Ösvények. (II. részlet az Igazak című, készülő regényből)
Bene Zoltán's, Paths. Second Fragment From The Novel "Igazak".
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Bene Zoltán's, Paths. Second Fragment From The Novel "Igazak".
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Text by Petru Cimpoeșu - " Alte note pentru același viitor roman"
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The ugliness is determined through rejection, terrible, disgusting, unpleasant, revulsion, shameful, rude, horryfing, monstruous, smelly, pathetic, unattractive, deformed, uncomfortable etc. The ugliness itself destroys the identity, system, order, does not respect frontiers, positions and rules. The aesthetics of ugliness, artistic retelling of ugliness demonstrates the ordination, that beauty is inugliness. In that way we determined three different phenomena: the ugliness in itself, formal ugliness and the artistic representation of both phenomena. Contemporary artists use the ugliness, not as avangarde settings, but to point out of the world’s circulation through aesthetic effects of ugliness / aesthetic excitement for today’s recipient, who again percepts the divine proportion. Typical example is the director George Romero in the film The night of living dead. For Derida the relation towards being is not a spectacular relationship, but being has the other one in itself. Life is inside in differance / difference which links. The implication of the theory of Derida Me is heterogeneous /the other stays in me as an alter ego (for example Necropolis, The Great Pashaluks and The Peeper are autobiographical /auto –fictional novels with the other me of the author are texts with two texts inside, with two hands, with two peeps, judgments and feelings. According to Christeva, The Other becoming alter ego, saves “ Me”, through disgusting, terror, ugliness, not to disappear. Art becomes locus of an eminent critics of aesthetic education, an aesthetic education against aesthetic education. The confrontation of the aesthetic apologetic education and critics in the concrete artistic pragmas, are essential references for creating the role of the artist in the era of globalization and its instrumental pragmatism.
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In this article the authors examine one of the major philosophical problem – the problem of the transcendental love ability which can overcome time and space. Novel intertextuality, classical and non-classical understanding and manifestation of the transcendent are analyzed. On the basis of a detailed examination of these notions the authors make conclude that the transcendent lost its ontological and substantial features after the passage from classical to non-classical philosophy. Now the transcendent manifests itself as an important element of consciousness, because without it we can’t deal with actuality that consists of both local and global perspectives, searching for global community which reflects the eternal human necessity of belonging.
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The huge issue of identity representation in fiction seems to have gained ever more weight over the past decades by an unprecedented variety of problematics in the “ethnic writing” by authors from minority communities that have been marginalized before the favorable cultural shift occurred in the Canadian society of a recent past through more hospitable legislation. Such ethnic writers expand the social concept of identity more often than not by blending sexuality and race, nationality and ethnicity in their narrated experiences with the struggles for recognition and integration. Cultural division in such a society is the focus of this article, in conjunction with a Chinese family’s drama which particularly affects the child protagonist and her personal experiences during the process of acculturation in the novel Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates.
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Forgách András - The Execution (Fragment from the novel "Zehu").
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George Orwell’s works bear a political tone. Burmese Days is not only a narrative of Burma’s historical past, but a sociological document in which the cultural and social specificities of the country feature prominently. His realism is undoubtful (“I write because there is some lie I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention”, he would confess in Killing an Elephant) and telling the truth about his contemporary world was only the first stage before reaching the absolute visionary prowess of 1984 – a novel whose dystopian character has already been surpassed by reality. Besides learning from his criticism of imperialist politics, we argue that the lesson he gives in Burmese Days – about human relations and the horrible way in which corruption affects them is worthwhile learning.
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The article, which aims to analyze the world of women in the prose works of the contemporary Polish writer, falls within the scope of sociological studies of female artists. The author presents the artist, who is still little known to a wide audience – Liliana Hermetz, who debuted in 2014 with the book Alicyjka (the nationwide Conrad award for 2015). Hermetz shows the intimate world of women’s experiences, the courage and sensitivity of women experiencing traumas in life and everyday problems. It turns out that micro-matters, “bustle”, which was usually considered an unimportant subject, too trivial for literature, can be an interesting theme in artistic creativity. Hermetz shows women against the background of history that determines their fate, but at the same time catalyzes their strength, struggle for subjectivity and dignity.
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The review of: John Fuller. Loser (Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2021). ISBN 978-1-912524-74-7
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The recurrence of the history, myths, legends and popular beliefs of Bosnia found in the novel The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić facilitates the study of its mythical and magical hypostasis. Starting from the main critical approaches focused especially on its quality of historical novel, we propose the analysis of this literary work through the prism of two types of discourse designed to highlight the mythical and magical consonants of this novel’s substrate. The research analyzes, first of all, the historical discourse based on the rendering of the significant events in the reality of Bosnia between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. It coexists with the discourse that we have called mythic, which originated from local myths, legends and popular beliefs, and is also the object of study of the present paper. The insertion of myths, legends, archetypes of the Balkan area, magical realist elements and numerous fissures generate the mythical discourse. Organizing the argumentation according to the discourses identified reveals the particularities within the narrative. The fluctuations identified between mythization and demitization, between belief in the supernatural and the search for causality incline the balance in favor of the historical discourse, founded on the mythical one.
