"LE DÉCAMÉRON". CENT NOUVELLES – UN CHIFFRE RITUEL

Author(s): Ioana Nicoleta Silvia / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2020

The Decameron represents the maximum of realism in literary art through which Bocaccio laid the foundations of a literary prose and a language used in the following centuries by successive writers. The subjects can be considered of French inspiration, but the action is located in Florence, the cradle of the Italian language but also literature. It is well received in France and its translation inspired Marguerite de Navarre in the later creation of the masterpiece Heptaméron. It is impressive the perfection of Decameron's architecture - 10 young people, 10days, 10 short stories, 10 themes, but also the force with which the author creates situations that react to the darkness of the Middle Ages, freeing the consciousness from the prejudices, counteracting hypocrisy, the false authors of miracles and laying the foundations of a new epoch: The Renaissance.

"Only in Dying Life": Ursula K. Le Guin's Dry Land and Its Cultural Contestations

Author(s): Gabriela Debita / Language(s): English / Issue: 10/2020

In his seminal essay theorizing the concept of heterotopia, “Of Other Spaces”, Michel Foucault insists that his focus is on external spaces. However, given the ability of certain spaces, especially those associated with trauma and torment, to simultaneously be inhabited and inhabit the psyches of their denizens, it stands to reason that some heterotopic spaces are internal as well. One such example is Ursula K. Le Guin’s Dry Land, an inner hellscape which appears throughout her Earthsea series. The Dry Land serves to mirror, invert, and contest not only the world of Earthsea, but also the pervasiveness of Western literary and cultural influences on the genre of fantasy itself. Inspired by classical and Renaissance sources (Homer and Dante) and modernist ones (Rainer Maria Rilke and T. S. Eliot), the Dry Land, a jarring spatial and literary aberration in the context of Earthsea’s Taoist framework, serves to confront both the resistance to the finality of death and the supremacy of the Western literary canon. In doing so, it demonstrates Le Guin’s desire to distance herself from Western canonical influences, while nevertheless highlighting the fact that, given the cyclicity of literary rebellion, she is, in fact, walking in Dante’s and T. S. Eliot’s shoes.

"ХРИСТИАНСКИЙ СОЦИАЛИЗМ" ИЛИ "СОЦИАЛЬНОЕ ХРИСТИАНСТВО"? (ГОГОЛЬ И ДОСТОЕВСКИЙ В ИСТОРИИ РУССКОЙ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ФИЛОСОФСКОЙ МЫСЛИ)

Author(s): Sergey A. Kibalnik / Language(s): English,Russian / Issue: 3/2017

The article refers to the phenomenon of Western European, primarily French, and Russian socio-philosophical thought that got a traditional name of “Social Christianity” but in the Soviet times was entitled “Christian Socialism”. Dostoevsky’s “Russian socialism”, as the author himself denominates it in “A Writer’s Diary”, is for a long time and justly related to French “Social Christianity” and to its most famous representative F. R. de Lamennais (Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais). At the same time “Russian Socialism” and all the entirety of Dostoevsky’s socio-philosophical views of 1860s — 1880s extremely remind Gogol’s ideas of his later period. Certain parallels between the two Russian classics are revealed in the article, and it is pointed out that while Dostoevsky’s views are usually treated with sympathy the same ideas in Gogol’s later works are often sharply criticized. The similarity between two writers, apart from certain influence of Gogol on Dostoevsky, is due to their orientation to the same currents in Western European socio-philosophical thought, and first of all to the “Social Christianity”. Both writers shared the key principle of this movement: aspiration to the transformation of social relations on true Christian basis, according to the Christian ideal of brotherhood between people regardless their class position. It was Gogol, along with Chaadaev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, who more than any other Russian writer or thinker was inspired by Lamennais’s “Paroles d’un Croyant” (1834) and other writings of the latter. Taking this into account a well-known correspondence between Belinsky and Gogol could be qualified as a dispute between an adherent of socio-political utopia and a disciple of “Social Christianity”.

