"Śmierć tylko żywych kaleczy smugami dymu…" – cierpienie i śmierć w twórczości Ludmiły Marjańskiej i Heinricha Heinego

Author(s): Agnieszka Reszka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2015

The aim of the present analysis is showing Ludmiła Marjańska’s and Heinrich Heine’s attitude to the idea of suffering, disease and death. The physical and mental pain described in works of both poets were shown from the artists’ personal perspective. The vision of internal experience and also the way how they have evolved depicts this article in comparison with the main ideas of philosophical systems (for example existentialism, ontological personalism).Heinrich Heine is recognized as one of the most active and influential German poets and also writers and journalists. His writings faced important political and social problems and also difficult problems of human being existence and the sense of suffering. The subject of Ludmiła Marjańska’s works were also the experience from the second world war and human emotions connected with illness, pain and a fear of loneliness. Both poets had similar attitude to the human values and their works used the same motives and symbols connected with suffering and death. The analysis is written on the basis of Marjańska’s and Heine’s different selected works which included poems, essays and novels.

"Stick with me and I’ll take you there": The Speaker and History in the Poetry of James Fenton

Author(s): David Malcolm / Language(s): English / Issue: V/2003

"Uprawiam archeologię pamięci" - rozważania o utworze Singer. Pejzaże pamięci Agaty Tuszyńskiej

Author(s): Justyna Zaborowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

The article presents the role of memory, which is a base of book Singer. Landscapes of memory. They have been cited in the thesis theorists who deal with the issue scientifically memory, among other things, Pierre Nora. Biography Nobel prize winner based on the traces of the past - both material and the subjective memories. Agata Tuszyńska also analyzed literary creation Singer. It was noted how much writing Tuszyńska is associated with her own identity.

"Valami csillagszerű gravitáció"

100 éve született Weöres Sándor

Author(s): Andrea Heinrich / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 07/2013

"VIAȚA LUI TUDOR ARGHEZI", DE MIREL ANGHEL

Author(s): Marinela Doina Nistea / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2013

"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.

"Wtedy zaczął się mój upadek...". Egzystencjalne dylematy bohaterów Józefa Conrada i Alberta Camusa

Author(s): Irena Jokiel / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2014

The article uses the notion of 'border' in the interpretation of psychological and ethical themes in "Lord Jim" by J. Conrad and "The Fall" by A. Camus. The heroes of these novels realise that they had made bad use of their freedom , and the moment in which this happened had marked their lives irrevocably, and divided it into zones of rise and fall. After this moment nothing would be as it used to. Throughout the centuries literature has developed language to express the fundamental experience of this kind; it tells the stories of people experiencing the traumatic force of a demarcation moment, which after passing, leaves no posibility of returning to the life before; it creates alternative worlds inhabited by people who seek the truth about their "I", it constructs situations that embodies our anxiety resulting from the fact that man is not "redy and finished", and in the flowing "here and now" he does deeds which shape his destiny. "The Fall" indirectly includes the question of attitude of modern world towards Condrad's ethos.

"Źle jest, poezjo moja, że jeszcze nie jesteś prosta jak kij". Elementy samokrytyki w twórczości Romana Bratnego, przedstawiciela pokolenia "pryszczatych"

Author(s): Agnieszka Piekarska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

The article presents self-criticism in the works of one of the main representatives of the "the spotty". The author proves that not only older writers strive to settle the past but also young socialist realist poets try to apologise for their weaknesses. The aim of the article is to show the mechanism of self-criticism in the poetry by Roman Bratny - focusing on what made him create pieces of writing of this type and on which "mistakes" he admitted having made. To reach this aim, the author analyses poems by Bratny which were published in the times of social realism. She shows how the poet tries to adapt to the enslaved society, in which self-criticism is a consistent element of literary life.

"Заточеници" и "Септември" - културни контексти и модели на четене

Author(s): Metodiy Kirilov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

This paper studies two modernistic poems – „Zatochenici” (P. Yavorov) and „Septemvri” (Geo Milev). Some relations between the two poems are shown: their connections with certain historical event, the crash of the national ideal for unity, the journey – by boat in „Zatochenici” and from night to dawn in „Septemvri”, the concept of the mother land, the lost paradise and the paradise on Earth.The conclusion shows how in a work known as a patriotic poem we find symbols of modernism and in a modernistic poem we find symbols of Bulgarian cultural history.

"К тебе, имеющему быть рожденным..." Básnická korešpondencia Mariny Cvetajevovej v naratívnych súradniciach

Author(s): Marián Pcola / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2014

The article focuses on stylistic and compositional peculiarities of an author’s personal correspondence. However, it tends to view it not merely as a “historical document” revealing biographical facts, but rather as a specific genre of its own, blurring the boundaries between literary and non-literary writings, fiction and non-fiction. First some general aspects of poetic correspondence are presented, aiming to picture a certain theoretical model. That is followed by a more detailed case study: a reflection over Marina Tsvetaeva’s intimate letters to her close friends and fellow poets, seeing them in overall context as an exceptional form of a poetic narration of her life story.

"Критическата лавина" или как да четем критиката за романа "Лавина" на Блага Димитрова

Author(s): Ilvie Konedareva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

The paper deals with reviews of novel “Lavina” by Blaga Dimitrova. It focuses on the different critical strategies concerning interpretations of the book that outline the view of the whole criticism tradition in that period.

