Проблематика на идентичността на православните жители на Лодз и Краков. Типологичен анализ

Author(s): Jan Morawicki / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The paper focuses on the issue of forming and maintaining religious and ethnic identities within a European context defined by migration processes. The author considers certain relations and contradictions connected with the functioning of the two kinds of identity while also underscoring differences in the interpretation of terms such as “parish”, “congregation” and “religious group”. The sociological research presented in the paper has been carried out among Eastern Orthodox communities in Lodz and Cracow.

Научнофантастични сюжети и обекти в поезията на Вислава Шимборска

Author(s): Margreta Grigorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

There are science fiction plots and motifs in the work of Wislawa Szymborska. They can be found in poems such as “Kałuże” (Puddles), “Kilkunastoletnia” (Teenage Girl) and “Ludzie na moście” (The People on the Bridge). Their integration into Szymborska’s poems may be linked to her experimental imagination, non-acceptance of the conventional vision of the world and ability to see the humorous side of the universe and joke about it. In her poetry we can find visions of alternative and possible worlds and attempts to penetrateinto “antiworlds” and “antimatter.” The plots and motifs, which were borrowed from science fiction, partially retain their original structural functions within their new poetic context. At the same time, however, they have undergone significant changes, thus also altering their receiving context.

Book Review: Inna droga. Romantycy a kolej by Wojciech Tomasik

Author(s): Tomasz Pudłocki / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Вислава Шимборска и ut pictura poesis

Author(s): Weronika Szwedek / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

Wisława Szymborska is considered an artist in whose poetry the ekphrasis plays a key role. Szymborska wrote numerous works that fall into this context as a genre linking literature and the fine arts, and representing a literary description of a painting. Among Shimborska’s favorite artists are Vermeer, Rubens, Bruegel and Hiroshige Utagawa.

Viktorija Šeina, Savas svetimas dainius. Adamas Mickiewiczius lietuvių literatūros kanone (1883–1940)

Author(s): Darius Staliūnas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 24/2022

Review of: Viktorija Šeina, Savas svetimas dainius. Adamas Mickiewiczius lietuvių literatūros kanone (1883–1940), Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2021, 303 p. ISBN 978-609-425-310-2

Wokół elitaryzmu. Trzy przypadki

Author(s): Alina Świeściak / Language(s): English Issue: 28-29/2022

This article examines literary criticism in Poland after 1989 from the dynamic perspective of elites and elitism. Drawing on various elite theories, mainly the more contemporary ones, for which the most important point of reference is Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of distinction, the author shows how these concepts function in relation to the aesthetic and social dominants of the Polish literary scene after 1989. The author analyzes three “critical case studies:” Krzysztof Uniłowski’s article from 2005, a Facebook event related to the “auctioning” of Konrad Góra’s book of poetry in 2020, and recent trends in the language used by the young generation of critics. The author is interested in the relationship between literature and criti-cism and the dominant aesthetic tendencies and the socio-political context, especially the use of the concepts of elites and elitism, be it analytically or persuasively, consciously or unconsciously, positively or negatively, etc.social class exclusivity elitism economy of symbolic exchange

Fałszerze pieprzu Moniki Sznajderman w roli lektury uzupełniającej, czyli jeszcze jedna odsłona prawdy o XX wieku

Author(s): Agnieszka Kania / Language(s): Polish Issue: 13/2021

Knowledge about Polish-Jewish relations, especially during World War II and the Holocaust, is still insufficient in Polish society and is burdened with many stereotypes. Polish language education in its compulsory dimension does not allow to take up this difficult topic, so in secondary school it is worth to discuss Monika Sznajderman’s Fałszerze pieprzu. Historia rodzinna as supplementary book about memory and identity. Its overview should be carefully prepared and the students should be prepared for reception. The method suggested in the proposed didactic activities is primarily critical thinking. Thus interpreted, the literary work gives young people a chance to distance themselves from national myths about Polish-Jewish relations and to prepare them for conscious participation in social and cultural life.

Schreiben aus der Migrationserfahrung‘ – Zu narrativen Strategien und Identitätsmusternin den Texten polnisch(sprachig)er(E)Migrationsliteratur in Deutschland

Author(s): Eliza Szymańska / Language(s): German Issue: 32/2022

In the following article, several texts of Polish (e)migration literature in Germany are analysed in relation to the narrative strategies used by the authors and the patterns of identity presented in them. Narration is not perceived only as a lin- guistically-limited genre, but as a mode of organising individual and collective memory and determining one’s own identity. With the help of selected catego- ries (exoticisation, intercultural (double) mediation, alterisation, transcultural universalisation, transculturalisation), a wide range (of which particularism and universalism mark two ends) of possible ways of dealing with one’s own migrant status is presented. It is their autobiographical narration of identity that all the texts selected for the analysis have in common. The aim of this article is to show the different forms it can take.