(Az utcaseprők…); (Késik); (Dögszag)

Author(s): Vivien Jánosi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 05/2016

(szino)líra. aranyos, arányos, aranypármen

Author(s): Géza Aczél / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 02/2019

... és ne feledd a hattyúkat

Author(s): Peter Juščák / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 98/2015

...ALI ZNAM DA ĆU IZAĆI NA KRAJ S TOBOM

Author(s): Mihajlo Pantić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 457/2009

U Ukrajini sam se prvi put obreo slučajno. Jedne kasne jeseni ribario sam sa prijateljem na Delti Dunava, i tu, na velikoj vodi, u nedoglednoj zemlji, razumeo da osećaj prostora u svakom čoveku zavisi od njegovog neposrednog, svakodnevnog okruženja. Jedan je onaj koji sedi sam u maloj sobi na desetom spratu nekog novobeogradskog solitera, anoniman i bezglasan, zatrovan bezizglednošću i TV slikama, ubijen u pojam od toliko nakazne istorije koja mu pritiska život od rođenja do smrti (gle, ni okrenuo se nije, a već je star), drugi onaj koji se dokopao neke pustinje

...NE DOPUSTI!

Author(s): Miklos Varhegyi / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 423/2003

Znam, čitaoca sablažnjava ako naiđe na tekst bez kritičnosti. Njegovi roditelji i profesori i nadređeni i političari podsticali su ga na kritički ton. Buda je rekao: ljubav je okov.

10 ani de la plecarea în Poezie a lui Petre Stoica/ Literatura română, formă fără fonduri

Author(s): Marcel Tolcea,Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 03/2019

2013 – L’Année Maupassant en Roumanie

Author(s): Alexandra Viorica Dulău / Language(s): French / Issue: 1/2018

In June 2013, Babeş-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, organized the international colloquium Maupassant 2013, meant to celebrate the 120 years passed since Maupassant’s death, within an essay to have a whole Romanian Year dedicated to him; lack of funds reduced it to some parts of the country, especially Transylvania. This article presents what was done in this respect, the most important result being a collection of varied essays belonging to different authors – the great majority working in important European universities – who wrote them on the basis of the topics suggested in the call for papers: the biography, between truth and legend; the short stories, between humour and fantastic; the creator of images: illustrations and movie adaptations; the translation of the work. Such a diversity of topics allowed a wide range of approaches which resulted in extremely interesting contributions, demonstrating Maupassant’s actuality even in the second decade of the 21st century.

27, avagy a halál teszi a művészt

Author(s): Alexandra Salmela / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 99/2015

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Author(s): Péter Farkas / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 97/2015

A bús hírállomás vallomásai

Author(s): Péter Demény / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 04/2017

A Domestic Charade

Author(s): Zośka Papużanka / Language(s): English / Issue: 04 (09)/2013

In late 2012, Zośka Papużanka made her literary debut in Poland with her book Szopka (A Domestic Charade). Her debut was well-received; Papużanka has been nominated for many awards, including Poland’s most prestigious literary prize “Nike”.

A föld madarai

Author(s): Zalán Serestély / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 03/2018

A földön fekve

Author(s): Noémi Kiss / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 05/2013

Kelj fel! Ébresztõ! Ki az? Hahó, Lívia, én vagyok! Hoztam brióst. Jaj, azta, de jó! Azt hittem, megint a nõvérke tapiz. Itt vettem a pékségben, még meleg. Istenem, de szeretem, hiszen tudod. Akkor kapd már be!

A futónő emlékműve

Author(s): Ulrike Draesner / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 97/2015

A herceg három halála

Author(s): Hans Bergel / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 836/2022

The thoughts presented here are from a conversation made in the fall of 2019, with which we say goodbye to the writer, publicist Hans Bergel, who died on February 26 this year at the age of ninety-seven.

A huszadik kis alabárdos a színpadon (regényrészlet)

Author(s): János Kőbányai / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 05/2018

A Japanese-American Sam Spade: The Metaphysical Detective in Death in Little Tokyo, by Dale Furutani

Author(s): Carla Portilho / Language(s): English / Issue: 28/2017

The aim of this essay is to discuss the legacy of the roman noir in contemporary detective fiction produced outside the hegemonic center of power, here represented by the novel Death in Little Tokyo (1996), written by Japanese-American author Dale Furutani. Starting from the concept of the metaphysical detective (Haycraft 76; Holquist 153-156), characterized by deep questioning about narrative, interpretation, subjectivity, the nature of reality and the limits of knowledge, this article proposes a discussion about how these literary works, which at first sight represent a traditionally Anglo-American genre, constitute narratives that aim to rescue the memory, history and culture of marginalized communities. Typical of late modernity detective fiction, the metaphysical detective has none of the positivistic detective’s certainties, as he does not share in his Cartesian notion of totality, being presented instead as a successor of the hardboiled detective of the roman noir. In this article I intend to analyze the paths chosen by the author and discuss how his re-reading of the roman noir dialogues with the texts of hegemonic noire detective fiction, inscribing them in literary tradition and subverting them at the same time.