Slovo 8, 2020

 

ARTICLE

Andreea BĂJENARU

Imaginația intermitentă. O incursiune în proza lui Bruno Schulz (Intermittent Imagination. An Incursion in the Prose of Bruno Schulz), p. 5-21

Abstract. In the short story collection, The Cinnamon Shops, written by the Polish author Bruno Schulz, the usual order of things – sometimes imperceptibly, sometimes obviously – is replaced by another order, belonging to the realm of imagination. The purpose of this article is not to show what is reality and what is fantasy in this literary world, but rather to follow the alternation and interlacing of these two orders—reality and fantasy—while also emphasizing the specificities of this intricate composition’s execution.

Keywords: Bruno Schulz; The Cinnamon Shops; imagination; reality; fantasy.

Bianca-Elena CHIRILĂ

Aleksandr Vvedenski și avangarda rusă (Aleksandr Vvedensky and the Russian Avant-Garde), p. 22-35

Abstract. The present article analyses three stages of A. I. Vvedensky’s work, both stylistically and thematically. Special attention is paid to the literary circle of the Russian avant-gardist, as well as to the influence rendered on him by the official and unofficial literary groups, OBERIU and Chinari. The purpose of our article is to identify the characteristics of each poetic stage in the work of A. I. Vvedensky, as well as to highlight general traits of the stadial lyrical development of the late Russian avant-gardist.

Keywords: The work of Aleksandr Vvedensky; avant-garde; OBERIU; Chinari.

Lorena-Giorgiana HEREDEA

Simbolistica culorii roșii în opera lui Leonid Andreev (The Symbolism of the Colour Red in the Work of Leonid Andreyev), p. 36-47

Abstract. Passed through the filter of Expressionism, the prose and plays of Leonid Andreyev present reality in a distorted, even exaggerated manner. Nevertheless, the expressed ideas seem more direct and more sincere, and the negative emotions are not indistinct, they emerge in the same way that they form inside the human soul, before ever being expressed through words. The work of Andreyev is read, felt, and its echoes are heard even in the darkest corners of our consciousness. The impressions received after reading are also due to the unique use of colours. In this research, we identify the symbolism of one of the most significant colours in the work of Leonid Andreyev. This exhaustive analysis is set at the frontier between literature and psychology because it is aimed at identifying the links between colours and the psychological traits of Andreyev’s characters.

Keywords: Leonid Andreyev; symbolism of colour; madness; death.

Mara IONESCU

Moscova epocii NEP în proza timpurie a lui Mihail Bulgakov (Moscow in the NEP Era in the Early Prose of Mikhail Bulgakov), p. 48-64

Abstract. The debut of Mikhail Bulgakov took place in the spring of 1922 when he began publishing essays, feuilletons, stories, and satirical sketches in periodicals and newspapers. In his prose, which focuses on the immense metropolis of Moscow at the beginning of the 1920s, Mikhail Bulgakov describes the capital’s restoration after a decade marked by two wars, more precisely the First World War (1914–1917) and the Russian Civil War (1917–1921). The author’s narrative discourse focuses on some aspects of life, presented anecdotally, and offers the reader a moralizing ending. In this paper, we analysed the early short prose of Mikhail Bulgakov, which describes, in an anecdotal form of literary reportage, scenes from the metropole at the beginning of the 1920s. The atmosphere of social anarchy and economic depression, which prevailed during the civil conflict, left a disastrous mark on everyone in the capital, but thanks to the vigorous process of economic recovery and social order, a new social stability came about, and the soviet capital acquired a modern look.

Keywords: Bulgakov’s early prose; Moscow; NEP; Mercantile Renaissance; The Golden City

TRANSLATIONS

Daniil Harms – avangarda continuă (recenzie la Cazul Daniil Harms. Supraviețuirea avangardei ruse) (Daniil Kharms – A Continuous Avant-Garde (A Review of The Case of Daniil Kharms. The Survival of Russian Avant-Garde)), p. 88-92

Book review by Bianca-Elena CHIRIL

Simbolismul și estetica modernistă în spațiul literar slav (recenzie la Simbolismul în literaturile slave) (Symbolism and the Modernist Aesthetic in the Slavic Literary Landscape (A Review of Symbolism in Slavic Literature)), p. 93-96

Book review by Mara IONESCU