Gendručio Morkūno kūryba vaikams ir jo „Grįžimo istorija“ literatūros teologijos požiūriu

Author(s): Asta Gustaitienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 1/2017

The aim of this article is to investigate children’s literature works by Gendrutis Morkūnas, focusing on the semantics of his problem prose piece Grįžimo istorija (Story of Return) written in 2007. Gendrutis Morkūnas wrote all his five books within a span of a few years at the beginning of the 21st century, and they are included in the list of the 500 best books for children by Lithuanian authors, while the author’s books Iš nuomiško gyvenimo (Bits from a Tenant’s Life), Blusyno pasakojimai (Stories from a Flea Place) and the aforementioned Grįžimo istorija (Story of Return) are among the first hundred entries of said list. What is the importance of the aspect of Catholic theology in Morkūnas’s works? To what extent does it help in revealing the subtlest meaning of his writings? When defining the theology of literature as a literary school of investigation, we mostly refer to the theoretical insights of art historian and religious philosopher Alejandro R. García-Rivera and his concept of the theology of art; the theoretical insights of psychologist Tobin Hart, literature scholars Sharon A. Stinger and Dalia Čiočytė and philosophers Luc Ferry and Arūnas Sverdiolas were also important in defining the problematic field of this article. The children’s literature works of Morkūnas are frugal in disclosing Christian motifs explicitly; however, the Christian underlayer is not to be ignored – the artistic reality of the works is interwoven with well-known biblical metaphors and images. A person’s name as a sign of one’s dignity gains its importance as an outstanding motif that unfolds very much like in John 10:3, the antinomy of the way and the path is recurrent in the works, together with the sometimes very persistent motif of knocking etc. These aspects, characteristic of Morkūnas’s works, manifest themselves in his book Grįžimo istorija (Story of Return). Here the author presents a story about a girl named Vilija – an original character to be memorized – who embodies a power characteristic of a small girl, which, as defined by Hart, brings the child close to experiencing God: she likes to observe, is wise and capable of wondering, prone to look for answers and able to guess what the adults are thinking, to recognize their most profound needs, and she is able see what is not to be seen, what had happened some time ago and what will always remain within linear time.

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.

Интертекстовый анализ сборника рассказов Виктора Пелевина «Ананасная вода для прекрасной дамы»

Author(s): Tomas Cenys / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2019

This article aims to analyze Viktor Pelevin’s collection of short stories Pineapple water for the Fair lady in the frame of intertextual theory. The analytical method used in this article is based on a typology developed by Gerard Genette. Using this typology, an analysis of transtextual connections present in the text was conducted. The analysis of paratextual connections in the texts made it possible to make an assumption that all the novels are connected by a specular structure. A closer inspection of the intertextual connection and references presented in the text established a connection with certain works of Nabokov. These references to various works of Nabokov allow to view Pelevin’s collection of short stories not as thematically disconnected narratives but as one cohesive entity.

Gandhian Fasting and Cultural Indigestion in Jeffrey Eugenides’ “Air Mail”

Author(s): Ana-Blanca Ciocoi-Pop / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

“Air Mail” is one of the ten stories included in Jeffrey Eugenides’ latest collection of stories, Fresh Complaint. Drawing on one of the characters in his third novel, The Marriage Plot, as well as on his own experiences in India working as a volunteer alongside Mother Theresa, “Air Mail” tells the story of young (and idealistic) Mitchell Grammaticus, who leaves the West in order to explore India, Bangkok, and a tropical island in the Gulf of Siam, where he finally succumbs to dysentery (as well as to thoughts regarding the futility of existence). Ripe in irony and biting sarcasm, coupled with a surprising tenderness and empathy, which are the landmarks of Eugenides’ writing, the story is a tongue-in-cheek debate on the East-West cultural conflict, as well as on the numerous (false) conceptions Westerners harbor regarding foreign cultures, paradigms and ideologies.

Запад по славянски

Author(s): Nedyalko Zhelev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2020

Idiolekt Wojciecha Piotrowicza: słownictwo prozy autobiograficznej

Author(s): Kinga Geben,Irena Fedorowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

