Three Chestnut Horses

Author(s): Margita Figuli / Language(s): English

This gem of Slovak naturalism was written in 1940. The story takes the reader to a mountain village. The protagonist narrates the vicissitudes, suffering, and success he experiences as he pursues a love affair, resulting in the triumph of pure love. Peter has been in love with a girl—Magdalena—since childhood and asks her to marry him. But he is too late, because a rich man, Jano Zapotočný, has already proposed to Magdalena, a proposal that her greedy mother promptly accepted on her behalf. Magdalena, out of respect for her mother's wishes, accepts the engagement. However, Magdalena promises Peter that she will put off marrying Jano and will marry him instead if he can prove that he truly loves her. He must build a house and earn a living. After almost two years Peter returns to show her that he kept his promise. But Magdalena is already married; Jano has raped her and she is pregnant. Desperate, Peter is tempted to take out his anger on Jano, nevertheless he resists the impulse. In the end, the author finds a way to reward Peter's faith in love and morality.

Vade-mecum. Transliteracja autografu

Author(s): Cyprian Kamil Norwid / Language(s): Polish

The publication is a transliteration of all the manuscripts of poems included in Cyprian Norwid's Vade-mecum. This is the first attempt to publish Norwid's work, taking into account all the elements of the original notation, thus showing the often unknown editions of his most valued poems. Owing to this, it can serve as an excellent material base for textual research.“From the perspective of textual scholarship, this work has the value of a comprehensive, original documentation as the first complete transliteration of the autograph of Vade-mecum, one of the most important items in Polish literature. The task has been accomplished in a very meticulous and responsible way. It is an important scientific aid in research on the writings of Norwid.” From the review by prof. dr hab. Józef Fert (KUL)

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1975 / 03

Author(s): Vladimir Voinovich,Horst Bienek,Jiří Hochman,Aleksandr V. Bachrach,Andrej (Boris Nikolajewitsch) Belyj ( Bugajev),Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva,Alexander Galich,Leopold Labedz,Anatol E. Baconsky,Vladimir Maximov,Leszek Kołakowski,Grigori S. Pomeranz,David Anin,Mihajlo Mihajlov / Language(s): German

Vladimir Voinowitsch — An incident in the Hotel Metropol // Vladimir Maximow — The Ballad of Sawwa. [Narrative]. First part // Horst Bienek — Russian underground songs // Grigorij Pomeranz — Euclidean and non-Euclidean reason in Dostoyevsky's work // Alexander Bachrach — Andrej Belyj in Berlin [With poems from the »Berlin song cycle«] // Anatol E. Baconsky — The black church. Novel // Mihajlo Mihajlov — The mystical experience of bondage // David Anin — Is Bukharin relevant? // Leopold Labedz — The Fate of Writers in the Revolutionary Movement // Leszek Kołakowski — We always have a choice. A conversation with the Polish philosopher // Jiří Hochman — Letter to Vasil Bilak // Editor's rubric — After a year

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1976 / 04

Author(s): Abdurachman G. Avtorchanov,Joseph Brodsky,Milovan Đilas,Anatolij Gladilin,Igor Golomstock,Leszek Kołakowski,Vladimir Rafailovič Maramzin,Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov,Andrej Sinjavskij / Language(s): German

Andrej Sacharow — The World in Fifty Years // Milovan Djilas — The Sister // Andrej Sinjawski — People and Animals // Wladimir Maramsin — From the short story »I, with a slap in my hand« // Jossif Brodskij — Dedicated to Yalta // Anatolij Gladilin — A tiger crosses the street // Wladimir Maximow — The ballad of Sawwa. [Narration]. Part Two // Igor Golomschtock — The Language of Fine Arts in Totalitarianism // Leszek Kołakowski — On Sakharov's last book // Abdurachman Avtorchanow — Behind the scenes of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact // Editor's heading — One more time Sakharov

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1976 / Sonderband «Prag»

Author(s): Vratislav Blažek,Vaclav Černý,Alexander Dubček,Ladislav Dvořák,Jiří Gruša,Josef Frais,Jiří Hájek,Václav Havel,Bohumil Hrabal,Ivan Kadlečík,Karel Kaplan,Mojmír Klánský,Ivan Klíma,Alexander Kliment,Zdeněk Rotrekl,Jaroslav Seifert,Karel Sidon,Karel Šiktanc,Julius Tomin,Jan Trefulka,Ludvík Vaculík / Language(s): German

