LITERATURE
Florentina MARIN
Tipologia personajelor romanului Ludmilei Ulițkaia „Imago” / Types of Characters in Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s Novel "The Big Green Tent"
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: florentina.marin@lls.unibuc.ro
Keywords: fragmentation; intertextuality; evolution; archetypes; violence; Ulitskaya
Abstract
The following article is an analysis of the characters in Lyudmila Ulitkaia’s novel The Big
Green Tent. The writer offers a broad presentation of Russian society that spans a period of about a century,
highlighting various types of people, their fate and the imprint that political and social changes had on the
heroes’ personality. Using the notion of imago understood as the final stage in insects’ evolution, the writer
draws a parallel to the life of the individual, suggesting that moral and spiritual evolution should occupy a
leading place.
The study focuses on revealing the characters’ personalities using the Jungian theory of human
archetypes. It also concentrates on the situations, many of them conflicting, which polish the heroes' perception
of reality, the interpersonal relationships or their own beliefs. These situations show the conflicting nature of
characters, the inconsistency and disharmony that characterizes their psyche and generates chameleon attitudes,
cowardice or violence against other peers. It is noteworthy that in all these contexts fear is an important catalyst
in the psychological development of the characters. At the same time, the writer emphasizes the need of
reconciliation with the past to ensure the heroes’ integrity.
In comparison with the previous writings, Ulitskaya uses in this novel a wide arsenal of postmodernist
techniques, such as spatial and temporal fragmentation, collages and intertextuality to describe the complex
reality of Soviet period. In the end, the novel talks about the becoming of an entire nation, about the ways
citizens found in order to survive these turbulent times.
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Fatima TRBONJA
Usmenoknjiževni / mitski i baladeskni intertekst u romanima Imotski kadija Irfana Horozovića i Žena crvene kose Orhana Pamuka / Oral literary / Mythical and Baladesque Intertext in the Novels "Imotski kadija" by Irfan Horozović and "The Red-Haired Woman" by Orhan Pamuk
Institution: PhD(c), Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna
Email: aleksandragagic6@gmail.com
Keywords: intertextuality; myth; ballad; epic song; oral literary intertext; prototext; Irfan Horozović; Orhan Pamuk; Imotski kadija; The Red-Haired Woman
Abstract
The paper will present the mythical, epic and baladesque elements which, in specific ways,
participate in constructing the oral literary intertext in the novels 'Imotski kadija' by Irfan Horozović and 'The
Red-Haired Woman' by Orhan Pamuk. Although it is noticeable that texts have always established connections
with other texts of literature and culture, intertextuality as a technique began to be interpreted only in the sixties
of the last century, when post-structuralists raised the question of the autonomy of the literary work, i.e. the text.
In literary theory, we can trace the concept of intertextuality from Bakhtin (thesis on dialogue), Julia Kristeva
(mosaic of quotations), through Barthes (theory of text) and Genette (intertextuality within transtextuality), to
Croatian and Slovenian theorists Viktor Žmegač, Pavle Pavličić, Dubravka Oraić Tolić and Marko Juvan. As a
dominant feature of postmodern culture, intertextuality is particularly significant in postmodern novels such as
the ones written by, among others, the Bosnian author Irfan Horozović and the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan
Pamuk. The establishment of an intertextual dialogue with forms of oral literature (myth, epic song such as the
one in the novel The Red-Haired Woman and ballad in the novel Imotski kadija) is noticeable. In Pamuk's
novel, the ancient myth of Oedipus and the Iranian national epic Shahnama (a passage about Rustem and
Suhrab) are intertextually present, while in Horozović's novel there is a clear allusion to the Bosnian ballad
about Hasanaginica already in the title. The paper will show the ways of using the mentioned texts of the oral
cultures of the East and the West in the construction of novelistic narratives.
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MENTALITĂȚI
Diana Florentina POPESCU
Gastronomia românească din a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea, oglindită în jurnalele unor scriitori cehi / Romanian Gastronomy from the Second Half of the 19th Century Reflected in the Diaries of Some Czech Writers
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: dipopis@hotmail.com
Keywords: Cultural relations; travel journal; Czech writers; Romanian gastronomy; Romania
Abstract
The paper refers to three Czech writers from the 19th century who travelled to the Balkans
and wrote about Romania: Vítězslav Hálek, Emanuel Salomon Friedberg-Mirohorský and Josef Štolba.
Vítězslav Hálek wrote about Romania in Events in Černá Voda. Emanuel Salomon Friedberg-Mírohorský was a
painter and officer in the Austrian Army, who spent almost seven months in Romania and wrote the book On
the Danube to Romania. In his text Bucharest, Josef Štolba has detailed and admiring notes on the history,
economy, literature and culture of Romania.
