Shōno’s novel. She also emphasizes the correspondence between the chaos of the city and the chaos of feelings, which becomes apparent in the novelistic world after the industrial catastrophe. While Shōno is still untranslated into Polish, in Japan she is counted among the most revolutionary contemporary writers. Saturated with an atmosphere of surrealism and a nightmarish combination of dream and wakefulness, her experimental prose represents a postmodern Japan as well as a modern individual lost in the globalized world, filled with fear and lacking all faith in the future.

Afroditin ključ

Author(s): Alojz Majetic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 05-08/2017

Sama sam. Potpuno sama. Antonio je na pet dana otputovao u Marseilles na kongres mikrobiologa. Ako bude lijepo vrijeme ne smijem ostati u kući nego izaći u grad. Mogu ići gdje god poželim, ali tog dana kad budem u gradu moram posjetiti neki od muzeja ili otići na neku priredbu, najbolje u Lisinski na ozbiljan koncert. Za pokrivanje svih troškova ostavljen mi je novac u gotovini, nismo stigli otvoriti bankovni račun. Sredili smo kartu za prijevoz tramvajima i gradskim autobusima, imam godišnji pokaz, mogu se vozikati kamo god bude trebalo. Mogu pozvati taksi, tražiti da me odveze kamo god budem htjela, ne samo u gradu nego i mnogo dalje, čak i na more.

ALBUM DOROŠKIH

Author(s): Milica Micic Dimovska / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 432/2005

Ko je pravio redosled fotografija u njemu? Moja baka ne zna da odgovori na to pitanje. Za nju je važno da se redosled ne menja. O, to mora da je bio neko meni vrlo sličan. Mračan, mračan. Kako me ispunjavaju jezom te fotografije, naročito one na kojima su deca, tolika bezimena deca, postavljena na ćebad ili u stolac, deca sa loptom u krilu, deca koja su tek nau~ila da sede, vidi se to po onoj krutoj nameštenosti udova, koja samo što nije popustila, kao kada biste lutku postavili u sedeći stav prethodno joj savivši trup u pravougaoni položaj.

ALFRED I EMILI

Author(s): Doris Lesing / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 452/2008

Sunca dugačkih leta početkom prošlog veka obećavala su samo mir i bogatstvo, prosperitet i sreću da ne spominjemo. Niko nije pamtio ništa nalik tim letnjim danima kada je sunce stalno sijalo. Hiljade memoara i romana potvrđivalo je tu činjenicu, i stoga mogu pouzdano da izjavim da je te kasne subote u avgustu 1902. u selu Longerfild popodne bilo izvanredno. Povod je bila godišnja proslava Ujedinjene eseške i safoške banke, a mesto dešavanja nepregledno polje koje im je svake godine pozajmljivao farmer Redvej, koji je, inače, veći deo godine, tu držao krave.

An Exercise in Representing Memory: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

Author(s): Michaela Praisler / Language(s): English / Issue: 21/2014

Le discours du roman contemporain est, le plus souvent, contaminé par le facteur politique. ‚Surfacing‛ (1972), de Margaret Atwood, appartient précisément à cette tradition. Ce roman traite, explicitement ou implicitement, la question du nationalisme canadien et celle de l’idéologie féministe; toutefois, elles restent à l’arrière-plan sans s’imposer comme thèmes en elles-mêmes. Elles ne servent qu’à générer la construction progressive du personnage au premier plan, à appuyer la formulation d’une politique de l’écriture qui est encore influencée par la doctrine moderniste. L’accent est mis sur le monde intérieur, le monde au-delà de la matérialité, sur la mémoire et son pouvoir de faire revivre le passé et de donner, ainsi, de nouvelles significations au présent.

An interregnum: masculinity and British fiction at the turn of the century

Author(s): Katarzyna Wieckowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

The article offers a reading of the representation of the masculinity crisis at the end of the 20th century in selected British novels. The works by Irvine Welsh, Graham Swift, Niall Griffiths, and Ian McEwan are situated against the development of pro-feminist men’s writing and masculinity studies, as well as the mythopoetic men’s movement and Robert Bly’s bestselling Iron John: A Book About Men (1990). The article foregrounds the sense of an impasse that permeates the novels and that echoes the general feeling of in-betweenness characteristic for the turn of the century.