Ota Filip & Pavel Tigrid — Unwilling Dissidents. First Part: Little stories from a world in which the Caretakers rule // Jan Trefulka — Report on Everyday Life // Alexander Kliment — Intellectuals // Ivan Kadlečík — Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac became the father of Jacob // Alexander Dubček — The Socialist State and Human Rights // Ivan Klíma — The misery of language // Václav Havel — The whole family sings with // Jiří Hájek — A request to the Prime Minister // Ludvík Vaculík — Good news — Bad news // Ludvík Vaculík — Sunspots // Karel Kaplan — Another letter to the lord of the castle // Ludvík Vaculík — A million dollar experiment // Karel Sidon — A sad privilege // Anonymous — The hidden death // Alexander Dubček — Farewell to Josef Smrkovský // Anonymous — An annoying confession // Jan Teren — Schwejk today // Vratislav Blažek — A crucial historical moment? // Anonymous — Pop in the Prague underground // Ivan Klíma — The end of civilization // Julius Tomin — As a philosopher at the steam boiler // Jan Milota — Three kinds of Czechs or: Letter to ourselves // Karel Šiktanc — Bohemian clock tower // Jaroslav Seifert — The Plague Column // Mojmír Klánský — The Exile // Jiří Gruša — Ladies Gambit // Ladislav Dvořák — Chronos and Kairos // Josef Frais — Finish // Jan Trefulka — The Great Construction Project // Ivan Kadlečík — An unpublished review of one unpublished novel // Bohumil Hrabal — The gentle barbarian. In memoriam Vladimir Boudnik // Václav Černý — The great Bafler. The work of Bohumil Hrabal // Bohumil Hrabal — I served the King of England // Zdeněk Rotrekl — Apocrypha // Antonín Brousek — authors of the volume

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1977 / 07

Author(s): Joseph Brodsky,Antonin Brousek,Mikhail Bulgakov,Emil Morgiewicz,Viktor Nekrasov,Vladimir Voinovich / Language(s): German

Viktor Nekrasov – Views and a Little More // Wladimir Woinowitsch – Iwankiada // Michail Bulgakow – Letter to the Soviet government. The Red Island // Antonin Brousek – Poems // Jossif Brodskij – Poems: December in Florence – Torso // Anonymous – Program of the Polish Independence Movement // Emil Morgiewicz – On the Situation in Polish Prisons

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1978 / 08

Author(s): Andrey Valentinovich Sakharov,Lord Nicholas Bethell,Anatolij Gladilin,Vladimir N Kornilov,Naum M. Koržavin,Ota Pavel,Ivan Sviták / Language(s): German

Andrej Sacharow - Letter to «Kontinent» // Naum Korschawin - Attempt at a poetic autobiography // Anatolij Gladilin - The restless dead / Vladimir Kornilow - The demobilization [excerpt] // Ota Pavel - The run through Prague // Jossif Brodskij - England [ A cycle] Letters from the Ming Dynasty continuing Plato // Ivan Sviták - Dissidence in bureaucratic dictatorships // Editorial continent - Panel discussion // Nicholas Bethell - Katyn

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1978 / 09

Author(s): Milovan Đilas,Michail Ja. Geller,Felix Kandel,Stefan Kisielewski,Lev Zinov'evič Kopelev,Vladimir Maximov,Naum Mejman,Zdeněk Mlynář,Kirill Podrabinek,Andrey Valentinovich Sakharov,Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Zinovʹev / Language(s): German

Stefan Kisielewski — On this page // Andrei Sakharov — Unrest and Hope // MilovanDjilas — The Ideology is writing the History // NaumMejman — The monument in Babijjar // Jan Patočka — The Wars of the 20th Century — the 20th Century as War / / Alexander Zinoviev — Autobiography // On both sides of the Spassky Gate. Interview with Zdeněk Mlynář. // Vladimir Maximov — An ark for those who are not invited. Chapter from a novel. // Ion Daniel — Angor Pectoris // Sophia Motowilowa — letter before death // Felix Kandel This is not a phone call ... // Alexander Galitsch — my father's house. Poem // Lew Kopelew — Alexander Galitsch in memory // Michail Heller — poet and leader // Declaration by the Society for Scientific Courses // Kirill Podrabinek — The Unlucky Raven // The Podrabinek dossier // Letters and telegrams from the KoR to Russian civil rights activists // Obituary for Jurij Dombrowskij // Obituary for Ignazio Silone

KONTINENT / КОНТИНЕНТ – Ost-West-Forum – Ausgabe 1979 / 10

Author(s): Leszek Kołakowski,Naum M. Koržavin,Golo Mann,Andrzej Braun,Anatolij Fedosseew,Jefim Etkind,Anatolij Gladilin,Paul Goma,Bernard-Henri Lévy,Georges Nivat,Pjotr Grigorenko,Alexander Galich,Julia Wosnessenskaja,Stefan (Cardinal) Wyszyński,Sergej D. Dovlatov,Herbert Tomáš Mandl / Language(s): German

