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Les désorientés maaloufiens entre la terre natale et les terres d’exil

Author(s): Vesna R. Cakeljić / Language(s): French Issue: 3/2017

“A stranger, always a stranger, unavoidably, in the land of my birth as well as in the land of exile”, said the protagonist of Amin Maalouf’s latest novel The Disoriented, weaved around the recurring Maalouf’s topics such as exile and identity. With an image of an ambassador of migrants, the author examines the relationship between those who left their country because of war, and those who stayed, loyal to their native land but faced with tough choices. This article first tackles the attitude of the French writer towards various notions of the exile concept, and then it sets out some paths of reflection concerning real or supposed affiliations of this novel’s characters trapped between different realities of a multi-ethnic state in which various advocates of tribal views of identity confront each other. Are those who have lost their Orient really “disoriented”? What is the impact of the native affi liation on the identity construction? Who is more “Levantine” in The Disoriented: those who have stayed and replaced their cosmopolitan visions with a narrow affiliation or those who have left in order to live elsewhere taking with them the substratum of a plural identity open for the universal?

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Symfonia smutku – Valse Mélancolique Olhy Kobylańskiej

Author(s): Iwona Boruszkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The article is a proposition of interpretation Valse Mélancolique – short stories written by the Ukrainian women writer Olha Kobylianska (1863–1942). This is an example of literary research devoted to synthetic overview of the phenomenon of insanity / mental illness in Ukrainian Modernism literature (late nineteenth and early twentieth century). Insanity, being one of the main themes of modernist literature, today does not live to see a proper discussion in the Ukrainian literary studies. The resulting so far work has moved this issue only into a selective and fragmentary way, always on the margins of the main range of research interests, thus far definitely without exhausting problem. Madness constituted for Kobylianska one of the most important and dramatic forms of exclusion, hence the belief that the mentally ill is not so much a sick man, as enslaved, subjected to the pressure of power, deprived of the right to subjectivity, of their own forms of existence.

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Pani Dalloway Virginii Woolf i jej postmodernistyczna i neomodernistyczna progenitura

Author(s): Katarzyna Szeremeta / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The following paper is devoted to Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s seminal novel, and both implicit and explicit contemporary rewritings it inspired. It focuses mainly on the narrative, stylistic patterns and thematic concerns that so far have been discussed only fragmentarily and offers detailed overview of the originating texts in terms of features of Woolfian style that they deconstruct and construct anew. By pointing out the nature of intricate narrative, stylistic and thematic interdependencies between Mrs Dalloway and contemporary literary texts the hereby paper shows how these generically versatile texts amplify and recontextualize whole gamut of Woolfian concerns and which elements are subject to allusion, imitation or reinterpretation. The analyses conducted in this article lead to the conclusion that despite its complex narrative patterns, which may pose a challenge to a contemporary reader, Mrs Dalloway has inspired a proliferation of neo- and postmodern texts which imitate and reinterpret Woolfi an narrative and stylistic patterns as well as suppressed notions of sexual identity, among other thematic concerns. Also, rewriting Mrs Dalloway within postmodern and neomodern paradigm, contemporary texts prove that modernist form did not become used, but continues to inspire both high and popular literature in the new spatial-temporal, cultural, and historical context.

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Komizm złożony w budowie świata surrealistycznego w Jesieni w Pekinie Borisa Viana

Author(s): Tomasz Wojewoda / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The objective of present article is to draw attention on important role of comical element in creating surrealistic world, present in the prose of Boris Vian (1920-1959) – one of the most original French writers in the twentieth century. As a exemplificative material the author used Autumn in Peking, one of the most famous and most representatives Vian’s novels. Employing the classification proposed by Polish aesthetician Bohdan Dziemidok (elementary comism vs. complex comism), the author, placing himself in the hermeneutical spirit, analyses the novel’s narration in order to find various elements of complex comism, revolving around these comical elements, which are the result either of the novel’s composition or of diegesis’ construction. The present analyse is preceded by a short historical-literary reflexion which objective is to present a rich literary production of Boris Vian in the large context of times during which he used to write. Vian was indeed a writer whose literary idiom was influenced by various philosophical movements of those days – surrealism, nihilism, existentialism. A significant element of the article is the hypothesis according to which Boris Vian can be numbered among the artists using in his writing the bricolage technique – the concept proposed in different context by Claude Lévi-Strauss in his work entitled The Savage Mind (1962).

