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"Wolność albo śmierć". Prolegomena do badań nad twórczością czeczeńskiego barda Timura Mucurajewa

Author(s): Kamila Paczek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 157/2017

The article is a preliminary study of contemporary Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev and texts of his songs. The underground bard and active participant of the First Chechen War has become a legend and symbol of the Chechen struggle for independence and freedom. Despite strong anti-Russian and Islamic message Mutsu¬raev’s songs are popular not only among independence-oriented Chechens but also among Russian youth. Most of Mutsuraev’s works are patriotic war-songs glorifying national effort to defend Chechnya against Russian aggressors. The artist celebrates Chechen national symbols, myths and ethos. Mutsurayev’s songs are particular in¬teresting subject of study in context of postcolonial theory.

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"Водевиль в сумасшедшемдоме": "Линия Брунгильды" М. А. Алданова

Author(s): Dmitri Nikolayev / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/2015

If one were to single out the most characteristic feature of the Russian theatre in exile, it would be the severe scarcity of everything: theatre troupes were small, productions were executed on a very meager budget, etc. Dmitri Nikolayev’s article discusses the way that Mark Aldanov adapted his style to meet this challenge, which resulted in the creation of “Liniia Brungildy” (1937), a play in thegenre of vaudeville.

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"Между страницей и стеной" : русская цифровая литература в постцифровую эпоху

Author(s): Jana Kostincová / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2/2016

The article attempts to give characteristics of Russian digital literature within the international context. Using A. Ilianen's text Pensia which exists in both electronic and print form - as a series of texts published in the course of several years in the social network VKontakte as well as a print book—the author attempts to explore new possibilities of the interaction between traditional print literature and electronic/digital literature.

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"Я вернулся в мой город…": Неизвестныйвариант стихотворения О. Э. Мандельштама

Author(s): Marina Salman,Anna Dolinina / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/2015

This is the first publication of a previously unknown version of Osip Mandel’shtam’s poem “Ia vernulsia v moi gorod, znakomyi do slez...” (1930, 1932), which survived in the archive of the famous Russian scholar Arkady Dolinin (1883–1968) (currently located in the Manuscript Division of the National Library of Russia). It has come to us in the spisok (copy) made by an unknown person, who almost certainly met Mandel’shtam in the period between late December 1930 and early January 1931. Although the name of the copyist cannot be established, the text as such is remarkable in the way it differs from the final version.

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(Nie) Chcieć być wszystkim. Stawrogin i najgłębsza otchłań Dostojewskiego

Author(s): Michal Kruszelnicki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 24/2015

This paper proposes a new interpretation of Nikolai Vsevolodowich Stavrogin – a relentlessly intriguing character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Devils. This reading opposes the very influential line of interpretation employed in works of thinkers working within the current of Russian symbolism and “cultural renaissance” from the beginning of the 20th century. The author argues that this “religious” interpretive tradition contributes to one of the greatest misunderstand- ings concerning Dostoyevsky’s work in that it oversimplifies its ambivalence and obscures one of Dostoyevsky’s darkest insights into the human soul, initially revealed in Notes From the Under- ground and from that time on recurring in each of his major novels. In the first part of the article, several classic Russian interpretations of Stavrogin are examined in order to show their common tendency to morally judge Stavrogin from the Orthodox point of view, recognize his greatest sin in the lack of faith in God and for that reason see before him only the perspective of self- disintegration and inevitable death. The author argues that “religious” interpretations do not explain the mystery of Stavrogin. What is more, they homogenize the complexity of his character and offer an all-to-easy solution to the vital philosophical problem which reiterates in Dostoyevsky’s entire mature fiction and which finds its greatest artistic representation in Stavrogin himself.

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A MAN IS FREE AS HE IS THE IMAGE OF GODLY FREEDOM. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY’S FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT FREEDOM

Author(s): Iwona Magdalena Perkowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 21/2013

The article presents Fyodor Dostoevsky’s considerations of freedom based on both The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot. The writer shows, that dealing with own freedom is one of the greatest tasks in human life and man's future fate depends wholly on how he copes with this task. Freedom is a fundamental concept in a philosophical anthropology of the Russian novelist. According to his grasp of the problem of evil this is a man, who appears the source of all misery, which he brings upon himself, among which not atheism but false understanding of God is the greatest one.