Współczesna powieść historyczna — stąd do starożytności

Author(s): Mikołaj Woźniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 13/2022

Mikołaj Jerzy Woźniak’s aim in this article is to characterize the contemporary historical novel. Woźniak examines critically Paweł Ćwikła’s assumptions regarding the essential features of fictional historical literature. As a case study, Woźniak analyzes the work of Ewa Kassala, an internationally acclaimed author of Polish descent. Using Nathalie Heinich’s narrative method in his research, Woźniak identifies the main themes in Kassala’s work, which allows him to confirm the outset assumptions. Kassala puts emphasis on timeless fictional events, while paying ample attention to historical realism. An additional element, following the example of Henryk Sienkiewicz, is the idea that historical fiction should “fortify the hearts of the readers” and raise their morale.

Specyfika relacji reporterskiej po 24 lutego 2022 roku na przykładzie „Tygodnika Powszechnego”

Author(s): Igor Borkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

Igor Borkowski analyses techniques and tools used in reporting on the military conflict following Russia’s attack on Ukraine (February 24, 2022), on the example of reportage materials published in the Polish weekly “Tygodnik Powszechny” (or “The Common Weekly”). The analysis shows thematic threads, geopolitical focus on selected areas of Ukraine, and the accurate selection of biographical examples, easy to decipher and identify for the readers of this socio-political magazine.

Écrire et cartographier le nomadisme au XIXe siècle. L’exemple des Kalmouks

Author(s): Virginie Tellier / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

This article proposes to reflect on the writing of nomadism by comparing three accounts of journeys made between 1797 and 1859 in Kalmyk territory: Voyage à Astrakan et au Caucase (Jan Potocki, 1797), Les Steppes de la mer Caspienne, le Caucase, la Crimée et la Russie méridionale (Xavier and Adèle Hommaire de Hell, 1843-1845), Voyage au littoral de la mer Caspienne and The Volga (Moynet, 1860, 1867). The article first evocates the question of the place from which the visual, auditory and intellectual experience of the traveller is established; it then questions the distance, physical and symbolic, which separates the travellers from those they meet on the way; it finally attempts to relate the movement of the nomad, on the one hand, to the movement of the traveller, on the other.

Ile jurysty w Piotrze Czyżewskim? Uwagi o prawie rzymskim w Alfurkanie tatarskim, siedemnastowiecznym paszkwilu na litewskich Tatarów

Author(s): Kacper Żochowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2022

Alfurkan tatarski prawdziwy na czterdzieści części rozdzielony (A Genuine Tatar Al Furqan Divided into Forty Parts) is a pasquinade on the Lithuanian Tatars written and published in the seventeenth century. Although it was published in Vilnius under the name of Piotr Czyżewski, there is a continued discussion as to who described the Tatars’ history, customs and position by placing them in a broad context, including a historical and legal one. The arguments presented in the Alfurkan he illustrated with examples from the works of ancient and medieval authors, including references to Roman law. The article attempts to answer to what extent those references were done accurately and with understanding. Thus, the article’s author first identifies the ancient legal content present in the Alfurkan; then, he considers the question of what the errors, manipulations and the specific choice of sources say about the Alfurkan’s author.

Ekowidmontologia jako strategia lektury. Studium przypadku „Kości, które nosisz w kieszeni” Łukasza Barysa

Author(s): Mateusz Adam Michalski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2022

The article is an attempt to reflect on the relationship between the subject and the environment in a state of crisis on example of the novel by Łukasz Barys entitled The Bones You Carry in Your Pocket. The author proposes a psychoanalytic reading strategy, the main theme of which are ‘spectres’ (Derrida) associated with the traumogenic relationship between the ‘I’ and nature. Be text analyses climate catastrophe in the context of hyperobject theory (Morton) and their entanglement in local structure.

Pamięć o Zagładzie w powieści Ewy Lipskiej Sefer

Author(s): Grażyna Barbara Szewczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 13/2022

The subject of theoretical considerations and textual analysis is the memory and layers of time in Ewa Lipska’s novel Sefer (2009). The author of the article reflects on the weaves of memory in the life of the protagonist, who is “Viennese and the citizen of the world”, and answers the question of what the traumatic memory was which burdened his psyche and the independent development of his personality. The theme of memory connects the plot threads, the past and the experience of the present. Memory is also a glue that merges two different, and at the same time close to each other, cultures, Polish and Austrian, signaling their intertwining in the world of “global values”.