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Book-Review: Şalom Alehem, Întoarcerea de la iarmaroc, traducere de Olga Brates, Meer Sternberg, Iași: Polirom, 2018, 405 p., ISBN: 978-973-46-7728-3 (Raluca BOBOC)
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This paper aims to examine how a literary text is transferred to cinema, based on the example of Choi In-ho’s newspaper novel The March of Fools and its film adaptation by Ha Gil-jong. Here, adaptation is defined as the transfer of form and/or content from a source to a result, such as from a novel to a film, or any other adaptive compilation (Bruhn, Gjelsvik and Hanssen, 2013, p. 9). As Jorgen Bruhn writes, “should we not admit that the adaptive process is dialectical, and that the source text is changed in the process of adaptation as well?” (Bruhn, Gjelsvik and Frisvold Hanssen, 2013, p. 9). First of all, we will briefly present the author and the historical background at the time. Then, we will move onto the novel and its adaptation. At the same time, we will trace the presence of traditional elements in the literary text, as well as in its film adaptation, which stems from traditional Korean culture and classical literature.
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The paper analyzes Vlado Bulić’s novel “Putovanje u srce hrvatskoga sna” by observing its relationship with the poetics of the Croatian reality fiction as well as with the cultural paradigm of digimodernism proposed by the British cultural theorist Alan Kirby. Kirby claims that the key features of this new aesthetics are the construction of “the apparently real”, onwardness and convergence of the narrative and a new type of subjectivity which Kirby calls supersubjectivity. The paper presupposes that unlike the stable and privileged narrator which had dominated the stories and novels of the Croatian reality fiction, the subjectivity of Bulić’s narrator is shaped by the strong impacts of different types of discourses circulating the public domain and his fluid identity is the effect of the influence these discourses have on the individual. The analysis of the novel primarily focuses on the stylistics and textual features and procedures (e.g. interdiscursive and intermedial blending, digitalization of the narrative voice, virtualization of the text) due to which this novel represents a radical departure from the poetics of the Croatian reality fiction. By deconstructing the discourses that have been shaping the fabric of the Croatian social reality as well as the literary conventions that have enabled its mimetic transposition into literary texts, Bulić’s novel positions itself as the key text of the Croatian virtual realism.
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Review of: Maria Matios, Čerevyčky Božoji Materi (Pantofiorii Maicii Domnului), Lvov, Ed. Piramida, 2013, 208 p. (Maria Hoșciuc)
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With an impressively complex structure, a diversity of characters and themes, Pelevin’s novel The Life of Insects reveals itself as a social satire, which presents the paradoxical human nature at the intersection of insect biology and human psychology. Written in 1993, the novel depicts the transformations of the Russian national archetype, transformations made possible by the shift in the political and cultural paradigms of a nation that emerges from Communism to greet the new era of Capitalism. On this background, Pelevin discusses sensitive matters concerning the Russian society, thus questioning the much debated notion of Slavophilism among others, and draws attention to a more general theme, that of the human nature. The writer seems interested in revealing the continuous oscillation between the physical, more animalistic side, enforced by the wild capitalism, and the other philosophical, more introverted side, that emerges from the human cultural heritage. Combining highly contradictory elements – the concepts of the Newtonian paradigm and beliefs rooted in mysticism – the author creates collages which aim at recreating the hypothesis of a fragmented postmodern reality, found on the brick of chaos. The absurdity of existence, the diversity of elements, as well as the multitude of broken pieces of reality confer Pelevin’s writing the status of a traditional postmodernist novel.
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Viktor Pelevin is one of the most prolific writers in Russian literature, belonging to the postmodernist movement. Due to his unique style and originality in combining mythological elements from different cultures, Pelevin has been considered an unusual author, able to deconstruct previously established literary and cultural norms, so that the very next moment he could revive them or create new ones. His interest for Buddhism materializes itself in a series of novels and short stories which discuss different mythological themes. In the novel The Clay Machinegun, the author debates three main themes – life as an illusion, the theme of the void and the theme of reincarnation. The following article analyzes these elements from a postmodernist perspective, proving, thus, that the illusionary state of life reflects the subjective mental representations of reality, while the void is used by Pelevin to provide philosophical freedom to the individual. Also, through reincarnation, the author reveals the continuous recycle of human types and behaviors, noticed throughout history.
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Due to some critics’ disagreement regarding Viktor Pelevin’s writings, the main objective of this article is to analyze different literary processes which exist in the novels The Clay Machinegun and Generation P, in order to prove whether or not Pelevin is a Postmodernist writer. A start point in this research is to discuss the differences between Western and Eastern European Postmodernism, its basic traits which make this cultural phenomenon unique in Russia and, consequently, different from the same movement that appeared in Western Europe and the Americas. The research identifies and discusses the themes and the artistic features encountered in these novels and puts them in contrast with other writings as well. Also, a great attention is paid to the mystical realm, present almost in every novel or short story Pelevin writes.
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