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A. Platonov’un “Çukur” Eserinde Umudun Kayiplari

Author(s): Reyhan Çelik / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 76/2013

With the revolution of October 1917 a new political process has begun in Russia. This process has not only changed the daily life of the Russian people, but also has exterminated the humanistic emotions of them. This subject has been the main question of the works of A.Platonov, who observed the sechanges on the people since the begining of the revolution. Although aforementioned difficulties expressed by some writers of that period, due to the tough stance in the works Platonov is considered to be against the regime. However, despite all the pressures he continues to express thoughts clearly. He is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century Russian literature with language, philosophy, as well as the revolution approaches; in his time he reflects the suffering of the people and challenges in society. He attracts attention both the stylistic features of literary art and thoughts of anti-regime. Some of the author’s works have been translated into Turkish. These works are “Dzhan”, “The Foundation Pit”, “Chevengur”. “The foundation Pit” which he has written up in 1930, however, published in 1987 in Russia. In his work “The foundation Pit”, he has drawn the profile of ‘new human’ which has occuerd to get her with the the socialist system. In this work are transferred painful losses, which given to achieve overall collectivization. Voşçev removed from his job because of the thoughtfulness, for the search to truth, will join the ranks of people working for the sake of this hope and in work is expressed what happened in this process. At the same time in work, against the Soviet regime’s utopian thought has created an anti-utopia. In this work the life philosophy of the villagers that live in the Soviet system and their journey to hope has been examined relative to the life philosophy of the period.

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Aneksja kolektywu czy dyktat wybiórcy? Z zagadnień antologii tłumaczeń (na przykładzie nowych wyborów poezji rosyjskiej)

Author(s): Ewa Goczal / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 157/2017

The article attempts to present the comparison of two translator’s achievements: Zbigniew Dmitroca’s Radio Swoboda and Jerzy Czech’s Wdrapałem się na piedestał. The anthologist’s work is considered here as both the act of translation and revelation — joining the translation of literary texts and their compilation in anthologies with scrutinizing the particular writers and literary phenomena as well as the process of translation itself, and introducing a new, transforming quality to the native poetry. A translator-anthologist can be perceived in that perspective as a link between two literary cultures, and also as an initiator of changes and an independent creator who develops, in his own language and on his own conditions, a certain new Polish canon of Russian poetry

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Az orosz irodalom mítosza

Author(s): Ákos Szilágyi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 01/2013

The author argues that the central attraction of Russian literature over the West has been its spiritual aspects and religious pathos reminiscent of the European Middle Ages, which enchanted the spiritually more sensitive writers of the modern Western world, operating under pure economic rationality and within the confines of a “disenchanted” worldview. This attitude could be subsumed under the category of “orientalism” as a kind of nostalgia for a seemingly lost religious state of the world, or even as a search for a “lost paradise”. However, the civilizational collapse has undermined the myth of Russian literature already at the beginning of the last century, and it placed the writer within the complex relationships of the “mundane” bourgeois era. At the end of this historical process, the myth of Russian literature has lost its validity, and now it only preserves the memory of a bygone state of the world.

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Boris Poplavsky and Eugeniy Malaniuk: Typology of Expatriation as an Aspect of Cultural Allotropy

Author(s): Olha Chervinska,Yulia Vilchanska / Language(s): English / Issue: 94/2016

Exile existential accents are not considered to be a completely focused object. There are factors in history of cultures which are easier for understanding, proceeding from the current reality: the presence of certain culture in other cultural structure when the creative person faces an indispensability of self-identification (as motivated in the philosophical platform of Julia Kristeva, i. e. in the essay “Strangers to Ourselves” (1988). In the culture study aspect anyone of conventionally homogeneous cultures (or using the expression by Sorokin – “socio-cultural bodies”) in the context of its development inevitably faces, or will face in future, with a situation where the homogeneity ceases to be obvious.In particular, the experience of integral culture collapse of the Russian Empire, at first glance, gives very significant examples related to the so-called allotropy factor (the literary lexicon virtually lacks the concept, although it is appropriate to use this ancient scientific term containing commonly known Greek roots αλλος – other, τρόπος – feature). We mean the various forms which presented the existence of representatives of individual national cultures of Russia after the October Revolution generating the emergence of various known today diasporas – such as the Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian and others. In this synchronic time span the formation of the various “post-imperial” Diasporas (the first wave of emigration) is of great interest. Their main point becomes a creation of the corresponding ideological clamp. In this respect it is interesting to trace typological samples on the most revealing examples.The given article examines the work of two poets-emigrés: Boris Poplavsky (Russian diaspora) and Eugeniy Malaniuk (Ukrainian diaspora). It is a question of typologically polar transformations of biographical experience in the Diaspora ideology outlook.

