THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DISCOURSE IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY MARKO CEPENKOV

Author(s): Jovanka Denkova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

This paper explores the question of autobiographical discourse in the work "Аutobiography" by Marko Cepenkov. Firstly, we will determine the basic theoretical settings according to which a text can be said to be autobiographical or it contains autobiographical elements. Then, we will specifically indicate the presence of the explicit and implicit techniques or elements in certain works that are used by the author in addition to which his work can be called an "autobiographical text". Even though his theoretical model will be used, in the same time the inconsistencies in this model will be indicated as well as its modification in the literary works of autobiographical discourse. In that context, the "Autobiography" by Marko Cepenkov will be reviewed, in which, joining the private and the socially-public, depicted through the whole relevant Balkan situation in that time, he created a specific autobiographical – biographical discourse of memoirs. In that manner, the uncertain theoretical status of autobiography will be confirmed, the previous definition of autobiography as "dogmatic" will be unmasked and a notion that autobiography cannot be seen isolated from the other genres will be created, i.e. the existence of hybrid genres will be confirmed.

ДВОДОМНИТЕ ПИСАТЕЛИ КАКО ОСНОВА ЗА ИНТЕРКУЛТУРЕН ДИЈАЛОГ

Author(s): Jasmina Mojsieva-Gusheva / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 68/2016

The paper is dedicated to Macedonian expatriate writers who lived and worked primarily in neighbouring Balkan countries (Bulgaria and Serbia) during the first half of the twentieth century. It examines the issue of the writers' identity, their tendentious representations, the struggle between domestic and foreign stances, the respective authors' affiliation and/or exclusion in certain cultural environments, the (im)possibility of an intercultural dialogue with said neighbouring countries, and the mutual relations between the Macedonian and other cultural backgrounds.Identity is viewed as a construct built upon significant criteria related to the writers’ national self-determination, birthplace, language, religious affiliation, social stratum, topics covered by their work, and other cultural factors (traditions, individual worldview, sense of collective belonging). The paper aims to open existing taboos in identity claims, contributing to the perception of said expatriate not to be marked by national and stereotypical identification. Instead of lengthy and difficult discussions about their affiliation/ non-affiliation to certain nations, it is better to examine them within the context of global cultural memory asintercultural authors who bridge Balkan nations, cultures and traditions. Through this brief overview, the paper acknowledges the possibilities for development of intercultural processes and interpretations within the Balkans and Europe, past and present.

РОМАНСИЕРСКИОТ ОПУС НА ЈОВАН ПАВЛОВСКИ (по повод 80 години од раѓањето и 60 години творештво)

Author(s): Loreta Georgievska-Jakovleva / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 69/2017

Searching for the specifics of Pavlovski’s novels, this paper posits that they be considered from another angle. In the argument provided, the novels are defined as a specific kind of “real prose” with concessions. Examining the relationship between literature and reality, and the dominance of Pavlovski’s novels, while defining mimeticism as a basic poetic principle, the novels are perceived as socially responsible prose, critical of certain aspects of the presented social and political reality. The language in the novels is informal, similar to the demands of “real prose”. But they also imply a process of upgrading by introducing procedures specific to the postmodern, such as mystifications, pseudocumentarity, fragmentation, simulation of reality, uncommon to the story and narration. Unlike “real prose”, Pavlovski’s novels have a conflict between the predetermined and the uncertain, which makes the complexity of the novelistic structure, and the novel world rather polyvalent. This refutes the thesis that a “strong” reality suppresses an inherent literary preoccupation with the invention of worlds through specific, literary language and a complex structure.

РОМАН ПЕТРЕ М. АНДРЕЕВСКОГО «ПЫРЕЙ» И ДУХОВНЫЕ ТРАДИЦИИ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ

Author(s): Tatyana D. Popkova,Boris V. Kondakov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2017

The article considers structure and images in the novel of the Macedonian writer P. Andreevsky. Also its place in Macedonian culture and its connection with spiritual traditions of Slavic literature are explored in the article.

The Imperative of Truth in Kosta Racin's "White Dawns"

Author(s): Trajce Stameski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This text analyzes the significance of the poetry collection White Dawns of Kosta Solev Racin from the aspect of the concept of truth, as it is defined by the famous Russian philosopher Pavel Florenski. The text also covers issues of social justice, social inequality, and the effects of Racin's socially engaged songs.