Leszek Kołakowski — On the Eternal Question of Imperial and Divine Laws // Naum Korschawin — The Enthusiasm of Our Contemporaries // Golo Mann: The Opium for Intellectuals // Andrzej Braun — Speech at the Polish Writers' Congress // Anatolij Fedosseew – Socialism, a dead end // What does Solzhenitsyn mean for each of us? A panel discussion // Interview with Pjotr Grigorenko // M. Petschkin — tua res agitur // Alexander Galitsch — The Song of the Exodus Poems // Julia Voznesenskaja — Poems // Sergej Dowlatow — The Jubilee Boy // Herbert Tomáš Mandl — The Destination of the Lost // Viktor Nekipelow — Cemetery of the vanquished // On some questions from church, state and society. A letter from Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński // Zygmunt Ossowski — About the current situation in Poland // Lech Dymarski -What was in May? // Documents on the Jewish question in the USSR // Pawel Abramowitsch — On the ban on the mother tongue of my people in the USSR // Declaration by Russian civil rights activists on the nationality question // Obituary for Gelij Snegirev

PARYSKA KULTURA – 1947 / 001

Author(s): Tymon Terlecki,Zygmunt Zaremba,Andrzej Bobkowski,Wiktor Weintraub,Tadeusz Kroński,Józef Czapski,Arthur Koestler,Herminia Naglerowa,Federico Garcia Lorca / Language(s): Polish

In this issue of "Paryska Kultura," the magazine from the heart of Paris, readers are immersed in a world of Polish literature, culture and history. Through poignant essays, evocative poetry, and insightful discussions, the theme of nostalgia takes center stage as exiled Polish voices reflect on their homeland from afar, creating a rich tapestry of emotions.

La realtà dell’Italia post-unitaria nelle opere di Alfredo Oriani. L’analisi storicoletteraria del caso della ricezione di un autore preteso dal regime politico

Author(s): Katarzyna Kowalik / Language(s): Italian

The monograph “La realtà dell’Italia post-unitaria nelle opere di Alfredo Oriani. L’analisi storicoletteraria del caso della ricezione di un autore preteso dal regime politico” raises the topic of a unique phenomenon in the history of Italian literature, so far rarely described in Italian studies, which was the evolving reception of the work of the writer, journalist and historian Alfredo Oriani (Faenza, 1852 – Casola Valsenio, 1909). Nowadays, little known even among Italian readers and not often mentioned in literature textbooks, ignored by literary critics during his life, forced to publish further texts for his own financial resources and in a few reviews described as an obscene artist and scribbler, in the interwar period he was surrounded by the cult of a fascist ideology’s precursor and, thanks to the personal commitment of Benito Mussolini, raised to the rank of one of the greatest writers in the history of Italy.In the thesis were discussed two motifs. First of them is an analysis of five novels of Oriani in terms of the image of Italian reality after 1861 presented in them. The second issue considered in the work is the writer’s extraordinary literary case, whose reception, changing over the decades, was strongly related to the appropriation of his oeuvre by the fascist regime seeking intellectual grounds of its ideological-political activity. The methodological assumptions of the dissertation are based on the reflection on the author’s position in the reception of a literary work and the issue of intentionality in its interpretation.

Poezja, wyobraźnia, Śląsk. Szkice

Author(s): Katarzyna Niesporek-Klanowska / Language(s): Polish

The book illustrates the poet's meeting with the reader and the poetic worlds they have created. It includes interpretations of poems written by artists biographically linked to Upper Silesia and the Dąbrowa Basin. They are connected not only by a common experience of place, but also by common themes: longing for the "little homeland", family peace, home (Florian Śmieja, Jan Darowski, Stanisław Horak, Tadeusz Różewicz), sincere expression of thoughts, emotions, de-sires, fears, disappointments over the most difficult matters (such as: homeland, politics, truth, woman) or attempts to tame death (Edward Zyman, Marian Kisiel, Jerzy Szymik), epiphany/metaphysics of words (Jerzy L. Woźniak, Tadeusz Sławek, Andrzej Szuba).

W kręgu zagadnień języka, literatury i kultury. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesorowi Jarosławowi Wierzbińskiemu.