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The Past as a Partitura: Peter Carey’s Historical Novels

Author(s): Barbara Klonowska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

In a literary text, repetition of previous motifs may constitute the poetics of a text, shape its themes and contribute to its interpretation. The following article will try to trace these aspects of repetition in four historical novels by Peter Carey which use it to both structure their texts and convey their specific political ideas. Referring to Oscar and Lucinda, Jack Maggs, True History of the Kelly Gang and Parrot and Olivier in America, it argues that Carey’s fiction uses repetition as a strategy to both inscribe his works in literary and cultural traditions and to revisit and revise them in order to make room for other readings and interpretations.

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The Eternal Recurrence of (Hi)Story: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Author(s): Bożena Kucała / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

This article analyses the structural and thematic repetitions in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. Similar motifs and character types are re-used in the novel’s circular rather than linear structure. It is argued that, while staging a dialectic of sameness and difference, Cloud Atlas eschews the Platonic hierarchy of a model and its copy and blurs the distinction between the real and the fictional. All the six interlocked narratives that build the novel may be regarded as artefacts, remediated and encased in other artefacts. The same material is reconfigured in an endless cycle, which, as the article argues, harks back to the second, Nietzschean model of repetition distinguished by J. Hillis Miller in Fiction and Repetition.

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Two Layers of Repetition in Kate Morton’s The House at Riverton

Author(s): Kinga Latała / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The article discusses the two layers of repetition in Kate Morton’s The House at Riverton (2006) and their mutual correlations. The first layer concerns the setting of some parts of the novel, namely the 1910s and 1920s. The past is relived in fiction, fuelled by the nostalgia for the pre-World War II days and the enduring interest in early 20th-century aristocrats, socialites, and war poets. The second layer involves the reconstruction of the past by means of a historical film and the reminiscences of Grace, the protagonist, who at the dusk of her life attempts to revive the tumultuous events she witnessed in her youth.

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Exile in Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Author(s): Aristi Trendel / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

Exile in Julia Alvarez's novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is polymorphous and incremental. It involves politics, culture, race, gender, ethics, ontology and language. If homelessness haunts the narrative, homesickness is equally poignant and is not cured by the return of the native. Exile forges nomadic consciousness in the narrative. This paper inquires into the multiple facets of exile linked with what Alvarez's main character refers to as “a violation in the centre of her art.” Edward Said, Barbara Cassin, and Ronald Laing provide the theoretical framework of the paper.

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Ciało jako fundament tożsamości? Próby (re)konstrukcji kobiecej tożsamości na podstawie powieści Siomga ukraińskiej pisarki Sofiji Andruchowycz

Author(s): Aniela Radecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The Author analyses Sophia Andrukhovych’s novel ‘Siomga’ (2007) – the story of the leading character, Sofija (the author gave the protagonist her own name) is based in large part on body memory. A young woman, whose first experiences with her own carnality and sexuality occur during the years of the political turn, recounts the events of childhood and adolescence, and her world is ruled by emotions and feelings. In her memories, Andrukhovych’s protagonist evokes the images of sexual violence against women and children and the story itself ends with the dismemberment of her body by a man who craved her viscera. Through the act of depraving of the body the author expressed the inability to reconstruct one’s own identity in the Ukrainian postmodern, post-colonial and post-totalitarian reality. The novel can be analysed not only from the perspective of post-colonial and post-totalitarian studies but also within the framework of corporeal feminism.

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Šest desetljeća od Gorkoga sunca

Author(s): Ivan Sivrić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 95-96/2018

Ovogodišnji (2018.) su Grgurovi hukovi bili posvećeni Anđelku Vuletiću, bh i hrvatskom književniku (Trebimlja – Ravno 1933.) u povodu šezdesete obljetnice njegova književnoga stvaralaštva. On je istaknuti član Društva hrvatskih književnika Herceg-Bosne te nam je dužnost i zadovoljstvo posvetiti neke retke tom povodu. Kad je riječ o obljetnici, uglavnom se spominje kako je njegov prvi roman i njegovo prvo djelo Gorko sunce objavljeno prije šezdeset godina. […]

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Dryf - Podmiot w kryzysie i ofiara rozpadu świata

Author(s): Agata Zawisza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The author of the article Drift – the Person in Crisis and the Victim of the Decaying World has raised the issue of whether it is possible to completely drift, and how the person-drift copes with the surrounding reality. In addition, the issue of interpersonal communication is discussed and whether it is possible to get rid of all certainties and reference points from the environment? The author's reflections were based on a collection of stories by Natasha Goerke, Fractale.

