(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 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.

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 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.

An Interview with Alex Kudera, Author of Fight for Your Long Day

Author(s): Merritt Moseley / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Published in 2010, Fight for Your Long Day is a new kind of academic novel: one with an adjunct instructor at its center. Jeffrey J. Williams has described a “new wave” of academic novels, set in “a world from which professors have largely disappeared,” a variety of “anxiety narrative” consisting of “trying to hold onto one‟s perch, whether at work or at home, despite obstacles lining one‟s precarious path.”

An Interview with Lucian Bâgiu, Author of Bestiary: Oriental Salad with Peacock/Imaginary Academics

Author(s): Corina Selejan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

An Interview with Lucian Bâgiu, Author of "Bestiary: Oriental Salad with Peacock/Imaginary Academics"

Ana Maria Matute’nin Olgunluk Dönemi Romani Issiz Cennet’te İmgeler Ve Düşündürdükleri

Author(s): Sebnem Atakan / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 74/2013

It was an arduous work for women writers namely Carmen Martin Gaite, Carmen Laforet, Josefina Aldecoa and Ana Maria Matute to witness the Spanish Civil War and to pursue writing as a career within the oppressive regime of the post-war era. Ana Maria Matute, who published her first novel in 1948, and who has kept on writing since then, has not only endeavored to fulfill the responsibilities as a wife and a mother but also made great sacrifices to be able to continue her career as a writer, a situation faced by many women writers. Looking back to her childhood years where she finds her inspiration, Matute questions the past in her novel Uninhabited Paradise, a novel which she wrote in her eighties. The idea that human personality and character are formed in childhood is a widely accepted and acknowledged perception regarding the human psyche. Indeed, it is during our early years that bitter-sweet life experiences, the first observations of the environment, and essential aspects that influence and shape our view of life and personality are inscribed deeply into our psyche. With her novel Uninhabited Paradise, Matute shares with us, the reader, that it is the cruel and bloody war that enabled her to experience the loss of innocence, in other words the “paradise”, a notion which is only experienced in childhood years.

Anto Stanić, Bili su k’o braća, Fojnica – Kreševo 2015.

Author(s): Mato Nedic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 46/2017

Review of: Anto Stanić "They Were Like Brothers", Štamparija Fojnica,Fojnica – Kreševo, 2015. by: Mato Nedić

Apelacja

Author(s): Marek Bronicki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2015