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Çalıkuşu’nun 80. Yılında Reşat Nuri Güntekin’in Yazınımızdaki Yeri

Author(s): Nihat Taydaş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 121/2003

Reşat Nuri Güntekin (İstanbul 26 Kasım 1889-Londra 7 Aralık 1956), I. DünyaSavaşı yıllarında yani «büyük harb içinde» yazmaya başlamıştır. İlk yazıları,tiyatro eleştirileridir. Romana ve öyküye başlaması, bu savaşın sonlarında olmuştur.Reşat Nuri’nin yetişmekte olduğu yıllar içinde, Türk romanında ve öyküsünde,eski romancılardan Sami Paşazade Sezai, Servet-i Fünûn topluluğundan HalitZiya, Mehmet Rauf, Hüseyin Cahit, Ahmet Hikmet; Fecr-i Âti’den Yakup Kadri,bu kümelerin dışında olarak Hüseyin Rahmi, Ahmet Rasim, Safvet Nezihî, ÖmerSeyfettin, Halide Edip, Salâhattin Enis bulunuyordu.

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Ke vzniku a recepci Bassova protektorátního románu

Author(s): Erik Gilk / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2018

The present paper deals with the most extensive novel by Eduard Bass (1888–1946) Cirkus Humberto published in 1941. Although the novel was later produced as an operetta, a drama, a radio play and a TV series, literary historians have not inquired into this popular novel. On the other hand, there are many critical reviews of the period which document that the critical discussion was possible even in the third year of German occupation during the World War II. The study focuses on the genesis and critical reception of the novel and also attempts to interpret it as an update of the ideals of the Czech national revival. It is supposed that the conception of European history created by German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder was encoded in the novel. His theory on a positive future of Slavonic nations had a significant impact on the beginnings of the Czech national revival. A thematic connection between Cirkus Humberto and the first fiction Klapzubova jedenáctka by Bass can be also found here (1922).

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The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies

Author(s): Dime Mitrevski / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2017

The review of: LEITCH, Thomas, ed.: The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Oxford Handbooks. 784 s.

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Pekař Jan Marhoul ze strukturalistické a fikčně světové perspektivy

Author(s): Bohumil Fořt / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2015

The study deals with a famous work of Czech modernism, Pekař Jan Marhoul by Vladislav Vančura. The novel has been examined from several theoretical perspectives, nevertheless, the major knowledge of the novel comes from the Prague School structuralists, namely Jan Mukařovský, Zdeněk Kožmín and Mojmír Grygar. The study overviews their investigations and compares them to the result delivered by the application of fictional worlds theory to the novel.

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Obrazy ze života mezi ironií a snem. Máchova Marinka a kontury protorealismu v polovině 30. let 19. století

Author(s): Kateřina Piorecká / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2014

In the half of the 1830s the communication principles in the Czech language literary space underwent changes, as this space widened and differentiated in the competition of the parallel discourses – namely, fading away Classicism, strong entrance of the Romanticism and first realistic tendencies. It is just the genre of the „picture from life“ that enables us to distinctly perceive this dynamics: from its transfer to the Czech culture, i. e. the process of establishing and forming distinct variants in the frame of the mentioned discourses. Originally a journalistic genre, the „picture from life“ became popular belletristic form, substitute, in some measure, for the prestigious prosaic genres the story and the novel. It usually covered a short time period, was set in a clearly defined space determined by topographical motifs and it used first person narration by the autobiographical or the personal narrator. Mácha in his unfinished cycle Pictures from My Life led a dialogue with this trend, with his „Marinka“ standing in the middle of the literary field of the texts published in magazines in 1834–1835, which thematically and in language structure fulfill and modify the literary conventions of the „picture from life“ and reader expectations. At the same time, Marinka is its ironic „contrafactura“, which brought about one of the first controversies traditionally interpreted as the crystallization of the Romantic discourse. However, the controversy itself is rather an illustration of the parallel coexistence of several discourses and their mutual interaction, and thus an evidence of the possibility of penetrating literary methods, specific for different discourses, in one and the same literary work of art.

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The Spoils of an Existential Journey. An Interview with Writer Jiří Kratochvil

Author(s): Jiří Kratochvil,Zbyněk Fišer / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

An Interview with Writer Jiří Kratochvil.

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Romanická povaha Jungmannova překladu Chateaubriandovy Ataly

Author(s): Dalibor Tureček / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2013

The study deals with Jungmann’s 1805 translation of Chateaubriand’s Atala. It focuses on romantic elements in the translation. Although these elements did not provoke any immediate response in the Czech context, they still functioned as a complex potentiality. 1805 may thus be considered as a turning point in Czech literary romanticism.