ЈА ЈЕСАМ ЖЕНА КОЈА ПИШЕ

Author(s): Rumena Bužarovska ,Radmila Gikić Petrović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 520/2019

СИМБОЛИКАТА И ФУНКЦИЈАТА НА ОБРЕДНАТА ПОВОРКА МЕЧКАРИ (ПРИЛЕП), ВО МИНАТОТО И ДЕНЕС

Author(s): Katerina Petrovska-Kuzmanova / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 76/2020

The research is focused on the rituals with masks, which are a still living tradition in Macedonia. The paper deals with a comparative analysis of the traditional and contemporary aspects of the existing form of the Mechkari rituals procession with masks. The way these rituals are performed in contemporary conditions gives them new meanings and functions, so nowadays the role of entertainment dominates over the one of a magic ritual; and next to, or instead of, the traditional characters, appear ones representing a commentary of the year past. Today the participants in these events are often not aware of the former ritual function of their actions. This is why the need for their further research and nurturing as an intangible cultural heritage of Macedonia appears.

РОДОВИОТ ИДЕНТИТЕТ ВО НАРАТИВОТ НА ИСАКУ

Author(s): Marina Danilovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 13-14/2020

Во трудот ќе се осврнеме на претставувањето на родовиот идентитет во прозното творештво на Мурат Исаку. Ќе посочиме дека културата е таа која ги наметнува разликите во однос на родот, ја создава дистинкцијата на машко/женско на која човекот се придржува. Така жената добива за неа специфични задолженија на кои молчаливо им се потчинува. Перцепцијата и вреднувањето на жената се движи во овие граници на дејствување. Во романите на Исаку ги издвојуваме традиционалните обрасци на родовата идентификација, каде ликовите, и машки и женски, функционираат во рамките н воспоставените вреднувања на родовата идентификација. Нив ги сретнуваме во улога на мајка, татко, деца, улога на семејни луѓе, кои ги почитуваат општествените правила, но се среќаваме и со ликови кои и покрај сè ги кршат истите тие правила.

ТЕНДЕНЦИИТЕ НА МАКЕДОНСКАТА ИНТЕРНЕТ ЛИТЕРАТУРА

Author(s): Slavica Petrovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 13-14/2020

The social media changed our lives, but also altered people's understanding of what can be considered today as a good artistically and aesthetically piece of literature. Today, is getting more popular internet literature, and such tendency is also popular in Macedonian literature. On one hand this modern literature provides easier affirmation, but on the other hand allows flow of trash literature.The social media provides a new way of literary expression that fully meets the needs of the modern world. But how good is artistic freedom for literary development? Is this literature trying to keep the essential aesthetic and literary norms or is it trying to open up new artistic perspectives adaptable to the contemporary world? More and more authors are trying to convey their literature to the digital world because today it’s the only way they can reach the general public. This paper will attempt to analyze the trend of world internet literature as well as in N. Macedonia, with views on the need for literature to follow the trend of the digital world while keeping in mind the preservation of aesthetic and artistic value.

УДВОЈУВАЊЕ НА ПРЕДЛОЗИТЕ ВО МАКЕДОНСКИОТ ЈАЗИК ОД АСПЕКТ НА АРЕАЛНАТА ЛИНГВИСТИКА

Author(s): Marjan Markovik’ / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 10/2012

In Macedonian language, doubling of prepositions is well documented in grammars and monographs, but now we can witness increased use of prepositional sequences in the modern Macedonian standard and dialects. The need for more precise spatial determination became necessary, and this is precisely where the role of the (secondary) complex prepositions are in use: nasred, nakaj, dokaj, otkaj,, etc. However, Macedonian language has the so-called double prepositions (prepositional sequences), whose main function is more precise spatial determination (od pred, od zad, od pod, do pred, za pred, za vo, za na, etc.) The high frequency of prepositional sequences is common not only in modern Macedonian but also exists in Western peripheral dialects which had closer contacts in with Balkan linguistic environment. It can be concluded that the Balkanised structure of Macedonian language allows certain Balkan tendencies to expand and evolve in some new directions and still retain the primary goal - more transparent and clearer communication among the speakers of the language.

