FEMININE CHARACTERS IN VASILE VOICULESCU’S STORIES

Author(s): Iuliana Voroneanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

Voiculescu builds his feminine characters with force and grace, adding besides specific elements to femininity, fascination, illusion and magic. Some identify themselves with human beings, conscious, deities, witches, or living creatures or feminine elements of nature, thus falling into the category of initiating characters of the fantastic trauma that is about to make changes to the second category, the characters of the type experimenter or recipient of the ongoing epic adventure. Magic experiences stimulate the desire to overcome and change fate; in the Romanian folk tradition, an important place is occupied by the spells, charms and ghosts that invoke with symbolic values every little thing in the surrounding world.

Aforizmi - Ivan Bradvica

Author(s): Ivan Bradvica / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 113-114/2023

Aphorisms by Ivan Bradvica

FAMILY RELATIONS IN POSTWAR GERMAN SHORT STORIES

Author(s): Roxana Rogobete / Language(s): German Issue: 18/2019

The present study (Familie und Geschlechterverhältnisse in den Kurzgeschichten der Nachkriegszeit) focuses on several German short stories from the postwar period, texts which are relevant for their depiction of family and gender roles in the German society. After the Second World War, the German-language literature portrays families affected by trauma, torn apart by the war, where gender and family roles are disintegrated or wrecked and values such as compassion or love ar not taken into consideration anymore.

ORPHEUS IN INFERNO BY NICOLAE BREBAN

Author(s): Gabriela Ciobanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 19/2019

The short story, unlike the novel, can be analyzed as a miniature work in which every detail contributes to the rendering of meaning and the creation of a network of symbols that suggest the transition from the real to the mythical realm. Turning to magic and folklore, to universal myths is a way in which the 60’s writers trespass the norms of "realism", using ludicrous and seemingly absurd associations. The story ”Orpheus in Inferno” by Nicolae Breban is a rewriting of the ancient Greek myth in a unique and modern way. The result is the accumulation of multiple meanings. The story describes both the place the writer occupies in the communist society and the process of creation itself.

THE COMPENSATORY SPACES IN SADOVEANU’S SHORT STORIES

Author(s): Simona-Marilena Crăciun (Pogan) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 19/2019

This study discusses the problem on compensatory spaces in two of Sadoveanu’s short stories collections (Vechime and Împărăția apelor). Compensatory spaces can be found in the heart of the nature, but only ig the human being is able to understand which are the meanings of this chaste universe. Enjoying fishing and hunting, Sadoveanu himself spent a lot of time in the heart of the nature, understanding the purpose of symbolic spaces such as islet, pond, lake or river, mountains or forests. Sadoveanu took over these symbolyc spaces, becoming an initiate. The process of initiation in the compensatory spaces involved several steps. These three steps are highlighted in this study.

EROS AND THANATOS

Author(s): Mirela Letiția Nistor (Zăvoian) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 20/2020

The short story "The Forest Woman" by Ioan Slavici captures the drama of the soul of two young people in love, unable to respond their feelings due to an unwritten social code. Iorgovan, a rich young man, falls in love with Simina, the girl who comes every year to their farm, during the harvest time, together with his father and other forest living people. But, although his feelings are unstoppable, the boy is not able to face his father. The first who refuses to witness this plot is Neacșu, Simina's father, who leaves the household. But in a short time, he dies of cholera, and this tremendous sorrow induces Simina to leave the house and to give up Iorgovan for good. From this point, things get worse, and up to the tragic end of the boy, it is just a little bit.

A név kátyú, vaddisznódagonya, omladék, szerelem – 33.

Author(s): Imre Wirth / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 864/2023

A series of short stories by Imre Wirth.

Történet, ami nem kezdődik el (I. rész)

Author(s): Miklós György Száraz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 864/2023

Short prose by Miklós György Száraz.

Történet, ami nem kezdődik el (II. rész)

Author(s): Miklós György Száraz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 865/2023

Short prose by Miklós György Száraz.

A név kátyú, vaddisznódagonya, omladék, szerelem – 34.

Author(s): Imre Wirth / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 866/2023

A series of short stories by Imre Wirth.

A banya levelei (Novellák)

Author(s): Ágnes Makó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 866/2023

Short stories by Ágnes Makó

Etológia

Author(s): Márk Kiszely / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 866/2023

Short story by Márk Kiszely.

CORRESPONDENCE IN THE SHORT STORIES OF LIVIU REBREANU

Author(s): Oana Carina Cîrcu (Crișan) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 20/2020

The short stories of Liviu Rebreanu have a strong social character and the objectivity plays an important role. The peasant is the main subject and the events are trivial. The details are significant and parts of real life are presented. There is a close correspondence between the short stories and the novels.

Сърната

Author(s): Prtar Donevski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

ТЕАТАР НА ПЛАЖИ ЕЛИ

Author(s): Sonja Atanasijević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 539/2023

ДВЕ ПРИЧЕ

Author(s): Dejan Acović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 539/2023

ANGELIC AND DEMONIAC FEMININE CHARACTERS IN VASILE VOICULESCU’ S STORIES

Author(s): Iuliana Voroneanu (Păunescu) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 21/2020

The female character in Vasile Voiculescu's work is a delicate and complex subject, even restrictive, but it is necessary to explore the possibilities that arise from the Stories selected for this purpose. An important role in this endeavor is a continuous “recitation” at the individual level. It is essential to carefully identify and analyze both the female characters and their symbolic weight. Most of the female characters come from the village world, where the negative effects of civilization have not yet arrived, they still have that purity of the simple woman, in paradise, originally isolated from civilization and being the subject to the rules of the patriarchal community. Playing a minor, limited but very well defined role, they are the factor that causes unexplained psychic phenomena that have consequences on the being and the psychic. Voiculescu created and integrated these characters in the performance of the action, trying to compensate either with the disorder of the outer and inner world, or with the inner conflicts of the other acting characters. Starting from the divine feminine model, the grieving mother, the widow, the woman suffering from the disease, the victim of society, reaching the muse, the woman as an ideal projection of perfection and finally, to the witch, the faces of women invoked in the Stories correspond to personal aspirations, or to some states of spiritual crisis, determining searches that can only be contradictory and dramatic.

THE INFLUENCE OF SPACE ON THE DESTINY PATH OF THE CHARACTERS FROM SADOVEANU’S SHORT STORIES

Author(s): Simona-Marilena Crăciun (Pogan) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 21/2020

In this article, we aim to analyse the influence of space on the destiny of the characters in Mihail Sadoveanu’s short stories. The theoretical framework of our article is represented by elements found in specialized texts of writers such as Ernest Bernea, Lucian Blaga, or Mircea Eliade. The space can be discovered only due to ability of the character to understand its unwritten laws. If the character discovers this ability, then the space will influence him in a positive way. Sadoveanu himself is an example of character in this category, due to his desire to understand the meanings that a new space implies. This essay also contains numerous quotations that refer to all the aspects we have already mentioned.

BIJELE RAVNICE UKRAJINE

Author(s): Nusret Idrizović / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Montenegrine Issue: 3-4/2022

Short story by Nusret Idrizović: "BIJELE RAVNICE UKRAJINE"

DADOR

Author(s): Lidija Pavlović-Grgić / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian Issue: 3-4/2022

Fairytale by Lidija Pavlović-Grgić: "Dador".