Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2023.1
Věra Hejhalová, Martin Šemelík
Editorial
编辑
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This article analyzes elements of Enrique Vila-Matas’ narrative, which seeks alternative forms to the tradition established in the novel genre from the 19th century onwards. As this article endeavors to illustrate, Vila-Matas places himself on the edge of the abyss to the extent that he assumes the risk of failure when he fragments the protagonist, thus turning the action into a rambling disintegrated perspective, and moving freely through literary genres. The paper discusses how the author conceives his work in the eyes of readers who are challenged to become active participants in this creative act. It also analyzes how a willingness to take risks in his literary work has helped to establish Vila-Matas as a successful writer. What will happen to him when he crosses the shadow line of his triumph?
{"title":"El triunfo de la derrota en la creación literaria de Enrique Vila-Matas","authors":"Jolanta Rękawek","doi":"10.7311/acta.59.2022.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7311/acta.59.2022.9","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes elements of Enrique Vila-Matas’ narrative, which seeks alternative forms to the tradition established in the novel genre from the 19th century onwards. As this article endeavors to illustrate, Vila-Matas places himself on the edge of the abyss to the extent that he assumes the risk of failure when he fragments the protagonist, thus turning the action into a rambling disintegrated perspective, and moving freely through literary genres. The paper discusses how the author conceives his work in the eyes of readers who are challenged to become active participants in this creative act. It also analyzes how a willingness to take risks in his literary work has helped to establish Vila-Matas as a successful writer. What will happen to him when he crosses the shadow line of his triumph?","PeriodicalId":32174,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75493907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gary Snyder is mostly known as a poet of the beat generation. Nonetheless, he also shaped his poems and writings into a particular poetical anti-imperialism. Far from depicting the legends associated with this rebellious time, Gary Snyder built a “Real Work” of poetry by foreseeing the ecological crisis and the ecocide we are currently facing. Th e paper discusses how his anti-imperialism is composed of three poetical parts, which reshape our imagination: geopoetics, anthropoetics and cosmopolitics. Th e article demonstrates that Snyder’s poetry is about the language itself and about the three outsides of imperialism; geopoetics (otherness), anthropoetics (human beings) and cosmopolitics (how the first two combine into a new political outlook).
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Inspired by the spatial turn in cultural studies, numerous concepts for the analysis of Eastern Europe in the 20th century emerged from the turn of the millennium onwards, of which Alexander V. Prusin’s Borderlands, Mark Leven’s Rimlands and Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands are compared with one another. The paper aims to answer the question of whether and how these concepts can be made fruitful for historical scholarship, especially for the study of mass violence, occupation rule, and for a comparison of dictatorships.
受文化研究空间转向的启发,20世纪东欧分析的许多概念从千禧年开始出现,其中Alexander V. Prusin的Borderlands, Mark Leven的Rimlands和Timothy Snyder的Bloodlands相互比较。本文旨在回答这样一个问题,即这些概念是否以及如何对历史学术,特别是对大规模暴力、占领统治的研究,以及对独裁统治的比较,产生有益的影响。
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In a time of globalisation, massive fi nancialization of economies and unbounded neoliberalism, we are witnessing an unprecedented domination of the economic over other social spheres, and especially over political power. Th is article analyses two contemporary novels, Cosmopolis (Don DeLillo, 2003) and Resistere non serve a niente (Walter Siti, 2012) in order to explore the failings of politics in the context of what Étienne Balibar calls “capitalisme absolu” (“absolute capitalism”). It is argued here that both novels show how fi nance (re)confi gures the balance of power, subordinating politics to economics; to the point of undermining the workings of democratic institutions. Th ese novels invite us to refl ect on the way in which literature can propose a counter-discourse and contribute to opening up new possibilities for weakened democracies.
