„Polski” Rilke

Author(s): Jerzy Kalazny / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 19/2012

The publication of Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany’s book Rycerz i Śmierć. O Elegiach duinejskich Rainera Marii Rilkego fills the large gap in Polish research on Rilke as it is the first monographic study of the Duino elegies. The author of the book interprets individual elegies and Atical sensibility. Simultaneously, the author supports her analysis with the theoretical foundations created by acclaimed and reputed German researchers of Rilke’s literary output such as Käte Hamburger, Beda Allemann, Manfred Engel and Jacob Steiner, among others. In her considerations, the author also refers to Polish translation of the elegies, notably those made by Mieczysław Jastrun and Adam Pomorski, also providing their critical interpretation.

„Potworna zdrada”. O źródłach kontrowersyjności adaptacji Doliny Issy

Author(s): Przemyslaw Kaniecki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 20/2012

The author attempts to identify the origins of the famous argument between Miłosz and Konwicki about the film adaptation of Dolina Issy. Konwicki created a film which, although it is an adaptation of the novel, clearly belongs to his own creative output, focused on axiological uncertainty after The Second World War. Konwicki’s work is a record of a quest for enduring points of reference, a quest conducted with realisation that such points cannot be found by a person who feels lost in the modern world. Such a world-view was not acceptable for Miłosz, and it is difficult to expect that the poet would accept an adaptation of his novel created from such a point of view.

„Prosta mowa” w tekstach o charakterze religijnym XVIII wieku (na podstawie wydań trebników w drukarniach bazyliańskich)

Author(s): Joanna Getka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: XVIII/2016

This article analyzes fragments of texts written in the prosta mova found in trebnyksprinted by the Basilians. These fragments testify to the presence of the prosta movain the church. They also confirm the opinions concerning the faint understandingof the Church Slavonic language by ordinary followers. In order for the faithful to ableto consciously participate in various sacraments, the texts contained in the trebnykswere adapted to local language reality.The Basilian trebnyks that are subject to analysis in this article (except for the oneprinted in Supraśl) are very similar to the Orthodox Trebnyk by P. Mohyla, referredto here as relevant to the context of the problem. The fact that the Basilians followedMohyla’s pattern so eagerly contradicts the emerging theories that the Basilian Orderwas engaged solely in the Polonisation activities.

„proszę księdza – ja naprawdę Go szukałem”. Religijne rozterki w poezji Zbigniewa Herberta

Author(s): Anna Wesolowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2015

The article is yet another attempt at reading Zbigniew Herbert’s poetry from the point of view of religious motifs, with emphasis on the attitude towards Christian rituals and the practice of taking part in them. In the discussion, I refer to poems from different periods of the poet’s artistic life – beginning with 1949 up to the Epilog burzy volume. The aim of the article is to point up the complexity of the problem of religiosity in Herbert’s poetry: simplifying faith through religious stereotypes, the inner conflict between faith and the inability to find one’s place in any particular religion. The discussion was inspired by texts by Tomasz Garbol, Aleksander Fiut, Andrzej Franaszek and Stanisław Barańczak.

„Raptus Europae. Dziennik” Józefa Wittlina

Author(s): Ewa Wielgosz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2017

The article refers to Józef Wittlin’s diary–unpublished and unknown to readers. The text, composed of notes taken from the 1920s to the year 1976 (the year of the author’s death), is of paraliterary and syncretic character, and bears the title “Raptus Europae. Dziennik” (“Raptus Europae. A Diary”). Wittlin’s daughter, Elżbieta Wittlin Lipton, the poet’s only heiress, made it available for inspection and publication only to a few literary historians. Among the diary’s notes we find, inter alia, a handwritten fragment of “Sól ziemi” (“The Salt of the Earth”), notes to second part and a project of third part of “Powieść o cierpliwym piechurze” (“Story of a Patient Infantryman”), detailed plans of intended novels, rough drafts of the drama “Barabasz” (“Barabbas”), notes from travels to Europe and sketches of unfinished poems. The present paper focuses on Wittlin diary’s autobiographical character.

„Rozwiecznione w horyzont”. Wieki średnie Stanisława Barańczaka

Author(s): Piotr Bogalecki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 26/2016

The article provides an interpretation of Middle Ages, a poem from Stanisław Barańczak’s debut publication Facial Corrections (1968). Focussing on the way that numerous examples of zeugma and syllepsis are used, the author argues that this poem, which was probably inspired by the first Polish publication of the Waning of the Middle Ages by J. Huizinga, was created through the poet’s reflections on the structure of messianic time (kairos). As such it can be seen as both a polemic with materialism and a criticism of Christianity. In this way Middle Ages proves to be the first of post-secular Barańczak’s poems which herald the wealth of spiritual explorations in his later works.

„Samą zemstą dusza nie wyżyje...” Wendetta w Trylogii Henryka Sienkiewicza

Author(s): Cezary Zalewski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 09/2016

The article concerns the problem of revenge in Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy. It was distinguished and described two models of it. The first one is spontaneous, irrational, and emotional; the second one – i.e. clan revenge – is conceptual, and perfectly executed. The article examines such problems as: a circulations of violence, kinds of personal engagements in it (as subject, object and victim), and its effects.