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Dům s pevnými základy…? Reflexe padesátých let v normalizační próze

Author(s): Alena Šidáková Fialová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2012

This study describes the image of the post-war history created in the prose of the 1970s and 1980s, especially in those socio-historical novels which were published officially and fulfilled political and ideological demands (in agreement with the government’s official document titled “Lessons from the Crisis: Development in the Party and Society after the 13th Congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party”). It focuses especially on novels depicting the period of the beginning of the 1950s, usually called “Stalinism”, “Dogmatism” or “Cult of Personality”. It was interpreted as a victory, as well as the model for “the present” on the one hand, but, on the other hand, it was necessary to explain and re-interpret the events such as political injustice or forcible collectivization of agriculture. The study shows the fixed and preferred patterns and ideological model solutions, known from the older novels written in the socialist realism period, and describes the new possibilities, “the innovation” utilized by the Normalization writers to describe those periods and events. It characterizes the schemes, motifs and storylines often used to describe the period, and it also deals with the pattern of typical heroes (and the focus on intellectuals).

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Nástin poetiky prostoru ulic v prózách Miloše Urbana

Author(s): Jiří Kratochvíl / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2011

The street is one of the dominant city spaces in Miloš Urban’s novels Sedmikostelí and Lord Mord, and features in a minor way in his other fiction, notably his book of short stories Mrtvý holky. All these named works are connected not only with the city of Prague but also with the motif of revolt, through which Urban adopts a critical position regarding contemporary society. In Sedmikostelí the streets are characterized as a labyrinth in which the hero undergoes a journey of initiation leading to a revolt against the present chaotic society in order to restore the medieval order of the world. In the collection of short stories Mrtvý holky the motif of revolt is presented by characterizing the streets as commercialized space where the mutual anonymity, even apathy of people is growing. The most apparent connection between the motif of revolt and the topos of the street occurs in his novel Lord Mord; here the street becomes a place where two different opinions of the redevelopment of Prague are confronted. Urban’s criticism of present society culminates in this novel, in which real-life political figures are openly accused of using dubious practices. In contemporary Czech fiction Urban defines himself as an author with a critical attitude to the development of Czech society since November 1989.

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Její pastorkyňa jako venkovský román. Transformace pro populární četbu

Author(s): Jaroslava Janáčková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1-2/2010

In 1930, being retold by the author as a novel, G. Preissová’s most successful drama Její pastorkyňa (1890) entered the sphere of popular reading. It was at the time when the rural literature enjoyed popularity again owing to the so-called Ruralists, after having been previously shifted out by avant-garde influence to the periphery of literary life. The opera Jenůfa by L. Janáček got on the world’s prestigious stages and the original drama was first adapted for the screen already in the silent era (director R. Měšťák, 1929). Now, in competition with the celebrated artistic transformation of the composer Janáček, authors of the film (and continuous productions of her play), the author of the adapted novel chose the easiest way of communication with a perceiver – that is a book. In this epic narrative mode she both extended and simplified the story of the original play and added the happy ending.

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Fantasticul popular în nuvela „Vii” de N.V. Gogol

Author(s): Antoaneta Olteanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2010

The paper discusses the elements of folk imagery in Gogol’s novel Vij. It’s a common fact the huge influence of Ukrainian and Russian folklore in Gogol’s masterpieces and we tried to find out the folk roots of some motifs used by the Russian writer: demons, witches, vampires and so on, as one can read mainly in the novel above.

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Perdersi ne "La foresta-radice-labirinto". Calvino e la pedagogia del paesaggio per bambini

Author(s): Anna Małgorzata Brysiak / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2022

The paper examines La Foresta-Radice-Labirinto (1981), a fairy tale which is one of Italo Calvino’s latest and lesser known works. In what can be regarded as his testament, Calvino looks back on and revives the ecological commitment of his literary production and his attention to the complex relationship between nature and culture, which has been a prominent leitmotif of his writings (from The Baron in the Trees to The Cloud of Smog, and from the adventures of Marcovaldo to the Invisible Cities). The paper offers a detailed symbological and eco-critical analysis of the text, in order to examine an ‘ecology of mind’ as developed by Calvino, invariably sensitive to hybridisation and to the ongoing and often difficult relation between historical and environmental mutations. In doing so, the paper lists and explores the construction of images-icons and figures-types that make up what Calvino calls ‘a pedagogy of imagination’. The paper focuses on Calvino’s dedication to education through fairy tales as a primary form of experience, capable of conveying universal messages to a young readership, and on his longing for an authentic exposure to the environment, where getting lost means finding oneself and where chaos leads to a new order, founded on an ethical search for a more harmonious union of city, human beings and nature.