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Buddyzm w literaturze na przykładzie opowiadania Iwan Kublachanow Wiktora Pielewina

Author(s): Aleksandra Imosa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2015

The subject of this article brings together literary theory and cultural studies as it concerns the introduction of Buddhist elements into literature. Victor Pelevin's Ivan Kublakhanov is studied as an example of this literary phenomenon. The axis of this short story is assumed to be the doctrine of dependent arising. The Four Noble Truths, the concept of Anatman and The Tibetan Book of the Dead are also taken into consideration. Each element is explained briefly and supported by a presentation of appropriate passages from the story.

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Carinik i Anuška

Author(s): Dževad Karahasan / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 34-35/2004

"Majstor i Margarita" Mihaila Bulgakova sasvim razgovijetno se doziva s dva velika klasična djela evropske tradicije i tim dozivanjem brani klasični koncept književnosti to jest dokazuje kako je i u našem stoljeću, izrazito anti-klasičnom u svakome zamislivom smislu, klasična književnost moguća. (Klasičnim ovdje nazivam djelo koje, ne gubeći ništa od svoje jedinstvenosti, okuplja u sebi mnoga djela, utemeljujući to okupljanje na korespondenciji a ne na citiranju.) Ta dva djela s kojima "Majstor i Margarita" korespondira sasvim očigledno su Danteova "Božanska komedija" i Goetheov "Faust".

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Cerkiewnosłowiański przekład Ewangelii Mateusza w okresie po święcie Pięćdziesiątnicy w serbskich apostołach-ewangeliarzach krótkich Sv-17 i KM-512

Author(s): Jerzy Ostapczuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 57 (2)/2012

The article is devoted to two abbreviated Serbian Apostol-Gospel lectionaries from the collections of the Russian State Library in Moscow, P. I. Sevastianov collection (f. 270), no. 17 (Sv-17) and the Bulgarian National Library (Sts. Cyril and Methodius) in Sofia, no. 512 (KM-512). The collation of liturgical readings of the Gospel of Matthew (from the Pentecostal period of Synaxarion), based on 71 manuscripts, has shown that these two manuscripts have unusual readings (in terms of translation, additions, omissions, harmonization, etc.) that are characteristic only for these two lectionaries. The existence of the unusual readings of the Gospel of Matthew in these two lectionaries allows us to classify them as textologically homogeneous Church Slavonic manuscripts of the abbreviated lectionary.

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CIERPIENIE, ROZDARCIE, NIESPEŁNIENIE: DESTRUKCYJNY EROS W DZIELE F. DOSTOJEWSKIEGO

Author(s): Michal Kruszelnicki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 28/2015

My paper discusses the idea of destructive eroticism in the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Eros is posited here as manifesting in two, opposite forms: the Christian virtue of agape consisting in a humble service to a beloved person, and the Greek eros which in Dostoevsky is transformed into destructive love, one steeped in egoism and sadistic-masochistic impulses. I want to argue that destructive eroticism is for Dostoevsky of greatest interest, while love conceived as agape serves in his work only as a minor, normative projection, a tribute paid to the Russian Orthodox worldview. In my analysis I refer to Georges Bataille’s philosophical thought to combine the pattern of unfulfilled and ruinous love in Dostoevsky with his conviction that irrational aspects of man, his penchant to evil and transgression can be seen as a measure of the intensity and authenticity of one’s spiritual life. Contrary to religious interpretations of Dostoevsky, I argue that the author of Crime and Punishment prefers to cast his protagonists into the limbo of suffering, anguish and distress and therefore he ultimately rejects the possibility that human beings can content themselves with a mediocre life in which existential complacency is bought at a price of resignation from dangerous passions of which one could say that were “worth a life”.

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Czytając Rosję. Współczesna proza rosyjska w Polsce. Wybrane zagadnienia

Author(s): Aleksandra Zywert / Language(s): Polish / Issue: XVII/2015

The aim of this paper is to diagnose the presence of contemporary Russian prose in Poland.The starting point for the discussion is related to articles depicting present tendencies and thedirections the latest Russian literature heads for. On the basis of an overview of Polish translationsof texts authored by Russian writers it may be concluded that Polish readers have an opportunity tofollow the most contemporary trends in the development of Russian literature.

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Cовременная русская социальная фантастика (2017 Ольги Славниковой)

Author(s): Andrzej Polak / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 7/2014

In the first part of the article the author presents phenomena characteristic of current Russian social fiction, focusing on genres such as alternative history, futuro-historical fiction and alternative futurology. In the Russian literature of the last two decades, futurological forecasts draw attention. As part of social-political projects, they offer an alternative to the real history of Russia in the 20th century. The second part of the paper discusses the novel 2017 by Olga Slavnikova, considered one of the most interesting examples of alternative futurology.