НАЦИОНАЛНИТЕ ОПСЕСИИ И ТВОРЕЧКИТЕ СПЕЦИФИЧНОСТИ ВО МАКЕДОНСКАТА ЗАДГРАНИЧНА ЛИТЕРАТУРА ОД ВТОРАТА ПОЛОВИНА НА XX И ПОЧЕТОКОТ НА XXI ВЕК

Author(s): Naume Radičeski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 10/2012

The divisions and severing of Macedonian territories, as well as the forced and existential migrations of a huge part of the Macedonian population led to the creation of literature outside their home country in proportions not typical for other peoples. Macedonian literature created outside the countryís borders, despite its quantity and the wide geographic distribution, still seems to not recognize the concepts of exile and globalism. The creators of Macedonian literature creating outside their home country above all cherish the ethnic values and remain in an intimate relationship with their fatherland. Irrespective of the fact whether they write in Macedonian, which is more common in those creating in the more distant countries; or in the language in which they received their education, for those creating in the neighbouring countries; they form a close bond with their fatherland and remain in touch with the literature created in the Republic in Macedonia in the second half of the XX and the beginning of the XXI century.

ЗАПИСИ ЗА „МАКЕДОНСКАТА КНИГА“ ОД КОЛЕ ЧАШУЛЕ

Author(s): Valentina Mironska Hristovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 77/2021

Kole Čašule was a playwright, short story writer, essayist and a novelist. He has published twenty-four plays, twelve novels, four collections of short stories, six books of essays, a monograph and several hundred feuilletons, commentaries, travelogues, theater and film reviews, controversies, interviews. He is one of the founding fathers of contemporary Macedonian literature. The reason for this text is the celebration of 100 years’ anniversary of his birth. From the extensive work of Čašule, in this text we have focused on the book Notes on the Nation and Literature (1985). There, on 550 pages, he presented his views on: the Macedonian language; Macedonian literature; Macedonian history; Balkan cooperation; foreign interests; foreign policy; the role of the writer; the Macedonian question, etc., in the period between 1967/68 and1983/4. His writing on these issues fully corresponds to the events and policies that are happening related to the Macedonian issue today.

KНИЖЕВНИОТ АРХИВ НА КОЛЕ ЧАШУЛЕ (ПО ПОВОД 100 ГОДИНИ ОД РАЃАЊЕТО НА КОЛЕ ЧАШУЛЕ)

Author(s): Nataša Avramovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 77/2021

Kole Čašule, a playwright, novelist, and essayist who has written twenty-four plays, twelve novels, four collections of short stories and six books of essays, is one of the founding fathers of contemporary Macedonian literature. He has significantly influenced its decades-long modern development. His works have been translated, his plays staged in scores of languages. He has received numerous awards, in Macedonia and abroad. In 2003, he was elected honorary member of MANU (The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts). As the number of Kole Čašule’s plays grew, they became milestones in the development of the modern Macedonian drama. His play, An Empty Gourd in the Wind/Вејка на ветерот (first staged in 1957), represents the beginning of modern Macedonian dramaturgy, while plays, As You Like It / Како што милувате (1974) by Čašule and Jane Zadrogaz Јане Задрогаз (1974) by Goran Stefanovski launched the postmodern age of the Macedonian vernacular drama. And then there is, of course, Kole Čašule’s play Darkness/ Црнила (1960/61), its title and content deeply rooted in the collective memory of the Macedonian people; a few decades ago it became a symbol of the survival of the community throughout history. Kole Čašule in his large and diverse body of work characteristically frames the represented world oscillating between reality and fiction. This represented world, in fact, is best defined by the author himself in the words of the title of his late novel: So It Is (If That’s How It Seems To You)/ Така е (ако ви че чини). In another case, he simply uses the title As You Like It/ Како што милувате, referring to the famous play of the Elizabethan era. What seems like a leisurely and ad hoc allusions to a variety of possible readings and interpretations of the world reflected in his plays, serves in fact as a trap to draw readers into an abyss of contradictions (there are as many versions of the truth as there are witnesses!) and insinuations (behind-the-scenes dealings and reworking of situations/reality). The total narrative world of Čašule’s work displays in fact a strongly dramatic quality: the dramatic tension of the opposing voices lead the story to its culmination. This quality makes the world reflected in Čašule’s work relate to the worlds of the great playwrights of the modern drama, who focus on conflict between reality and fiction: like Luigi Pirandello with his ‘naked masks’ or Yukio Mishima and his schizophrenically split reality in the modern Noh-Plays. At the centre of Kole Čašule’s dramatic world appear the ideological and political aspects of this inability to distinguish between reality and fiction. His main characters, split between the planes of reality and fiction (a simulation of reality), provide the basis for the dramatic conflict. In fact, it seems that in his works reality disappears entirely, fictionalized through a series of fabricated scenarios. It does not matter whether he reworks the immigrant theme (An Empty Gourd/ Вејка на ветерот, Home-bounders/Роднокрајци) or a an aspect of the totalitarian regime (Whirlwind/ Вител, A Musical Score for a Miron/Партитура за еден Мирон, A Divertissement for a Strez/ Дивертисман за еден Срез), or a play or novel that refers to Macedonian national history (Darkness/Црнила, Judgment/Суд, Standing Upright/Простум, So It is (If That’s How It Seems To You)/Така е (ако ви се чини); the basis for the dramatic plot is always focused on the confrontation and blurring of the planes of reality and its simulations, fabricated and constructed forgeries. In his plays, Čašule reveals hidden, controlled from behind-the-scenes hints of life’s dramatic events. Thus, the work of Čašule reveals the drama of existence as the tragedy of human beings entirely uncertain within a reality which cannot distinguish itself from its numerous simulacra – manipulated by totalitarianism (A Musical Score for a Miron/Партитура за еден Мирон, A Divertissement for a Strez/ Дивертисман за еден Срез), political terrorism (Darkness/ Црнила) or the official scene of social interaction (An Empty Gourd…/ Вејка...). Čašule’s work depicts on one hand how reality is being fictionalized, on the other, the effect of this fictionalization: an impossibility to reach reality through glimpses of its simulacra. In his artistic world, he views reality as being fictionalized to the same degree as narratives in literature, historiography, or law. These auto-referential and complex aspects of Čašule’s work alluding to the circumstances of a given social and cultural communication, call for new readings and interpretations now when he is gone and we celebrate the anniversary of his birth.

