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This article suggests reading Grabiński’s story called False Alarm through realistic elements present in it. The literary work by the author of The Motion Demon seems to resist the poetics of realistic writing, however its elements appear in many novellas. In this article False Alarm is treated as a tale revealing the mechanisms of realism itself, understood as making up a narration which remains in close relation with reality outside the text. Using the tools of Lacan’s psychoanalysis, Grabiński may be seen as a writer who protects the realism of reality, showing that it always includes some inexplicable remainder beyond symbolic meaning, unable to be integrated in rationalized reasoning. That “remainder” requires making use of an uncanny tale, however it allows us to see to what extent Grabiński aimed at describing reality with all its unpredictability and inexplicability.
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The article entitled ‘Spaces transformed (Creation of the world in prose on Stefan Grabiński) focuses on the issues of creating and describing reality in Grabiński’s prose. I will pay meticulous attention to the so-called ‘transformed spaces’. The reflections include in this work concerning the problem of space as myth and the most important problem: obsession of space and spaces damned. The article concerns the complex issue of the space and relation between space to man describing in this prose. Also concerns the spaces illusory, significant use of metaphors of dreams and vision. Article concerns with the problem of moved in Grabiński’s prose and problem that the human mind is priority element, which may creating the world. Grabiński is fascinated by multi-existence. Man and the world are not one-dimensional in his works. There is a multiplicity of realities. In this reality man is lonely and feels alienated from the surrounding spaces but also he' s co-existenent trapped inside them.
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Opening sentences raise a lot of interest of both linguists and common Polish speakers. It is evident from numerous websites in which Internet users share their observations on the best opening sentences of books (most often novels), as well as theoretical papers and writing guides. The analysis of opening sentences of ten novels by Marek Krajewski (co-author of two of them being Mariusz Czubaj) is to provide an answer to the question to what extent the utterance opening of the texts of the Wroc³aw-based prose writer fulfill the requirements to be met by such type of constructions. It turns out that most crucial are syntactic and semantic features rather than lexical ones. The clash between theoretical assumptions and the M. Krajewski’s writing practice shows that opening sentences of his novels not always fall into classical determinants of incipient formulas. It also illustrates the thesis that a skillful writer does not need to cling to theoretical assumptions to create good opening sentences and novels translated into nearly twenty languages.
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This article contains a selection of notions from the Guidebook to the Novels of the West Slavs (a working title). The Guidebook is addressed predominantly  at researchers involved in comparative studies of the literatures of the West Slavs and it will cover fifty years (1945–1995) of novels written by West Slavic authors: Kashubian, Polish, Slovak (from Slovakia and the so-called  Lower Land), Czech as well as Upper and Lower Lusatian, and how they changed. Each entry will consist of a brief presentation of a novel’s content, bibliographical information (the subsequent editions, possible translations;  reception in the other languages will be limited exclusively to the West Slavs area), interpretation, a novel’s significance to a writer’s achievements,  specific national literature and, finally, the West Slavs’ novels as a whole, a selection (maximum five items) of the most important literature on the subject.
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With the exception of Lem’s works, Polish science fiction of the communist era is largely forgotten. Anglo-American readers know only fragments of Lem’s literary work, and they know almost nothing about other Polish science fiction writers. The aim of this article is to familiarize Anglo-American audience with seven Polish science fiction novels written in the communist era: Farther than Hatred (Dalej niż nienawiść) by Wojciech Bieńko (1963); Aspasia (Aspazja) by Andrzej Ostoja-Owsiany (1958); To Drain the Sea (Wyczerpać morze) by Jan Dobraczyński (1961); Arsenal (Arsenał) by Marek Oramus (1985); Paradisia (Paradyzja) by Janusz A. Zajdel (1984); The Robot (Robot) by Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg (1977); Imago (Imago) by Wiktor Żwikiewicz (1985).
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A translation of a novel by Hatice Meryem "Me and my misery companion, Turkey".