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Cтарорусские соседи Ф. М. Достоевского

Author(s): Yulia Yukhnovich / Language(s): English,Russian / Issue: 2/2017

While spending summer time in 1872—1880 in Staraya Russa F. M. Dostoevsky used to meet and to be on friendly terms with various people. Among his acquaintances in Staraya Russa there were priest Ioann Rumyantsev, lieutenant-colonel A. K. Gribbe and his niece A. G. Eliseeva, general E. I. Leontiev, actress of a resort theatre A. P. Orlova, bourgeois A. I. Menshova (the archetype of Grushenka in the novel “The Brothers Karamazov”), journalist P. A. Gaideburov from Saint Petersburg, a married couple Jaclar. Moreover, his circle of acquaintances included the people hardly mentioned in the letters to his wife and those he could know by hearsay only. So, his relations with those people need further investigation. The present article shows the variety of Dostoevsky’s entourage. The contact with his neighbors could largely have an impact on the writer’s creative work.

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Dramat Smierdiakowa

Author(s): Michal Kruszelnicki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 153/2016

This paper offers an interpretation of the figure of Pawel Fyodorovitch Smerdyakov — the fourth of the Karamazov brothers, parricide featured in the last great novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The analysis of existing criticism on Smerdyakov, which is my point of departure, invites an assertion that this figure tends to be regarded in almost exclusively negative terms. Looking for answers to the question whence comes this unequivocal evaluation of Smerdyakov, I focus on plot resolutions, the way narration is led, and on the poetics of Smerdyakov’s depictions in the The Brothers Karamazov. I establish that their aim is to fashion from the outset a much revolting image of this particular protagonist. This perspective allows me to state a thesis that is contrary to that of Michail Bakhtin who claimed that the polyphony of Dostoevsky’s oeuvre renders each protagonist’s worldview fully individual and equally valuable and that access to their personalities is granted to us only in so far as they speak of themselves. In a critical discussion with Bakhtin I argue that Smerdyakov functions as an example of an anti-dialogical, that is obscuring the protagonist’s individuality, specifically authorial take aiming to arrest his personality within a predetermined, monological interpretive regime. I then offer a meditation on the ethical message of The Brothers Karamazov which rests on the notion of “the responsibility of everyone for everyone” and I reflect on the reasons why this formula does not apply to the figure of Smerdyakov who, surprisingly, is not treated as a “brother” by anyone in the novel, let alone a human being.

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Dva lica raja – pornografija u teoriji, pornografija kod Nabokova

Author(s): Zsuzsa Hetényi / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1-2/2015

Pornography is still hard to define in terms of aesthetics or philosophy. Unlike traditional discussions of Nabokov’s oeuvre which focus on the author’s intention, on the interpreter (subject), or on the message (object), the paper focuses on the interstitial space among these three categories. This space of artistic transmissions is created with codes and can be read with or without them. The first code is that of the “learned” reception, in which distance towards the work is the result of conscious engagement. The other code concerns the consumer who understands art as a copy of life, which, in turn, enables manipulation. Hence, when defining pornography what needs to be taken into consideration is not the artistic vs. the vulgar, or the division between high and low art (subculture), but rather the negligence of the two codes. With this in mind, the paper discusses the ways in which Nabokov helps the reader discover this double-entendre in his text, and how he introduces other motifs to destroy and eliminate pornographic stereotypes that, as a consequence, become vehicles of irony and parody in the text. The three distancing mechanisms are identified as aesthetisation, mythologisation and a double-bind concept of the erotic, which are counterbalanced by the imagery of the motifs of death. This “ero-smert” in Nabokov (a coinage of Eros and Russian smert meaning death) is accompanied by “corpsification”, i.e. when the body is visualized as a corpse. This ambivalence is a version of the complex image of the writer, a special aspect of his notion of the “otherworld”.

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Dziennik z Grasse Galiny Kuzniecowej — autoportret pisarki

Author(s): Jolanta Brzykcy / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 153/2016

Grasse Diary (Грасский дневник, 1967), the most famous work by Galina Kuznetsova, for years has been treated mostly as the book about Ivan Bunin. It contains her account of fifteen years spent with Bunin in Grasse and Paris, wherefore it has been attracted particular interest of Bunin’s researchers. Bunin is the central figure of Grasse Diary, yet Kuznetsova, according to Lejeune’s „autobiographical pact”, remains the author, the narrator of her story and character who is being talked about. Discrete entries include her experiences, thoughts, feelings, comment on current events. Kuznetsova creates the self-portrait, presents a deeply subjective vision of the world. Some equal strategies can be found in her narration: an observer strategy, participant strategy and introspection strategy. The aim of this paper is to analyse them and to interpretate Kuznetsova’s image given in her daily entries.

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