ПРИКАЗНУВАЧОТ КОЛЕ ЧАШУЛЕ – Создавањето на приказните и ликовите во делата на Чашуле –

Author(s): Ana Stojanoska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 77/2021

Starting from the position that Čašule is an author whose opus has been researched from many different perspectives (literary, theatrical, dramatological, historical, linguistic, etc.), I decided to explore the way he creates the characters and the stories / plots / fables in his works, both dramatic and prose texts. The subject of analysis are several of his novels and plays from different periods of his work as an author. The researched material is analyzed from the position of theatrical, dramatological and narratological close reading, in a hybrid combination of author - creator and author - scientist. Contemporary theoretical literature has been used as it pertains to several dominant methods of interpretation, the neo-historical method in particular. The term “storyteller” is my coinage with which I want to draw attention to the expressive and intense need of Kole Čašule to create stories and characters in his own authentic way, creating them through the process of storytelling, rather than in advance.

МАКЕДОНСКИ АВТОРИ И АВТОРКИ НА ЛИТЕРАТУРНИТЕ ФЕСТИВАЛИ ВО СЛОВЕНИЈА ОД 2000 ДО 2020 ГОДИНА

Author(s): Namita Subiotto / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 77/2021

In the research of intercultural mediation in literature, we generally analyse translation production and reception, while relatively less attention is paid to in-person promotion of literary works, namely, the public appearances of literary authors. On this occasion time we shall focus on the latter: we will explore which Macedonian authors have presented their works at the prominent literary festivals in Slovenia and at the Department of Slavistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana from 2000 to 2020.

ТИПОЛОГИЈА НА СЛИКАТА ЗА ЖЕНАТА ВО МАКЕДОНИЈА СОЗДАДЕНА ВО МАКЕДОНСКИОТ И ВО АЛБАНСКИОТ НАРАТИВ

Author(s): Marina Danilovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 77/2021

In the prose discourse of the following authors: Petre M. Andreevski, Jovan Pavlovski, Venko Andonovski, Luan Starova, Murat Isaku and Kim Mehmeti, the most common female character is patriarchal. Furthermore, the treatment of this character speaks of the construction and deconstruction of femininity, female identity, but also of the attempts of these women to appear outside of the patriarchal frame. As a counterweight to this, in a much smaller representative sample, the free woman is presented. Through the plethora of observed female characters (58) in the analyzed prose texts representing the Macedonian and Albanian narrative, we can notice that the woman is often hidden in the shadows of the man, minimizing the space the she needs.