Wojciech Piotrowicz (born in 1940) is a Vilnius poet, prose writer, translator, journalist, social and cultural activist. He is the author of several poetry collections and volumes of memoirs. Research on which this paper is based consists of two main parts: we present the writer’s biography, which introduces a representative of the Polish intelligentsia in Lithuania, and an analysis of his lexis from his collection of short stories Moja czasoprzestrzeń (My Space-Time) (2015). The aim of the research is to investigate the lexical layers in the idiolect of the writer. Piotrowicz’s idiolect is the domain where the erudite vocabulary of the standard language blends in with the dialectical vocabulary of the Švenčionys district, in which words of rural life are frequent. In the vocabulary of his idiolect, we distinguish the following groups of lexemes: words from family language, archaisms, dialect words, and postwar Russian borrowings, referred to as “Soviet words”. The multi-layer nature of Piotrowicz’s idiolect is a result of a complicated reality on the border between cultures, languages, times, and evidence of changes in social stratification. To summarize the research results, it can be stated that the analysis of 179 words (phrases) from the writer’s individual language shows a world of concepts, thoughts, and values that are characteristic of representatives of the intelligentsia of peasant origin, born in the 1940s. The authors of the paper consider that this study is only a contribution toward determining the peculiarities of the Polish language spoken by the intelligentsia in Lithuania in the 20th century, and that this article does not exhaust all issues of Wojciech Piotrowicz’s idiolect.

List Janusza Pierzchały w związku ze śmiercią Piotra M. Boronia, Londyn 8 stycznia 2018 r.

Author(s): Janusz Pierzchała / Language(s): Polish Issue: 52/2018

Sörténelem – Még egy Árpád-házi sör, avagy Oslavany feltámadása

Author(s): Norbert Haklik / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 833/2022

‘Monuments Longer Lasting than Brass’? Recollection of Funerary Texts and Their Female Heroes: Edition of Fragments from the Resources of the Archives of the Museum of Distinguished Polish Women in Lviv, 1929–1939

Author(s): Iwona Dadej,Anna Nowakowska-Wierzchoś / Language(s): English Issue: 124/2021

This text was prepared as part ofthe project “Patriotki jutra? Działania niepodległościowe, postawy obywatelskie i praca edukacyjna Polek we Lwowie (1863–1939) w świetle materiałów zebranych przez Muzeum Zasłużonych Polek we Lwowie oraz Ossolineum. Edycja i komentarz” (National Programme for the Development ofthe Humanities, no. 11H 18 0367 86).

Angela Carter’s Duplicitous Dolls

Author(s): Eliza Claudia Filimon / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2014

Angela Carter’s fiction offers readers an example of the way male fetishism transforms woman into an object, a toy seduced by other toys, a living doll. The majority of her tales take up the theme of fetishist entrapment in an attempt to make the forbidden voice heard, beyond the confines of rationality. The portrayal of the eccentric feminine takes shape in a new literary space populated with male and female protagonists. This study focuses on the most extreme female into doll transformation in two novels and various short stories by Angela Carter.

Rhetorical Choices and Effects in Jean Stafford’s “The End of a Career”

Author(s): Corina Alexandrina Lirca / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2015

The present paper focuses on “The End of a Career,” the last short-story in Jean Stafford’s 1969 collection titled Collected Short-Stories, using the rhetorical approach to narrative as an investigative method. The result is an investigation of the purpose behind the artistic communicative act that is “The End of a Career,” starting from the range of rhetorical effects that accompany the progression of this narrative. As a rule, the narrator's choices of narrative technique and manner represent the way in which (s)he seeks to influence the audience’s cognition, emotions and values and reveal the purpose of the communicative act. Therefore, I will show that this realistic inverted-chronology reconstruction of Angelica Early’s life the narrator carries out is meant to bring to the short story the dignity of tragedy and reveal the protagonist as a twentieth-century tragic heroine.

Alexandra Popoff, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

Author(s): Boris Lanin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 42/2021

The review of: Alexandra Popoff, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), 429 pp.

Discurs gastronomic à la Kiš

Author(s): Lidija Čolević / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2015

Les éléments gastronomiques d'interpolation et de la bohème dans une œuvre littéraire contribuent à la découverte de l'expérience, ce qui est important non seulement dans le contexte de la poétique de l'écrivain, mais aussi à découvrir le contexte historique. Dans cet article, nous analysons le travail de Danilo Kiš Sablier, La Mansarde, Encyclopédie des morts, Jardin,cendre du point de vue des rélations entre la gastronomie et la littérature.

Destinul personajelor în nuvela lui V. Pelevin „Želtaja strela” (Săgeata galbenă)

Author(s): Florentina Marin / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2013

Interested in a number of philosophical problems, Viktor Pelevin meditates in one of his short stories entitled The Yellow Arrow the idea of human existence and the meaning of life. The present study aims at analyzing the writer’s approach of this theme. At the same time, the article discusses the notion of time in Postmodernism as opposed to the Modernist view, deconstruction of fundamental truths and the ontological crisis specific for the contemporary world.

