Teoria krytyczna a postęp techniczny

Author(s): Tomasz Łach / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2014

The debate on the social consequences of technological progress takes place between those who emphasizing the benefits of progress and those who put emphasis on the threat generated by the technology. The second group includes representatives of critical theory, whose aim was human emancipation by rebuilding the existing society. At the core of this project lies critique of industrial society and mass culture, including technical progress. This article presents the main idea of critical theory and critique of instrumental reason made by Max Horkheimer; critic of society and technology expressed by Herbert Marcuse, as well as his proposal to repair social life.

RED. S. JANECZEK, A. STAROŚCIC, Filozofia a religia w dziejach filozofii polskiej. Inspiracje - krytyka, Lublin 2014, ss. 521

Author(s): Patrycja Burba / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2014

ŚW. TOMASZ Z AKWINU, Komentarz do "Hermeneutyki" Arystotelesa, przekł. z j. łac. A.P. Stefańczyk, Lublin: Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu 2013, ss. 639

Author(s): Natalia Kunat / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2014

LEOKADIA ORĘZIAK, OFE. Katastrofa prywatyzacji emerytur w Polsce, Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa, Warszawa 2014, ss. 402

Author(s): Damian Maziarz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2014

Itinérance et métissage : pour une littérature qui se réinvente

Author(s): Eileen Lohka / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015

Nomadism and hybridity (métissage) are two keys words when it comes to Creole island societies. J.M.G. Le Clézio, Édouard Maunick and Ananda Devi of Mauritius all explore memory and language to erase (often constructed) boundaries between past and present, reality and the imaginary, land and sea, French and Creole. It is a way to transgress literary canons. Their poetics favour liminal spaces, a plurality of voices and meanings and an openness to the Other that may offer a new way of reading works written in the in-between space of exile — a condition becoming more and more common in today’s globalised world.

“El entenado” de Juan José Saer, mito, islas y límites

Author(s): María Elena Blay Chávez / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 10/2015

A cabin boy arrives with his crew to the territory of the Rio de la Plata. Saer was inspired by the story of Francisco del Puerto, a ship’s boy who travelled with the expedition of Juan Diaz de Solís that allegedly ended up eaten by a cannibalistic tribe of one of the islands of Parana’s delta. The hero is bound to learn from the new territory two times; but it is the search for identity, the narration to preserve memory, the construction of the general history, and the limits of one’s self that this article deals with.

The Trichotomy of the Island. The Islanders, the Others and the Enemies on Pitcairn Island: An Analysis of “Jutro przypłynie królowa” by Maciej Wasilewski

Author(s): Agata Tęcza / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2015

Pitcairn is inhabited by 56 people, largely the descendants of the mutineers aboard HMS Bounty. Despite being a British territory, the island never had a tight relationship with the Crown until 2004, when the British Empire had to settle a child molestation case that shook the whole island. In that case, 7 out of 14 men were accused of having sexual relations with minors during a timespan of almost 40 years. After the trial the island became divided into three camps — the Islanders, the Others, and the Enemies. Maciej Wasilewski’s book is a (literary) reportage of the author’s visit on Pitcairn after the trials of 2004. This article aims at analysing the three groups of islanders. By studying Wasilewski’s interviews with them, we try to examine the dynamics of this small and remote island and elaborate on the problematic division into “us” and “them” (the Islanders vs. Strangers and Others) that emerged in times of conflict and remains to this day.

La littérature francophone mauricienne, un écho à la littérature dix-huitièmiste comme héritage ?

Author(s): Sonia Dosoruth / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015

When the French novelist Bernardin de Saint-Pierre wrote “Paul and Virginia”, in 1787, little did he know the international impact the book would have. Indeed, this novel emblematises the whole of the Mauritian francophone literature. This is because the vast majority of authors, from the colonial period to date, have internalised some form of mimicry of the book. The legacy it supports ranges from the representation of the utopian island to the ideological and aesthetics values of The Enlightenment, all of which pass through culture, History, the marks of anti-slavery movement, or the works of Nature.

Subjectivité îlienne et cheminement : De Patrick Chamoiseau à Soeuf Elbadawi

Author(s): BUATA B. MALELA / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015

Our purpose is to study how the island is manifested in the relationship between the movement in space and identity in the Caribbean literary discourse. We took Chamoiseau for paradigmatic case of contemporary writer. Our idea is this: the question of the subject is a way to make a double social and literary attack in the intellectual universe. And subjectivity is only possible by a self-inner journey to another. This approach remains partial in Elbadawi which itself is limited to the exploration of an ego that suffers. And the conditions of possibility of this approach are threefold and is measured in space possible.

La isla de James y el biocentrismo como utopía en “El dios de Darwin” de Sabina Berman

Author(s): Eduardo E. Parrilla Sotomayor / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 10/2015

In this article I delve into a recently published novel, “El dios de Darwin” (2014), written by Sabina Berman. Its purpose revolves around the utopic implications of the author´s esthetic project. First, I examine the relationship between the two plots which are intertwined in the novel. One of them takes place nowadays, around 2012; the other happens in 1876, in the decline of Darwin’s life, since he is the main character. “El dios de Darwin” is the story of a secret document found in Westminster Abbey by Antonio Márquez, a zoologist. A moment before his murder by a fundamentalist cell in Dubai, he attains to send by email fragments of the secret document to three other pro-evolutionist friends. One of them is Karen Nieto, the main character of the contemporary plot. Struggling against Franco, Márquez’s former lover, who was a spy of a fundamentalist organization, Nieto at the end manages to rescue the secret document, he attempted to destroy. Within the second plot, the secret document (“Theological Autobiography”) and the circumstances of it being written by Darwin are interspersed until the end. The “Autobiography” was verily brought to light from censorship by Nora Barlow (1995), Darwin’s greatgranddaughter. The story unravels the unknown conversion to agnosticism experienced by the British naturalist. Since the novel is rich enough in scientific data and demonstrations extracted from The Origins of Species, The Descend of Man and the authentic Autobiography, I establish a parallelism between Darwin’s revolutionary contribution and the set of ideas about planetary ethics posed by the Brazilian theologian, Leonardo Boff.