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Knjige koje su obilježile 2017. godinu u Češkoj

Author(s): Hasan Zahirović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2018

Reviews of: Jahim Topol: Jachym Topol: Citlivÿ človek (Osjetljivi čovjek). Torst, Praha, 20172. Milena jesenska: Krizovatky (ed. Mariejirâskovâ). (Raskrsnice) Praha: Torst, 2016 3. Bianka Belova: Jezero. Host, Brno, 2016 4. Zbigniev Čendlik and Marketa Zahradnikova: Postel, hospoda, kostel (Krevet, kafana, crkva). Argo, Praha, 2016 5. Marcela Linkova and Nadja Strakova: Bytova revolta:Jakženy dëlaly disent (Revolt po stanovima) , Praha: Academi, 2017 6. Petr Borkovec: Lido di Dante. Praha: Fra, 2017 7. Katedžina Madjarkova: Madarkovâjustÿnka a asistenčni jednorožec (Justinka i asistent jednorog) Praha: Albatros, 2017

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Identity and Otherness in the Novel ”Ambigen”. An Existence File of Octav Șuluțiu

Author(s): Mirela Moldoveanu / Language(s): English Issue: 07/2015

“Ambigen” by Octav Şuluţiu is a diary type novel, a subjective, first person confession like the ones of Max Blecher, Mihail Sebastian. Character-narrator explores, analyzes his deepest, hidden emotions, feelings, weaknesses, defects, demons, impossible loves, visions of the world. It is actually an investigation of the subconscious states of a manwoman who hides two genders: male and female, hence the dual nature of the character, bigender. There is an inner battle between the character's masculine and feminine side. The woman inside him needs another woman he can own and the man inside wants a strong woman who can have the male features that he lacks.

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Taronimy w komizmie językowym w Wojnie polsko-ruskiej pod flagą biało-czerwoną Doroty Masłowskiej i ich przekład na język rosyjski

Author(s): Joanna Orzechowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 53/2018

Erroneous mixing of linguistic units is one of the most common departures from the norm in novels. This linguistic device has two functions: 1) it presents the characters in the novel, 2) it constitutes a great source of puns and linguistic humor. Such misused words are known as taronyms. This paper presents their use in Dorota Masłowska’s Snow white and Russian red (Wojna polskoruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną) with reference to adverbs. The taronyms were identified among paronyms, synonyms, antonyms and adverbs from the same thematic group. Next, it was analyzed if and how this taronymy was reflected in the Russian translation of the presented novel.

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Pravosuđe u djelu Franza Kafke

Author(s): Šejla Karabašić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3/2013

Kafke Kafka, der in jeder seiner Biographien, die jemals über ihn verfasst wurden, als Fremder und Außenseiter beschrieben wurde, war der Meinung, dass alle natürlichen Verhältnisse in dieser Welt einen versteckten Sinn, der aus einer anderen Welt stammt, beinhalten. Die weltlichen Dinge tauchen bei Kafka mit einer großen Spur des Schrecklichen auf, diese verwandelt er in eine neue Welt mit einer eigenen unerbittlichen Kausalität. Diese Welt weist einen großen Grad der Präzesion und Detailkunst auf, aber diese Konstruktion entspricht nicht den Normen des menschlichen Verstandes, sondern drückt eine eigensinnige Logik Kafkas aus, welche ihn wie eine Muse inspiriert, bei den einfachen Menschen löst es allerdings ein Gefühl von Irrationalität aus. Da der Mensch aber dazu neigt, rational nach einer Lösung zu suchen, versuchen die Literaturwissenschaftler Kafkas Rätsel zu lösen und ihnen festen Boden in der realen Welt unter die Füße zu stellen, denn trotz allem scheinen uns die Dinge in Kafkas Werken von unserer Wirklichkeit nur durch eine Papierwand getrennt zu sein. Ob nun Kafkas Werk ein modernes Mythos, eine Allegorie oder symbolhafte Parabel zu bedeuten mag, ist ein Punkt, um welches sich die Literaturwissenschaftler streiten und wohl weiterhin streiten werden, wobei das enge Verwandschaftsverhältnis zwischen Mythos und Symbol nicht abgestritten wird (Lurker 1988: 497). Der einzige Fehler wäre wohl das Werk einfach nur als das eine zu verstehen, denn Allegorie bedeutet die Darstellung eines greifbaren Bildes, wogegen die Symbolik bzw. der Mythos auch den Geist umfasst und der Geist kann nicht als ein optisches Bild materialisiert werden, es muss als reiner Geist auftreten und lebt als solches in uns weiter und regt uns zu weiteren Überlegungen an.