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Proposing Tintin as an emblem of Belgian travelers who visited a communist country, the paper offers an analysis of the representation of Poland in two travel stories from Frenchspeaking Belgium: Pologne 1948 by Max Deauville and Canzona pour l’Europe by Sophie Deroisin. The article demonstrates how two Belgian writers endeavor to assimilate the described reality, whilst struggling with the language barrier. The paper discusses the fact that although both authors visit Poland under communism, politics takes up little space in their works. Instead, they choose to focus on the country’s past, especially the Second World War, as well as on the Polish landscape.
这篇论文提出丁丁是访问共产主义国家的比利时旅行者的象征,并分析了讲法语的比利时的两个旅行故事对波兰的代表:马克斯·多维尔(Max Deauville)的《Pologne 1948》和索菲·德罗瓦辛(Sophie Deroisin)的《Canzona pour l 'Europe》。这篇文章展示了两位比利时作家如何努力同化所描述的现实,同时与语言障碍作斗争。本文讨论的事实是,虽然两位作者都访问了共产主义时期的波兰,但政治在他们的作品中占据的空间很小。相反,他们选择关注这个国家的过去,尤其是第二次世界大战,以及波兰的风景。
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Introduction to “Contemporary Hegemonic and Anti-Imperialist Discourses in Literature and Culture: Postulates, Visions, Aesthetics”
“当代文学与文化中的霸权主义与反帝国主义话语:前提、愿景与美学”导论
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The present paper analyses the introduction to the novel La cognizione del dolore by Carlo Emilia Gadda, written in the form of a dialogue by its author and entitled L'Editore chiede venia del recupero chiamando in causa l'Autore. The introduction provides a comprehensive account of the main motifs of this novel and, at the same time, of Gadda’s work in general; its main point being a polemic against the objections of critics, who perceive the writer as “baroque” and grotesque, i.e. a writer who uses an overly complex style and narrative structure and represents reality in a distorted way. Drawing on recent critical studies as well as on research carried out on Gadda’s contemporary critics, the paper focuses on certain aspects of the text, such as its genesis, structure and its central motifs.
{"title":"Note sulla prefazione autoriale alla Cognizione del dolore di Carlo Emilio Gadda","authors":"Barbara Rejmak","doi":"10.7311/acta.59.2022.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7311/acta.59.2022.8","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper analyses the introduction to the novel La cognizione del dolore by Carlo Emilia Gadda, written in the form of a dialogue by its author and entitled L'Editore chiede venia del recupero chiamando in causa l'Autore. The introduction provides a comprehensive account of the main motifs of this novel and, at the same time, of Gadda’s work in general; its main point being a polemic against the objections of critics, who perceive the writer as “baroque” and grotesque, i.e. a writer who uses an overly complex style and narrative structure and represents reality in a distorted way. Drawing on recent critical studies as well as on research carried out on Gadda’s contemporary critics, the paper focuses on certain aspects of the text, such as its genesis, structure and its central motifs.","PeriodicalId":32174,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82084939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The memory of a dictatorial past continues to be one of the main referents in postdictatorial Chilean literature. However, an interest on the part of writers in the sociopolitical realities has not only served retrospective understandings, but expanded contemporary Chilean sociopolitical reality; such as, feminism criticism, estallido social and its social demands, or indeed the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the present paper proposes an outline of the current panorama of the post-dictatorial Chilean narrative which has emerged from sociopolitical reality of a country, in which reflections on the past cedes to a need to confront the challenges of the Chilean present.
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The question of conceiving literature as a political statement is at the heart of Nathalie Quintane’s work. Her approach currently revolves around a pragmatic and pragmatist conception of the work of art as an experience, that is, thinking of literature in terms of use and effect. Th is paper considers how Quintane’s approach results in what can be qualified as a “contextual” understanding of literature, which imagines the ramifications of the text in real life. Discussed here is how Quintane takes a stand against the dominant idea of a literary work as an autonomous and closed object, underlining how such a secessionist vision deprives literature of its possibilities of action.
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