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Works by Gertrud von le Fort belong with literary religious discourse and enter a debate between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.The writer sets her plots in the past, most frequently in the Middle Ages, which enables her to offer a critical assessment of contemporary political, ethical and religious issues.The article presents various connections between literature and religion, in terms of both motifs and style. References to religion are found in the thematic, axiological and linguistic layers of her texts. The analysed works comprise the novellas Der Dom (The Cathedral) and Am Tor des Himmels (At the Heavenly Gate) as well as the novel Magdeburgische Hochzeit (The Magdeburg Wedding). These works also reflect the phenomenon of the so-called cultural Christianity. Le Fort’s characters are not indifferent to the religious system, even if they do not fully identify with it.
Studia Slavica
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2013
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vol. 17
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issue 2
189-196
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At the beginning of 2012 in Bulgaria was published Ôèçèêà íà òúãàòà (Physics of sorrow / of longing) by Georgi Gospodinov, one of the most important Bulgarian writers of the younger generation. Since the release of the book, Bulgarian literary scholars and critics are in dispute about whether Bulgaria has finally its contemporary, post- or even postpostmodern novel. My paper is an attempt to answer the question why the Bulgarian literature is waiting for a novel, and whether and how it has been used by Gospodinov – writer and literary scholar. The text poses also question about the boundaries of the novel genre. The text focuses on the use of myth, which turns out to be important for the story itself, as well as for its reception. Bulgarian writer deconstructs the myth of Minotaur, using the figure of the labyrinth in the structure of the book. Resigning from the classical myth, Gospodinov goes to meet the expectations of readers placed on the genre of the novel, which by Bartoszyñski is „specific creation of a social mythology”.
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The article is an attempt to describe the cultural phenomenon of Zakopane in the early 20th century on the basis of Witkacy’s Pożegnanie jesieni [Farewell to Autumn]. In the dynamic and multi-layered plot of his novel Witkacy, emotionally involved but also with his usual sarcastic and critical distance, presents a collection of characters who make up a collective model of a specific group of residents of Zakopane set against the background of a clearly defined mountain space (the action of the novel takes place in Zakopane). The key motifs of the novel correspond to the narcotic Zakopane demonism — a style characteristic of the Zakopane culture at the turn of the centuries and using the legend and creative capital of the Young Poland movement in the Tatras. An important pla­ne bringing together the protagonists’ sentimental sublimations in the novel is music as a universal form of art, using the power of sound, i.e. communication tool available to all sensitive recipients. Two protagonists compose and perform it (Żelisław Smorki and Prince Azalin Prepudrech), others listen to it. Smorski is a pupil of Karol Szymanowski (who lived in Zakopane at the time); the name of the composer recurs several times, which testifies to the author’s intention to make his literary fiction credible. The model of the protagonists’ pianistic interpretation also draws on the virtuoso method of Egon Petri, who in the inter-war period ran his own piano school in Zakopane.
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The following essay is dedicated to a particular way of the creation of space and places by Grabinski in his novels. These spaces can be both analysed as an action scenes and as an important part of the story building up the overall horror atmosphere. An aptly constructed space can evoke the impression of fear and danger. Together with other irrational incidents in the storis, space co-creates the very atmosphere in the novels by Stefan Grabinski. It must not, however, be forgotten that this space can as well be fully meaningful by itself. The evil houses play a particular horror-bearing role in the Grabinski's literary creations. It is said that such literary figures represent a hidden core of the human nature, as if they were two emmanations of the personality's structure combining both the waking life and the sphere of dreaming. Space so originally thought by Grabinski is a means to their symbolic presentations as weird, unconscious yet always active reality.
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The text presents the main trends in Bulgarian literary development from the 1990s to the present day through the highlights of the lyrical boom of the 1990s and the novel wave since 2001 on. Some lines of continuity are outlined, tracing back to the 1960s (regarding the literary experiment and dissident attitude), and the period before 1944 (the adoption/challenge of the modernist tradition in the 1990s). A separate research topic is the fi xation of the critical interest on certain writers’ personalities.
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The dichotomy of a „high style” and a „low style” goes back to Lomonosov's delineation of a „high style”, a „middle style”, and a „low style” in his famous Ritorika (1748), or- in the Czech setting - to Jungmann's theory of styles formulated in his Slovesnost (1820). Though the trichotomy does not solve the problems in classifying styles and genres, the delineation of the three basie stylistic qualities still preserves it validity in the theory of linguistic practi- ces (such as orthoepic variation, lexical choices, etc.), and does not lose its explanatory po- wer in folk linguistic considerations. The manifestations of „high” (elaborated) and „low” (restricted) discursive practices are illustrated using the analysis of a Czech „sophisticated crime novel” Stin katedraly (The Shadow of the Cathedra!) by Miloś Urban. In this novel, both practices characteristic of communication competencies of the two main heroes of the novel are linguistically represented, contrasted and hyperbolized.