Проблема времени и пространства в художественном тексте

Author(s): Simion Iurac / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2012

În articol sunt prezentate unele considerente de ordin general cu privire la problemele timpului şi spaţiului artistic, reflectate în proză. Se face referire la manifestarea celor două probleme esentiale în literatura rusă de la începutul secolului al XX-lea, mai exact, în proza ornamentală rusă. Analiza concretă se realizează pe baza textului nuvelei lui B. Pilniak Krasnoe derevo, care a aparut în anul 1929 la Berlin. Într-o traducere liberă tilul nuvelei ar corespunde în limba română sintagmei lemnul roşu (de mahon sau de acaju), utilizat pentru confecţionarea unor obiecte de mobilier de lux. Krasnoe derevo sau lemnul roşu în nuvela lui Pilniak reprezintă tradiţia, trecutul, simbolul Rusiei ţariste, imperiale, care, ca multe alte simboluri ale trecutului, trebuie să dispară în noua epocă de după anul 1917.

„Кирджали” А.С. Пушкина: Эт(н)ос свободы

Author(s): Lyudmila Malinova-Dimitrova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2011

Short A.S. Pushkin's story Kirdzhali (1834) is not so popular, but one of the most intriguing his prose works in 1830s. With the image of the protagonist, Georgy Kirdzhali, who is historical person, great Russian poet is the father of Bulgarian theme in Russian literature in general. But literary value of the work is on poetical and hermeneutic perspective, as far as Pushkin is interested in the philosophy of love-of-freedom as the instinct of self-preservation and role model.

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.

АЛБАНСКИ ПИСАЦ СРПСКОГ ПОРЕКЛА МИЛОШ НИКОЛИЋ МИЂЕНИ И ЊЕГОВA КРАТКА ПРОЗА

Author(s): Golub M. Jašović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 5/2019

This paper deals with the work of the one of the most important writers of the first part of the twentieth century, about Miloš Nikolić, who has usually been signing his works using pseudonym Miđeni. Miloš Nikolić was born in Serbian Orthodox family during the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the village Vraka near Skadar, in 1911. He was educated in Serbian language from Primary School and High School to the School of Theology. At the early age he lost both of his parents and guardians and because of that he received scholarship from the Yugoslav government. He wrote his first works in Serbian and Russian language in school. Later in life, he published all of his works of poetry and fiction in Albanian language. His works have been published twice in Serbo-Croatian language, both in Priština and Belgrade. This year, for the first time, we are publishing the book of short stories, translated from Albanian language to Serbian language, to commemorate eighty years since Miloš Nikolić passed away.

ОБЕЛЕЖАВАЊЕ ПРОШЛИХ ПОНАВЉАНИХ РАДЊИ У ПРИПОВЕТКАМА ЋАМИЛА СИЈАРИЋА

Author(s): Bojana M. Veljović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2017

In the Serbian language, the events detected in the past which are characterized by the repetition of performance can be expressed by perfekat, narativni prezent, potencijal (the potential form), and the imperative, whereas their syntacticsemantic traits and the scope of usage overlap to a lesser or greater degree. Nonetheless, each and every syntactic unit also possesses differential features which allow its functioning in the system of partly synonymous forms. In Serbian, perfekat is used in the factually intonated narration, where the stress is primarily on the informative side of the utterance, which can also be detected in the expression of habitual actions. Potencijal and the imperative mark the repetitive past actions, playing a secondary role, which indicates that we are speaking about marked forms, the carriers of „stilski potencijalˮ (which appear in an emotional intonated utterance). The short stories by Ćamil Sijarić belong to the literature written in a dialect. As a result, our task is to determine the way in which the system of forms used to express habituality functions in the domain of the literary-artistic style of Serbian as well as how the peculiarities of the idiom representing the basis of the language of the author, that is, of his characters, are reflected in narration. Bearing in mind that we have a speech from a peripheral zone of the Zeta-Sjenica dialect, characterised by an abundant system of verbs, the matter excerpted allows viewing the units in a complex system of relations.

Književno-jezički aspekti interkulturnosti Nušićeve zbirke priča Ramazanske večeri

Author(s): Adnan Bjelak,Ersan Muhović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 89-90/2022

Cilj rada jeste prikazivanje književne i jezičke interkulturnosti Nušićeve zbirke priča naslovljene kao Ramazanske večeri. U radu se prikazuju oni elemeni, na književnom i jezičkom planu, koji govore o interkulturnim dimenzijama priča, te koje promovišu međusobno upoznavanje i dijalog različtih konfesija koje egzistiraju na jednom zajedničkom prostoru, napominjući da se stvarna interakcija kultura i religija ne zasniva na pukom suživotu, životu jednih pored drugih, već na životu jednih sa drugima.