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VARIA
Șerban Drugaș
The Primary Russian Chronicle About the Romanians
Institution: PhD., Balkan History Association
Email: serbangpdrugas@gmail.com
Keywords: Primary Russian Chronicle; Laurentian Chronicle; The Chronicle of Nestor; Romanians; Wallachians; Voloh; Vlah
Abstract
The subject analyzed here are the ethnonyms or politonyms Volsh-, Volkh-, or Volokhi in the
Primary Russian Chronicle. Two of the paragraphs in the chronicle reveal the mentioned population in two
historical moments, one related to the conviviality with the Slavs, and the other, again in the company of the
Slavs, at the arrival of the Hungarians. Revisiting the text of the original manuscript, now available online, in
the opinion of the author, the mentioned paragraphs can’t refer to an external political power, such as the
Frankish kingdom, which only temporary and inconclusively reached Pannonia. Internal and general historical
arguments demonstrate that the two paragraphs of the chronicle refer to a local population, of an important
demographical consistence in the area, since it switches power and land with the Slavic population. Therefore,
the analyzed fragments would rather refer to a well constituted local Romance population, the ancestors of the
Romanians, in Pannonia and Transylvania before the arrival of the Hungarians.
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Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu
Byzantine objects in medieval Rus’: a case study / Byzantine Objects in Medieval Rus’: A Case Study
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Oxford University
Email: elena_vasilescu@yahoo.co.uk
Keywords: gold pendant; Medieval Rus’; Byzantium; iconographer; Constantinople; iconography; Byzantine Masters; Egypt
Abstract
Pieces of enamel jewellery, usually wrought in gold, appear from time to time, in addition to
coins, in hoards discovered on the territory of the former Kievan Rus’. This is, for instance, the case with a
cloisonné enamel and gold pendant that represent sirens; it dates to the twelfth century and today is on display
within the Hermitage Museum. It was found in 1885 in Troitsky (Rylsky) Pereulok in Kiev.
This particular technique (enamel) is known to have been peculiar to the area from the beginning of the
eleventh century; the end of that century and the next constituted its maximum period of transmission.
The paper attempts to place the production of this golden pendant in the cultural context of its time.
Can Byzantine influences be detected in this work? If so, how did these reach the area? Did Byzantine artistic
workshops function there, as they did, for instance, in Italy from the twelfth century on (In Italy workshops that
made mosaic existed in the thirteenth century; see those in Venice producing tesserae for San Marco).
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IN MEMORIAM
In memoriam prof. univ. dr. Dorin Gămulescu (1936-2021) / In Memoriam Prof. PhD. Dorin Gămulescu (1936-2021)
Institution: Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
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Dușița RISTIN
In memoriam Miljurko Vukadinović (1953-2021)
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
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CENTENAR
Constantin GEAMBAȘU
O sută de ani de la înființarea lectoratului de limba română la Universitatea Jagiellonă din Cracovia / One Hundred Years Since the Establishment of the Romanian Language Lectureship at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Institution: Prof.PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: kgeambasu@yahoo.com
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BOOK REVIEWS
Gabriel-Andrei STAN
Antoaneta Olteanu, Sovietland, vol. I-IV,
Târgoviște: Cetatea de Scaun, 2019, 1836 p., ISBN 978-606-537-456-0; 978-606-537-457-7; 978-606-537-434-8; 978-606-537-435-5
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: gabriel-andrei.stan@lls.unibuc.ro
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Cristian CHIRCĂ
Camelia Dinu (coord.), Modernismul rus în Veacul de Argint, Oradea, Ratio et Revelatio, 2020, 348 p., ISBN 978-606-9659-11-3
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: cristian.chirca@lls.unibuc.ro
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Diana Florentina POPESCU
(Camelia Dinu (coord.), Simbolismul în literaturile slave, București: Pro Universitaria, 2020, 263p., ISBN 978-606-26-1233-7)
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: dipopis@hotmail.com
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Elena DRAGOMIR
Cosmin Popa, Elena Ceaușescu sau anatomia unei dictaturi de familie, București: Litera, 2021, 320 p., ISBN 978-606-33-7143-1
Institution: Postdoctoral researcher at Valahia University in Târgoviște
Email: dragomir_elena2005@yahoo.com
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Camelia DINU
Întâlniri. Poezii din Ucraina și Polonia, traduceri de Constantin Geambașu, Luiza Săvescu, Vasile Moga, Ioana-Diaconu Mureșan, Marina Ilie și Maria Hoșciuc, prefață de Ewa Goczal, postfață de Camelia Dinu, București: Tracus Arte, 2022, ISBN 978-606-023-435-7
Institution: Assoc.Prof. Habil. PhD, Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: camelia.dinu@lls.unibuc.ro
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