„Silę ucho”, czyli co słychać w przekładzie. Niemieckojęzyczne warianty wiersza Skakanka ufoistki Mirona Białoszewskiego na tle zabiegów „przekładania” codzienności na język poetycki

Author(s): Aleksandra Burba / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 23/2014

The article has been derived from a chapter of an MA thesis on everyday speech in Miron Białoszewski’s work. The text focuses on exposition of methodological assumptions - the notion of everyday speech and its translation into poetic language in Białoszewski’s works. In particular, the article discusses a series of non-professional translations of the poem UFO agent’s skipping rope into German, as an example of the functioning of the dominant of everyday speech in translations of Białoszewski’s poetry.

„Slyšme jeden strašlivý příběh“

K exemplům v 17. a 18. století, zvláště v českých postilách

Author(s): Tomáš Havelka / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 3/2016

This study refers to the current neglect over research into early modern exempla. Exempla have an unclear genological underpinning (some researchers tend towards the view that they do make up a genre, while others see them more as a literary procedure), while in Bohemia they lack specific catalogues. Studies of period terminology and practice indicate how exempla were perceived in 17th and 18th century homiletic literature and the extent to which preachers might be influenced by their rhetorical rules. It indicates the differences between the use of exempla among preachers upholding traditional rhetorical practice (eloquentia antiqua) and those employing new rhetoric (eloquentia nova). While the former (e.g. Matěj Václav Štajer) had to adapt the entire structure of their preaching in order to incorporate a frequently extensive section of inserted narratives, the latter (e.g. Bohumír Hynek Josef Bilovský and Fabián Veselý) incorporated exempla directly into expository passages in various ways (using them as expository material, removing the compositional seams, inserting their own commentaries, compositionally dividing selected exempla and so forth). The author concludes by considering the reasons for the disappearance of exempla after the middle of the 18th century. As an example of the interpretational possibilities he adds the use of the same narrative by three preachers and points out the varied nature of the issues which the quest for the usage origins of specific exempla might raise.

„Spraw, żebyś był”. Z Elżbietą Wittlin-Lipton rozmawia Łukasz Tischner

Author(s): Lukasz Tischner / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2015

„Studia Wschodniosłowiańskie”, pod red. Haliny Twaranowicz, t. 7, Białystok 2007, ss. 427.

Author(s): Iwona Borys,Irena Chowanska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: XII/2007

„Stvořený — ne zrozený“

Antigenerické psaní

Author(s): Aage A. Hansen-Löve / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2017

Translation of the study „»Geschaffen – nicht gezeugt«: Antigenerisches Erzeugen vs. genetisches Zeugen“;in Lars Schneider, Aage Hansen-Löve, Michael Ott (edd.): Natalität. Geburtals Anfangsfigur in Literatur und Kunst (München: Fink 2014), s. 195–224.

„Sytuacja kafkowska” – projekt definicji

Author(s): Paulina Urbanska,Tomasz Wójcik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2016

„Szlisselburska Odyseja”… Działalność antypaństwowa i twórczość literacka legendarnej rewolucjonistki Wiery Figner

Author(s): Iwona Anna NDiaye / Language(s): Polish / Issue: XVI/2014

This article presents the literary work of Vera Figner (1852–1942), Russian activist of Narodniki,sentenced to death for the participation in the preparations for the assassination of Tsar AlexanderII, changed into penal servitude for life. Before her judgment, Figner spent twenty months in thePeter and Paul Fortress in a single cell. For the following twenty years she lived in the Szlisselburgfortress, known as the “Russian Bastille.” Literature and her literary creation constituted the antidoteto the difficult reality of prison. The Russian State Archive of Literature and Art possesses manuscriptcopies written in prison by Vera Figner from memory. A beautiful card of her steadfast attitude andextraordinary courage recorded in her memoirs was edited after her release from prison: Prisonersfrom Szlisselburg, When the clock of life stopped, after Szlisselburg and autobiography Preservedwork. Vera Figner’S memoirs are an irreplaceable source of historical data and fit in with the richtradition of literature, next to the achievements of the whole galaxy of revolutionaries-Populists(M. Noworusskij, M. Frolenko, N. Morozov and others). Figner was very talented and clearlycaptured an important period in the history of the Russian revolutionary struggle. The chaptersdevoted to the National Will provide a rich material for the study of the history of that organization,representing a unique and interesting source of knowledge of the theoretical foundations of people’sviews. Figner beautifully painted the portraits of old companions, but above all discovered thepsychology of the prisoner incarcerated for many years.