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Relaţia dintre artă şi Dumnezeu în concepţia lui N.V. Gogol. Studiu de caz: nuvela „Portretul”

Author(s): Ciprian Niţişor / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2010

Nikolai Gogol’s understanding of Art, Beauty, the role of the Artist in society, were strongly influenced by his religious beliefs. In his well-known novel, The Portrait, his views appear to be more transparent than in the others. For Gogol, the Artist has a huge responsibility, for his Art has the role of turning people towards God. The Painter himself should have a clean soul, because his Art depends on the purity of his soul. The one who does not fulfill his talent sins against God, since his talent is a gift from the Provicence. The purpose of this essay is to review all these ideas, as they are suggested in the novel The Portrait.

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Gheorghi Gospodinov – un maestru al provocărilor

Author(s): Cătălina Puiu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2010

From its very publishing in 1999, Georgi Gospodinov’s book Natural novel has been greatly applauded by the Bulgarian critics, being republished already six times as well as translated into over ten languages. Its topic is almost trite: a young couple on the verge of separation have to reach an understanding regarding sharing their mutual belongings. Hence the story seems to unreel very slowly and unforeseeably. Truth be told, the text represents a mixtum compositum, a fiction impossible to arrange in an apparent order, decipherable only in postmodern key. Natural novel is a book about Bulgaria of the 90’s, about how we were as well as about how we are.

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Симвoл кургa в твoрчeствe В. Нaбoкoвa

Author(s): Diana Tetean / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2010

In his article Искусствo литeрaтуры и здрaвый смысл (The Art of Literature and Common Sense) Nabokov starts from the premise that „common sense is as regular as a square and the most important events in life are wonderfully rounded, just as our round universe is seen through the eyes of a child who attends for the first time a circus performance”. This amazing roundness, which gives things and phenomena a secret meaning, which signals that they belong to a different space, was sought by Nabokov throughout his life. In a series of Nabokovian works we can find not only the most diverse round objects, but also circular structures. This paper analyzes from this perspective the autobiographical novel New Shores, the novels Mashenka, Invitation to a Beheading, and the short stories Chorb’s Return and The Circle.

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Andreï Makine între Rusia şi Franţa

Author(s): Antoaneta Olteanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2009

The paper discusses some features of Makine’s novels from the point of view of cultural anthropology. The Russian-French writer is a good example of a bearer of two cultures in which he developed himself, Russian, by birth, and French, by education. Being in the same time a Western writer, a representative of Western literature with all its features, he is also a profound Russian writer while describing his childhood and life in a Russian manner (considerations about the Russian soul, the opposition East/West, Russia/ West Europe and so on).

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Metafizică şi suprarealism. Iuri Mamleev

Author(s): Antoaneta Olteanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2007

Iuri Vitalievici Mamleev (născut în1931 la Moscova, în familia unui psihiatru) este unul dintre cei mai cunoscuţi scriitori ruşi contemporani (în primul rând prozator, dar el este şi poet, dramaturg şi filosof).

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Dimensiunea mitologică în romanele Olgăi Tokarczuk

Author(s): Antoaneta Olteanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2006

Romanul Străveacul este romanul unei creaţii în care ia naştere un univers inedit, o lume cu puternice trăsături reale, în care supranaturalul este camuflat, în care sunt concentrate moduri de viaţă examinate cu atenţie de-a lungul mai multor generaţii, pe fundalul unor perioade istorice pline de frământări. Jocul de-a creaţia şi de-a creatorul a atras-o pe Olga Tokarczuk, şi, în acest sens, ambele romane discutate oferă modele de creaţie asemănătoare.

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„Ultimele povestiri” ale Olgăi Tokarczuk sau despre efemeritate

Author(s): Joanna Kornaś / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2006

Olga Tokarczuk este una dintre cele mai remarcabile scriitoare poloneze contemporane. A debutat în 1993 cu romanul Călătoria Oamenilor Cărţii1 , pentru care a obţinut Premiul Editorilor Polonezi.

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The Issue of Marriage in Jane Austen’s Emma

Author(s): Emina Lagumdžija / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This article examines the issue of marriage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Jane Austen’s Emma. The article focuses on the issue of marriage in Victorian England in general illustrated with the marriages in the novel. Emma; the protagonist, gets involved in matchmaking while, at the same time, believing that she will never get married. Furthermore, the article aims to discuss the views, status and condition of the woman in family and marriage during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and to show how Jane Austen represents these views in the novel.

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