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Dijalektika (gino/andro) teksta u l'écriture féminine Jasne Šamić

Author(s): Azra Verlašević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2011

Logprose as a model of literary esthetics of reality in a novel “Mraz i pepeo” of Jasna Šamić, is a sort of a challenge to the genre of the novel. Playing on “natural flowing together” of female authorship and text, the novel by its diary orientation simultaneously insists on the inseparability, but it also wants to undermine it. Simulating indirect convergence of autobiographical material and aesthetic forms prejudice to the principle of credibility, but does not exclude it, it remains one of the fundamental assumptions of “l’écriture feminine” by Jasna Šamić. Ontological closeness of women and writing, and women’s privilege of direct contact with life is a figure of reading the novel, which is invested in these plitting of living and a written undertaking, or, into the question: Why would I not talk about myself, as if that ‘self ’ is no longer ‘I’? The firmness of “l’écriture féminine” is an echo of the Father’s language that by ironic and subversive smile evokes and makes present the feminine perspective.

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Popularna i visoka kultura kroz umjetnost

Author(s): Šeherzada Džafić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2011

Ever since Romanticism, when the novel began to take over the role of the dominant genre in literature, an artist became one of the main themes and preoccupations: an artist, a poet, a painter, a composer – all typical characters from that period until today. In the society an artist usually becomes social or psychological outsider and a loner. The problem arises when you need to merge two identities - a man and an artist. The artist is created in the man, but one part of the man in never changed - although our experiences are constantly changing, a core of our personality that is hard to describe, always remains the same despite all the changes we are exposed to.

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Le Сунклитъ Des Portes d'Alexandre Dans La Chronique De Kiev

Author(s): André Vaillant / Language(s): French Issue: 1/1956

Sous l'année 1096, aussitôt après l'insertion du Poučenie de Vladimir Monomaque dans le manuscrit de Lavrentij, la de Kiev reproduit en abrégé un récit de la Révélation de Méthode de Patara relatif aux »peuples impurs« qu'Alexandre refoule dans les régions du nord et qu’avec l’aide de Dieu il enferme derrière deux montagnes dont il barre le défilé par des portes d’airain. C’est la légende des »portes de la Caspienne«, du fameux Derbend au nord du Caucase et de sa »muraille d’Alexandre«. [...]

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SOCIAL STATUS AS AN ASPECT IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Author(s): Selma Slezović Mehmedović / Language(s): English Issue: 13 (3)/2014

This paper will be dealing with two novels, Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights. Themes started in this paper are social status in English society and its importance. Special overview is made towards main characters in these two novels, Catherine and Heathcliff, furthermore Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. Deeper is researched social status as an aspect and consequence in both of these novels. Both authors dealt with woman position in society, as well as with the difficulties woman has faced daily. This paper has a goal to define importance of social status in novels Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice. Also, paper strives towards analyses of social bonds and understandings.

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ABDAGIĆEV ROMAN FENIKS KAO ENCIKLOPEDIJA BOŠNJAČKOG TRAGIZMA NA BALKANSKOM POLUOTOKU

Author(s): Kemal Džemić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 13 (3)/2014

The subject of this paper is a review of Abdagic’s artistic transposition of the Bosniak tragic in the novel “Fenix” in very complex social and historical circumstances in the Balkans from the time Ottomans left until the second half of the 20th century. The writer published the first part of Fenix (Sacir’s life before the proclamation) in 1971 and then the other part Fenix (Sacir’s life and the proclamation)was published in 1972. Abdagic considered this novel his lifetime best piece of art, which it definitely is having in mind the aesthetic qualities and reach of this enormous Romanesque structure which was shaped by modern stream of consciousness with notable psychological, philosophical, aesthetic and intellectual discourse. It is easy to notice the influence of Dostoyevsky, Proust, Joyce, Selimovic whom he all read with pleasure as well as Freud’s Psychoanalysis. Fenix is based on historical grounds, but it certainly contends to being labeled as a historical novel. Literary theorists will find traces of stream of consciousness, subjective psychological novel, novel about artists in this piece of prose. Nevertheless, Fenix represents a real refreshment and revelation of modern novel in Sandzak-Bosniak literature of the 20th century. The writer follows the story of Bosniak people and Sacir as the hero in the Balkans through four tumultuous stages: * The weakening and the end of the Ottoman rule in the Balkans * Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, i.e. Yugoslavia * The Second World War and occupation * Postwar communist-socialist Yugoslav restoration.

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