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The author laid out an interpretation Stephan Grabiński's Shadow of Bafomet with aspect of inspirations, the most important in his writings. After revealing, how Grabiński attorned to literature his view of world, author taped deductions to explain the most problematic parts of literary work, which he analyzed. By dint of this approach, Shadow of Bafomet was pointed as writing integrating all of the most Grabiński's inspirations. In conclusion, he presented possible consequences and sequels these cogitations - the most important of them is exhaustion of Grabiński's novel to canvass not only novelist's writings, but also whole weird fiction genre.
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The article aims to draw attention to Konrad Tomasz Lewandowski’s Satan and Company. Further Adventure of Satan from the Seventh Grade (2017), the official continuation of Kornel Makuszyńsk’s Satan from the Seventh Grade. Moreover, the author presented a short description of Satan from the Seventh Grade original publication, taking into account the reasons for the current lower level of about Makuszyński. The author shows that Makuszyński’s novel inspired Lewandowski to create an intriguing story, full of surprising twists and turns, set in the cyberworld, important for the contemporary young readers. Satan and Company can be considered a worthy continuation of Makuszyński’s novel, showing a cheerful life philosophy. Lewandowksi provides his readers with humour and optimism that were the hallmarks of Makuszyński’s fiction. In the contemporary world, often difficult, full of sadness and suffering, it seems to be a right way of showing children that despite adversities, it is worth smiling, also while reading a good book.
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The article discusses the literary representations of the experience of unwanted pregnancy and abortion in new women’s prose. The author of the article refers to the novels published between 2003 and 2016. He considers the previously conducted research on the same subject (especially that of Agnieszka Mrozik). However, he concentrates mainly on the prose created in the last few years. He is above all interested in changes regarding the problem of unwanted pregnancy and abortion that occurred after 1989. When writing about this aspect of female experience has appeared in new prose, it is usually about the past and used to question the morality of the Polish People’s Republic. Recently the problem of unwanted pregnancy seems to be non­‑existent as all issues pertaining to maternity are solved in a similar way: despite initial hesitations the heroines of the novels decide to have babies and never regret their choice. In this context Aleksandra Zielińska’s novel Przypadek Alicji (The case of Alice) seems to be especially interesting. Considerations concerning this novel appear in the final part of the article.
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The main issues discussed in this article are the intertextual relationships between two novels: one the most famous modernistic texts — Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Hours by Michael Cunningham. The American writer’s novel alludes already in the title to Woolf’s work. The Hours was the working title for Mrs Dalloway. The detailed analysis of the various references to it acknowledges the hypotext in the Cunningham novel and proves that intertextuality in this case has its mainly existential dimension: for heroines of The Hours Mrs Dalloway provides an opportunity for not only re-writing or re-reading but for re-existing as well.
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The subject of this paper is the theoretical fiction genre as a manifestation of interdiscursive relations between fiction and theory/criticism. Firstly, this paper offers a brief overview of the  constitutive features  of  the  theoretical  fiction  genre;  and  secondly,  these  features  are interpretatively confirmed through the novel  Papokot na svetot (Navel of the World) by the Macedonian writer, Venko Andonovski.
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The subject of this paper is the theoretical fiction genre as a manifestation of interdiscursive relations between fiction and theory/criticism. Firstly, this paper offers a brief overview of the  constitutive features  of  the  theoretical  fiction  genre;  and  secondly,  these  features  are interpretatively confirmed through the novel  Papokot na svetot (Navel of the World) by the Macedonian writer, Venko Andonovski. 
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This article is a brief study on urban space in the prose of the author of The Motion Demon. The author considers the imagery and symbolic presentation of urban area by Grabiński. Particular attention is paid to the labyrinthine character of the city and the related problem of roaming the streets and captivity. The article presents the question of diverse and multi-level perception of urban space by the author of Baphomet’s Shadow.
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