Insular Arcadias: Islands in the Great War Fiction of J.-M.G. Le Clézio and Pat Barker

Author(s): Anna Branach-Kallas / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2015

The aim of my article is to explore the representation of the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues in “The Prospector” (1985) by French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio and of the Solomon Islands in the “Regeneration” trilogy (1991—1995) by a British writer Pat Barker. Both Le Clézio and Barker use and challenge the pastoral recourses belonging to the tradition of Great War writing and the convention of idealising remote Arcadian lands. Several insular myths are thus undermined by the two writers, who thus resituate remote islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans as integral parts of European modernity.

Les représentations de l’île Maurice dans l’imaginaire littéraire franco-mauricien

Author(s): Katarzyna Wiśniewska-Szaran / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015

Mauritius is a small island in the Indian Ocean, whose population approximates to that of Warsaw. Since its discovery, the island was ruled by several governments: Dutch, French, and English, before it finally became independent in 1968. On this piece of land of about 2,000 m2 live direct descendants of the inhabitants of three continents: Europe, Africa and Asia. The history of the island and the Mauritian people create its specificity. Undoubtedly, the fact that Mauritius is an island largely influences the Mauritian society. In my article, I will study how this impacts on the society, including its writers. I will seek to define the nature of their relationships. I will try to describe the various representations of the island in Franco-Mauritian literary fiction at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since this topos is in dichotomy of good and evil, I will consider the island as a synonym of a half-paradise and a half-prison. Subsequently, I will analyse it as a character of its own. Finally, I will argue that Mauritius can be seen as a reflection of the world, a miniature model. In summary, after examining the various images of Mauritius, I will try to demonstrate its special status in the Mauritian society, especially in literature.

Alfred Jarry et Jacques Lacan. Lalangue du Docteur Faustroll

Author(s): Jérémie Sallustio / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015

This article tackles the issue of alienation in the “Gestes et opinions du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien”, by Alfred Jarry. To do so, it analyzes a few of the metaphorical islands found in Book III, “De Paris à Paris par mer”. The analysis also posits a link with a lacanian concept: lalangue.

La configuración ideológica del insularismo en el regionalismo español. El caso de “La barraca” de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Author(s): Adriana Minardi / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 10/2015

This paper aims to study ideological configurations that arise from the effect of insularity in “La barraca” (belonging to the regionalist novel cycle) by Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. One of the main assumptions of this article is that the island effect is a narrative device which suggests regionalism as a class contradiction but also as a form of resistance against urban culture. The author of this article recognizes three rhetorical strategies employed by Ibáñez: mythemes dislocation, analysis of the effect of the Hegelian master / slave relationship, and the dialectic established between totem and taboo. In conclusion, the author focuses on the concept of politically peripheral nationalism.

La poetización de la añoranza en dos traducciones españolas del poema „Matka” de Julian Tuwim

Author(s): Aleksandra M. Jackiewicz / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 10/2015

The aim of the article is to present some of the translation difficulties that may arise while recreating the poetic idealization of nostalgia in the poem “Matka” by Julian Tuwim considered one of the most talented and renowned poets and translators of the period between the wars in Poland. The article focuses on the expressions that show profound links between the historical circumstances and personal experiences that are supposed to be an inspiration source for the author, and those that, in some cases, might be difficult to translate into Spanish, as well as may result from cultural and structural differences between the two languages. This comparative analysis is based on examples extracted from the Spanish translations of Julian Tuwim’s poem made by Maria Dembowska, Samuel Feijóo, Luis Melgarejo, and Joanna Studzińska.

Comptes rendus: Eileen Lohka, “La femme, cette inconnue Isle de France, terre des hommes”, L’Atelier d’écriture, La Pelouse, Trou d’Eau Douce, Île Maurice 2013, ISBN 978-99949-0-041-1

Author(s): Anna Szkonter-Bochniak / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015

Comptes rendus: Vicram Ramharai et Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François (dir.), “Marcel Cabon : écrivain d’ici et d’ailleurs”, Île Maurice : L’Atelier d’écriture, collection “Essais et critiques littéraires”, 2014, 203 p., ISBN 978-99949-39-06-0

Author(s): Sachita Samboo / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015

Comptes rendus: Antonella Emina (dir), “Léon-Gontran Damas. Cent ans en noir et blanc”, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2014, 340 p., ISBN 978-2-271-07915-2

Author(s): Józef Kwaterko / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015

Comptes rendus: Réal Ouellet, “La Relation de voyage en Amérique (XVIe—XVIIIe siècles). Au carrefour des genres”, Paris, éd. Hermann, coll. « La République des Lettres », 2015, 165 p., ISBN 978-2-7056 9010-6

Author(s): Józef Kwaterko / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015

Comptes rendus: Yannick Resch, “Écrire / danser la vie Colette et Isadora”. Paris, L’Harmattan, Collection Amarante, 2014, 197 p., ISBN 978-2-343-04556-6

Author(s): Magdalena Wandzioch / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2015