СТАТИЈАТА „ГЛАВНИТЕ КВАЛИТЕТИ КОИ ТРЕБА ДА ГИ ПОСЕДУВА ЕДНА ДОБРА УЧИТЕЛКА-ВОСПИТУВАЧКА“ ОД ОЛГА МАЏАРОВА

Author(s): Slavčo Koviloski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 23/2021

Among the Macedonian authors who left their mark in the periodicals at the beginning of the 20th century, a significant place belongs to Olga Madzarova (1887, Negovan, Thessaloniki area - Gorna Dzumaja after 1934). She is the author of the longest journalistic text in general, published by a Macedonian woman on the pages of the daily press in Macedonia under Ottoman rule, i.e. until 1912. Madzarova is the author of the article “The main qualities that a good teacher-pedagogue should possess”, published in two parts on the pages of The Vesti newspaper. The first part was published in issue 71 of July 30, 1904, and its sequel in issue 72 of August 3 of the same year. Under the title of the first part is the information: “Speech delivered by the student Olga Madzarova at the annual act of the Thessaloniki Women’s High School on June 37, 1904.” The two parts published in issues 71 and 72 of The Vesti newspaper refer to the importance of teachers in the education of girls, as well as to their role and presence in public life. The selected words used by the young author indicate the qualities that she possessed, and that she was able to express, in her own way, her thoughts full of hope and ideals for a better future.

СЕЌАВАЊЕТО КАКО ДИЈАЛОГ: ДНЕВНИК ПО МНОГУ ГОДИНИ ОД БЛАЖЕ КОНЕСКИ

Author(s): Jasmina Mojsieva-Gusheva / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 78/2021

Blazhe Koneski’s work Journal After Many Years by Blazhe Koneski, composed as a thread of independent notes based on intentional recollections and their interpretations by their author, is marked by a strong autobiographical dimension, and at the same time, as Koneski mentions himself, it represents his attempt to express his notions on some of the phenomenа of the individual and collective existence, and to elaborate his personal opinions about them. This text is an analysis of Koneski’s dialogical relation with his contemporaries, with the cultural discourses, with the tradition and with actual moment.

АНТЕЈСКИОТ ПОТЕНЦИЈАЛ ВО ПРОЗАТА НА КОНЕСКИ

Author(s): Lusi Karanikolova-Chochorovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 78/2021

In this article we make an attempt to interpret Antheus potential in Koneski’s prose. We focus on the short stories “Vineyards” and “The Inns” and two parts of the book “Diary after Many Years”: “Belasica” and “Garden”. The idea for this, in the year in which we mark the significant jubilee - 100 years since the birth of academician Blaze Koneski, comes from many sides: first, the basic, semantic dominance of his entire literary work, the connection of that work with his native Macedonian soil, the connection with tradition and, of course, the fact that Koneski’s prose is less studied. Because of that, this article made a modest contribution, but it seemed most appropriate in this occasion. Here we make an attempt to describe Koneski’s subtle connection with the patriotic, patriotic and motherly. In the prose texts we have chosen for reading and analysis from this aspect, the Antheus capacity is reflected in at least a dual way – as patriotic and maternal. The recognition of the Antiochian force moves either along a national, patriotic line, or for Koneski the Macedonian country is a mother. Prose entities with such potential (words, syntagms and sentences) are isolated and interpreted semantically and contextually. In fact, nothing new is said, it is already known that there is almost no poem or short story by Koneski where the birthplace is not at least associated. Hence the need for that connection to be called Antheus and without a doubt, Koneski’s prose has such potential.

СЕЌАВАЊЕТО КАКО ДИЈАЛОГ: ДНЕВНИК ПО МНОГУ ГОДИНИ ОД БЛАЖЕ КОНЕСКИ

Author(s): Goce Smilevski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 78/2021

Blazhe Koneski’s work Journal After Many Years by Blazhe Koneski, composed as a thread of independent notes based on intentional recollections and their interpretations by their author, is marked by a strong autobiographical dimension, and at the same time, as Koneski mentions himself, it represents his attempt to express his notions on some of the phenomenа of the individual and collective existence, and to elaborate his personal opinions about them. This text is an analysis of Koneski’s dialogical relation with his contemporaries, with the cultural discourses, with the tradition and with actual moment.