Author(s): / Language(s): Russian,Polish

This book is connected with scientific jubilee of Professor Jarosław Wierzbiński. It is an expression of recognition of the achievements of the jubilee, who is concerned, among other things, with text linguistic, cultural linguistic, cognitive linguistic, semantics and stylistics, the linguistic organization of the literary text, the functioning of the categories of lexical semantics, artistic style and political discourse. The book contains the articles by Russianists, Polish philologists, Slavists and Anglicists of the faculty of philology at University of Lodz and other universities in Poland and abroad. The book includes linguistic, literary and cultural articles that reach deep into history and explore the present, which have the character of theoretical and methodological considerations and material contributions.

Portobello Photographer

Author(s): Neptune E. Kosi / Language(s): English

Sometimes there are moments that are so dreamy that they take you through the streets of the city in the arms of magical imagination. Some dreams get caught on the hook of the imagination and stay there for centuries. Some wait on the gloomiest and foggy street of the city…In London, there’s a world most people could never even dream of. A city of ravens, fairies, angels, half raven half-human creatures, and the others…A Saturday morning that started on Portobello Road was also the beginning of a brand-new London for Mila. As she awakened, many unknowns were awakening above and below London. London was no longer the old London. People and Ravens too.London is always grey, but this was the most threatening grey she has ever seen!

Familia Offline. Spectacol de teatru educational

Author(s): Radu Apostol,Mihaela Michailov / Language(s): Romanian

Family Offline is the show of fractured childhood between border parents (parents who go to work abroad) and children who stay at home. Whose parents are the children and how do they mature when mom and dad become a voice on the phone? Who is mother when mother is gone?

Pe ce stam

Author(s): Mihaela Michailov,Radu Apostol / Language(s): Romanian

The play highlights the history of the Replika Educational Theater Center, a space that has gone through several conversions, starting in 1903, when it housed the first Italo-Romanian Hat Factory, and since 2015 it has become a studio theater.

Le Seuil. Actes du colloque JOURNEES de la FRANCOPHONIE

Author(s): Dumas Felicia / Language(s): French

On the threshold, time and space are suspended, opening onto the realm of possible worlds. Going beyond this frontier represents a choice whose impact is a series of irreversible acts, taking one from a universe to another, from a promise to its materialization, from dream to reality, from life to death. In no man’s land, in its ambiguous in-betweenness, nothing is decided, broken, revealed or transgressed as yet. The phantasmatic appeal of the threshold challenges our ontological landmarks. It is this abundance of structuring functions that creates a liminary zone where danger is stimulating and exchange still possible, as ascent and descent both can induce a shift in terms of the level of reality and degree of knowledge involved.

Ekofantastyka

Author(s): Grażyna Gajewska / Language(s): Polish

The future, in which future generations of both human and non-human beings will live, is being shaped today, and it is in this sense that we experience it, conceptualize it to some extent, model it, and feel it emotionally and even somatically. The author of Ecofiction talks about this way of experiencing the present and future in the context of the climate crisis, water and air pollution, disappearing biodiversity, and worsening environmental injustice. The book contains the thesis that to change this state of affairs we need not only scientific, technological, political and economic tools, but also some new sensibility and aesthetics. The "management of imagination" Gajewska proposes would mean constructing new models of cognition at both the epistemological, ontological, axiological and aesthetic levels. The book also constitutes a search for such types, genres, genre varieties in literature, film, computer games, fine arts in which various scenarios of human-not-human justice (or injustice) are most clearly revealed. It makes a case for paying special attention to speculative science fiction, in which the themes of ecology and multispecies (in)justice are addressed. Engaged in presenting alternative images of reality, this trend in speculative fiction provokes audiences to rethink the place of humans on Earth, our relationship with non-humans and political-ethical-aesthetic responsibility for the possible (or probable) shape of the future. At the same time, these speculations – as products of the times in which they were conceived – reveal the ideas that present-day writers, filmmakers, artists and audiences of their works about the likely, or expected, direction in which we will (perhaps) move to transcend, or at least weaken, anthropocentric thinking and direct attention to biodiversity and multispecies well-being.

Twenty-four Seconds of Shehin’s Life

Author(s): Chiya Parvizpur / Language(s): Arabic

Në aventurë me shpëtimtaren e botës

Author(s): Arbënora Millaku / Language(s): Albanian

The novel "On the adventure with a savior of the world" by the author Arbënora Millaku deals with the role of artificial intelligence, the book, the archive, the library and above all social humanity. The main character is Matilda, who aims to save the world. This is a girl who comes from an intellectual family and has moved all over the world. The event takes place in several countries and in particular in Luxembourg. The novel has three chapters and twelve subtitles. In the first chapter there are the following sub-topics: unusual night, coincidence, mysterious book, rare day, in the second chapter there are these topics: The train, the grandmother, the way to the archive, the archive and the fifth chapter are the following sub-themes: end of the world, nature, great palace, mission completed.