TRUE TO LIFE? SOME REMARKS ON A DUTCH TRANSLATION OF JERZY KOSINSKI’S THE PAINTED BIRD

Author(s): Antony Hoyte-West / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2023

Almost six decades after it was first published, the novel The Painted Bird, by the Polish-American author Jerzy Kosinski, continues to attract interest and controversy. The book was widely translated and an analytical comparison of its translation into over a dozen languages was recently published. Noting the absence of Dutch from this analysis, the present contribution aims to provide an overview of De geverfde vogel, the Dutch translation of The Painted Bird. In the first instance, information regarding the circumstances and development of Kosinski’s original novel are outlined. This is subsequently complemented by an overview of the Dutch language as well as the context behind the translation of the book, before relevant aspects relating to the original and the Dutch translation are compared and contrasted.

The Representation of the Tatars in the Polish and Romanian Historical Novel: A Case Study on Mihail Sadoveanu and Henryk Sienkiewicz

Author(s): Andreea Mîrț / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The article proposes an analysis of the representations of the Tatars in two historical novels published in Poland and Romania, respectively, from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. First of all, the article discusses the history of Sienkiewicz’s reception in the Romanian literary field and interrogates the possible interferences between two (semi)peripheral literatures (Romanian and Polish) as symptoms of the polysystem (Even-Zohar) of the Central and Eastern European literary field. Secondly, the case study on Sienkiewicz’s With Fire and Sword and Mihail Sadoveanu’s Neamul Șoimăreștilor [The Șoimărești Clan] discusses the imaginary constructions articulated in the description of the Tatars ethnic minority. Using the “frontier Orientalism” concept (Andre Gingrich), the article shows how the representation of the Tatars has different roles, being a pretext for defining national identity and becoming a pretext for “the creation of transnational communities” (Terian). Therefore, the paper aims to identify the ideological stakes behind the representation of the Tatars, as well as to discuss the intersections between Sienkiewicz and Sadoveanu and their effect on the historical novel’s evolution.

Полската Касандра. Профетизъм и катастрофизъм в междувоенната полска литература

Author(s): Margreta Grigorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 30/2023

The current text follows prophetic motifs in catastrophic works of the interwar period of Polish literature, conceptually linking them to the motif of the unheard Cassandra.The works are presented in the context of the multifaceted crisis that gripped Europe between the wars, as well as in the context of the catastrophic current in Polish literature between the wars. In the center of attention are poems by Czeslaw Milosz, Józef Czechowicz, Anatol Stern (“Europa”), Antoni Słonimski (the novel “The Two Ends of the World”), the essays of Jerzy Stempowski, Marian Zdzieechowski.

(Пред)чувстващата полска периферия – между катастрофизма на група „Волин“ и търсенията на постмодернистите

Author(s): Venesa Nacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 30/2023

This article analyzes the Polish periphery as a center of strongly manifested catastrophic premonitions about the approaching Second World War in the interwar period. The text also examines the opposition center-periphery from the position of postmodernism and comes to the conclusion that the created peripheries are gaining more and more importance, even beginning to redefine the Center.

Сеизмографичният автор и литературните катаклизми. Антон Страшимиров по стъпките на Станислав Пшибишевски

Author(s): Piotr Misztela / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 29/2022

This article analyzes the traces of Stanisław Przybyszewski’s oeuvre in three Anton Strashimirov’s urban novels: The Meeting, The Suspension Bridge and Bena. Strashimirov, known for his restless and impressionable artistic nature, decided to equip Sofia intellectuals with the typical obsessions of Przybyszewski’s protagonists, including the fatal power of lust or the desire for unavailable androgynous synthesis. Both plot and language of the three novels reveal inspirations by the Polish author’s “naked soul” conception.

SAMOTNOŚĆ PO BOGU METAFI ZYKA W PÓŹNYCH WIERSZACH TADEUSZA RÓŻEWICZA PERSPEKTYWA INTERPRETACYJNA

Author(s): Zofia Zarębianka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2022

The article presents an attempt at a synthetic interpretation of the evolution, inherent in Tadeusz’s Różewicz’s poems, of the poet’s attitude to metaphysical and religious questions. His early works are expressive of his agnosticism motivated by the trauma of the Second World War, or even the the denial of God’s existence on the grounds of the impossibility to explain why good God allows evil, while the poems written in 1990s reveal a change in Różewicz’s attitude and his tentative recognition of a horizon of metaphysical meanings. The author of the article addresses also the connection between metaphysical issues and Różewicz’s views on the literary creation process and on the indispensability of metaphysical values for the existence of culture.