„Taki nieciekawy człowiek...”. Wokół biografii Bolesława Leśmiana

Author(s): Ewa Rajewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 16/2009

The article discusses five biographies of the poet that have been published in the past few years. A highly complex and contradicting figure of Leśmian, a great poet and unsuccessful notary public, a provincial from the capital Warsaw, a misanthrope with busy social life, still arouses interests among the public – the more so that his first biography written by Łopuszański and entitled Leśmian was published as late as 2000. Łopuszański, who has been working on Leśmian for twenty years, has published the results of his biographical investigations in his two subsequent books: Zofia i Bolesław Leśmianowie (2005) and Bolesław Leśmian. Marzyciel nad przepaścią (2006). In turn, Leśmian. Encyklopedia (2001) by Rymkiewicz is a different book being a ”personal” encyclopaedia, a somewhat patchy biography that focuses on arbitrarily selected entries chosen by its author, whereas Leśmian, Leśmian… Wspomnienia o Bolesławie Leśmianie zebrane przez Adama Wiesława Kulika (2008) is a collection of memoirs, a record of conversations that the author had with the inhabitants of Hrubieszów and Zamość who knew Leśmian personally in the 1920s and the 1930s – his colleagues at the Bar, workers of the notary’s office, his acquaintances, neighbours and friends of his daughters.

„Theater ist ein absoluter Ort”. Zum multimedialen Theater Tankred Dorsts in seinen mittelalterlichen Dramen

„Theater ist ein absoluter Ort”. Zum multimedialen Theater Tankred Dorsts in seinen mittelalterlichen Dramen

Author(s): Alexandra Chiriac / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2013

Tankred Dorst’s epic drama of medieval origin displays not only an amalgamation of various dramatically intertwined constructions and a heterogeneity of structural theatrical fabric, but also a mix of different literary genres, in which he tries to bring to life disparate scenes of personal reality, fragments, impressions with a complete disregard to the dramatic economy. His multimedia theatre is an intertextual webbing that aims to bring to light the controversial connection of the present sensibility to the overwhelming burden of the tradition. Due to their open structure and free arrangement of scenes, his station-dramas fail to offer any historical authenticity, but bring forward the ever deceiving nature of the absolute truth, be it literary, theatrical, historical or social.

„To” Magdaleny Tulli

Author(s): Ewa Wiegandt / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 22/2013

The article analyses and interprets Włoskie szpilki [Italian High Heels] in the context of autobiographic writing, which is a new phenomenon in Tulli’s creative development. The analysis of autobiographical writing consists in a description of subject-construction. The construction is determined by combination of roles: the real author, the literary author, and the narrator-character. The style of the novel is characterized by the use of Holocaust topoi, and “March talk”, which leads the writer to the discovery that Polish post-war antisemitism castigates Jews for concealing their extraction. The aesthetic of postmemory, manifested in the novel, is interpreted as a transition from the modern rhetoric of inexpressibility and unutterableness, to the postmodern aesthetic of expression of what is absent.

„Tu Dafnis [...] pogrzebion” – próba alegorycznej lektury sielanki Szymona Szymonowica {Rocznica}

Author(s): Ewa Rot-Buga / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2016

The article is devoted to allegorical themes in Szymon Szymonowic’s {Rocznica} ({Anniversary}) in the context of the tradition of funeral idyll. {Anniversary} is a funeral idyll which contains biographical allegories and references to then current events. It commemorates Jan Zamoyski and his achievements in the field of culture. It was probably written memorialize the first anniversary of Zamoyski’s death (1606). Daphnis represents Zamoyski, whereas Thestylis - his wife Barbara, and the narrator is probably Szymonowic himself. The description of the burial is based on the framework of bucolic convention. There are other levels of the allegory, connected with the name of Daphnis as the supreme creator of poetry (Master Poet) and the sense of identifying a shepherd with a poet. Szymonowic consciously uses these and other biographical allegorical themes and intertextually refers to Vergil and Kochanowski. {Anniversary} is build according to the rules and convention of a funeral idyll as it contains many epicedial themes and levels of allegory. Thanks to the character of Dafnis-Zamoyski as well as many Polonization measures, it is strictly connected with the contemporary culture.

„Tylko mówisz – milczysz”. Wiersz-światłocień

Author(s): Dawid Kraszewski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 25/2016

The author of the article puts Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poems, the poet from Gdańsk, as the subject to reflextion. The considerations include the following volumes of poetry: Te Deum (2008), Black square (2009), Between (2013). The author analyses the selected poems in reading-response criticism aspect and in the context of the theory of language mediation and the act of communica- tion. By developing allusions to light and shade figure philosophy by Martin Heidegger as well as the analogies of Dąbrowski’s poetry to photography, he tries to show the specificity of Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poetic output.

„Who are you?” Wokół fundamentalnych pytań o tożsamość – na podstawie Alicji w Krainie Czarów Lewisa Carrolla

Author(s): Bogumila Kurzeja / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2015

A "strange tale" written by an English mathematician has inspired creators of literature and art for years. The fundamental question posed by the story is: "Who are you?" These words do not so much evoke anxiety as force the reader to philosophical and sociological and existential reflection. From this point of view, Carroll's story constitutes one of the most important books in the world dealing with these issues. This article proposes that the book should be read as a search for our own identity, in the shape of a little girl lost in a fairy-tale world.