"Надежда на васъ однихъ!.." (Переписка Ф. М. Достоевского с В. Ф Пуцыковичем: полный комментированный корпус писем)

Author(s): Anna Solopova ,Valentina Zinkova / Language(s): English,Russian / Issue: 4/2016

There are plenty of research works on personal and business relations between F. M. Dostoevsky and V. F. Putsykovich. The basis for such researches is the variety of letters and documents. Dostoevsky’s letters to Putsykovich were published once and again. However, up to now, some of them, mostly those from Berlin archive, are not studied enough. As for the letters of Putsykovich, they have never been released entirely. The present article makes an attempt to represent for the first time the correspondence of Dostoevsky and Putsykovich in a right chronological order, maintaining peculiarities of spelling and punctuation of the originals and correcting the mistakes of previous publishers.

"Немско-българския речник" на Гео Милев

Author(s): Diana Stancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2015

This article is a first attempt at a more detailed presentation of Geo Milev’s German-Bulgarian Dictionary manuscript completed in 1916, as well as of its printed edition from 1940, revised by Dimitar Stoevski and published by Ivan Koyumdzhiev. A comparison between the manuscript and the print edition shows significant differences in the way in which the lexicographical informationis organized, in the macro- and microstructure of the dictionary, in the translation of German words as well as in the listed collocations and phraseological units. This paper is a modest contribution to the historical study of German –Bulgarian bilingual lexicography.

"Свешената книга" в романовата структура на "Хайка за вълци" от Ивайло Петров - релации и трансформации

Author(s): Zapryan Kozludzhov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Ivailo Petrov's novel 'Wolf Hunt' is a dramatic saga with a story covering a long and contradictory period of Bulgarian history, from the first years after World War II to 1965. The fates of Ivan Shibilev, Mona Zhendo, Kalcho, Nikolin, Stoyan Kralev and their sons and daoughters intertwine and grow apart in passions and conflicts. This book is the story of people who are born during a totalitarian regime or die, frequently because of what they love. The hunt is the symbol of their thirst for revenge, the Old Testament 'an eye for an eye', with the outcome/redemption being presented as a pain of the soul caused by the loss of human happiness. The study discusses the presence of biblical motifs and images and the manner in which the author of the novel works with them. The moral categories through which each individual considers his/her life are skilfully woven in the book by the careful use of biblical symbols and messages. The characters in 'Wolf Hunt' fully experience the passions and sufferings of the Old Testament characters, thereby redeeming the original human sin.

"ТАМ, КЪДЕТО ПТИЦИТЕ СА ПО-ЛЕКИ." ПРЕЖИВЕЛИЦИ И ВПЕЧАТЛЕНИЯ НА БЪЛГАРСКИ ПИСАТЕЛИ В ИТАЛИЯ

Author(s): Boyka Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

This text aims to present some experiences and impressions of Bulgarian writers in Italy. Traditionally, Italy is perceived by Bulgarians as a cultural etalon and a cradle of the European Renaissance. There are a few accents in the focus of the research: the act of travelling and the emotions coming out of that; the reaction of the Eastern man when he contacts the Western culture; perception of the cultural monuments; self-reflection and thoughts of the travelers; images of the other; comparison between the premised (expected) image of Italy and the seen/experienced.

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

Author(s): Sergej 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”.

"Царството на славяните" от Мавро Орбини, руският превод на Сава Владиславич и изследванията по въпроса

Author(s): Roberto Adinolfi / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2015

The paper discusses some major publications dealing with Mavro Orbini’s Il Regno degli Slavi and its translation in Russian by Sava Vladislavich, which in turn is one of the sources of Paisiy’s Istoria slavyanobalgarska. Works by numerous Slavicists and philologists provide comprehensive explorations on this subject. This paper mainly focuses on studies by Bulgarian and Italian scholars.

"Чужая речь мне будетоболочкой…". Рец. на кн.: "Корни, побеги плоды…Мандельштамовские дни в Варшаве"

Author(s): Sergey Shindin / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/2015

In his contribution to the second volume of Slavica Revalensia, Sergei Shindin reviews the proceedings of the Warsaw Mandelshtam conference (September 18–22, 2011) published in 2013 by the Russian State University for the Humanities.

"Я очень любил получать письма Марины..." Марина Цветаева. Письма Валентину Булгакову. 1925-1927.

Author(s): Lev Mnuhin / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/1996

Review of: "Я очень любил получать письма Марины..." Marina Tsvetaeva. Letters to Valentin Bulgakov. 1925-1927. Prague, Museum of the Czech Literature, 1992.70 p. (Galina Vaněčková Publishing, Editor Marta Dandova). by: Lev Mnuhin

"Я пришла работать, а не для знакомства": Федор Достоевский и Анна Сниткина

Author(s): Irina S. Andrianova / Language(s): English,Russian / Issue: 3/2016

150 years ago, on October 4th (October 17th), 1866, a stenographer Anna Snitkina came to work to the writer Dostoevsky. So, she made a life-changing acquaintance of him, which culminated in a happy marriage and a successful creative collaboration. The subject the acquaintance of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anna Snitkina is popular in Art and literature: it is embodied in the biographical researches, fiction, drama, cinema. At the heart of this publication there are the results of studying the creative process of writing memories by Anna Dostoevskaya about her acquaintance of the writer and their collaboration on the novel “The Gambler”. The author of the article has made a textual study of the extant editions and drafts of biographical memories of that period of Dostoevsky and his bride, made a comparison with the verbatim records of the diary of 1867. As a result, there were brought to light and considered auto censorial corrections and fragments that were not included in the last edition of memoirs at the discretion of the memoirist. These episodes of a draft manuscript are similar to verbatim records of the diary that are of greater factual certainty than memoirs. They reliably convey the circumstances and atmosphere of the first meeting of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anna Snitkina, their work, communication problems, particular traits of characters, habits and tastes.