Volume 24, Issue 1

Volume 24 (2024)

Publication date: 23.08.2024

Description

The publication of this volume was financed by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University.

Cover design: Dorota Heliasz

Licence: CC BY

Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief Wacław Rapak

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Jakub Kornhauser, Tomasz Krupa

Issue content

Româna devine limbă oficială în Republica Moldova

Eugenia Bojoga

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 1 - 12

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.001.19710

On March 2 and 16, 2023, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopted the project regarding the replacement of the name “Moldovan language” with “Romanian language” as the official language. The im portance of this decision was commented on by politicians, analysts, writers, linguists, and state institutions. At the same time, however, it provoked criticism and protests from the parliamentary opposition and reverberated in the official circles of the Russian Federation. The materials published in Izvestia reveal all commentators’ concern in relation to the great danger in adopting the name of Romanian language. They fear that Moldova, as an independent state, will lose its sovereignty and will be united with Romania. The publication is an example of how the language problem has been politicised.

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Entre a dor e o texto: traços bíblicos em Horto de Incêndio

Łukasz Kraj

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 13 - 23

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.002.19711

The aim of this article is to analyse the role of biblical references in Al Berto’s (Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares’) last poetry volume, Horto de Incêndio, published in 1997. Previous research on this poetry has identified intertextuality, an interest in corporeality and the problem of the relationship between experience and text as dominant features of this work. Building upon these insights, I demonstrate that the numerous allusions to the Bible, especially evocations of the Apocalypse, in Horto de Incêndio are related to the author’s attempt to textualise the experience of illness and allow us to partially reconstruct his view of the ontology of the literary text.

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« J’ai connu un fou qui croyait que la fin du monde était arrivée » : l’apocalypse dans Paparazzi ou La chronique d’un lever de soleil avorté de Matéi Visniec

Sylwia Kucharuk

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 25 - 33

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.003.19712

Matéi Visniec’s play Paparazzi ou La Chronique d’un lever de soleil avorté presents a vision of the end of the world, brought about by the implosion of the Sun. The action of the dramatic play focuses on the protagonists’ reactions to the impending catastrophe, rather than on the apocalyptic event itself. Visniec uses the metaphor of the apocalypse as a tool to criticize society and its loss of values. He depicts how a consumer society can demoralize individuals, leading to their isolation and inability to engage in interpersonal communication.

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“Reste en écho la voix” – Itzhak Katzenelson’s Dos lid fun oysgehargetn yidishn folk in Batia Baum’s French Translation

Magdalena Sitarz

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 35 - 43

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.004.19713

This essay offers a discussion of Batia Baum’s translation of Katzenelson’s elegy into French. Opening with a presentation of the Maison de la culture yiddish – Bibliothèque Medem and Baum’s achievements as a translator from Yiddish, the article highlights the significance of the poem written in France during the German occupation and published in Paris shortly after WW2. In an illustrative analysis, challenges of the text are addressed and Baum’s choices are presented.

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Sobre la fórmula fraseológica ¡mal pecado! en el Libro de Buen Amor

Santiago Vicente Llavata

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 45 - 57

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.005.19714

The main aim of this article is to offer an analysis of the idiomatic expression ¡mal pecado!, together with its variant por mal pecado, in its narrative context, in its diachronic evolution through its continuity in the texts of our literary history, as well as in its phraseological standardization in the framework of the history of Spanish Lexicography. The results obtained indicate that the formula ¡mal pecado! constituted a very profitable stylistic procedure when it came to bringing out the emotional component in the plot of the work.

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Las formaciones identitarias y sus diversas perspectivas entre los inmigrantes polacos en Misiones (Argentina) durante el periodo 1930–1940: el caso de Casimira Kotur

Anna Wendorff

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 59 - 68

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.006.19715

The paper discusses the identity of Polish immigrants in the province of Misiones, Argentina. The first part of the article presents the historical context, while the second one comprehensively analyses the identity of one of the residents of Posadas, Casimira Kotur, based on interviews conducted with her. The working methods is based on the following theoretical concepts: narrative identity according to Paul Ricoeur, review of social roles of social actors and Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of polyphony.

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«Oda quiere dezir ffin e acabaminto de las cosas». El origen y la evolución de la expresión «quiere decir» en español

Andrzej Zieliński

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 69 - 79

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.007.19716

The objective of the paper is to analyze the origin and the evolution of the explanatory value of the construction <querer ‘want’ + infinitive>, documented in Castilian texts from the Middle Ages. Through a relatively large corpus of Latin texts (5th–12th centuries) and Spanish texts (13th–15th centuries), the Author explores the main linguistic and discursive reasons that determined its use in the Spanish language.

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Reviews

De la réécriture du conte de fées. Politique des contes. Il était une fois Perrault aujourd’hui... d’Alice Brière-Haquet

Timothée Charmion

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 81 - 86

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.008.19879

This review aims to discuss the book Politique des contes. Il était une fois Perrault aujourd’hui... by Alice Brière-Haquet. In this book, after replacing Charles Perrault’s tales in their original context of publication, the author shows how contemporary writers use these tales to put them in resonance with our current times and to express our era and its modernity. That way, she puts an interesting light on the work of Perrault, but also on the challenges involved today in the rewriting of Perrault’s tales. Moreover, her work shows that the parodic rewriting of Perrault’s tales is particularly alive today (the large corpus of these rewritings holds the attention by its ambition and its diversity) but also that the process of rewriting tales is not a specific practice of our contemporary era : indeed, Perrault himself used it in order to invite his readers to interpret political discourses of his time.

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Vieux visage, nouveaux regards : Histoire, Forme et Sens en littérature. La Belgique francophone. Tome 3 – L’évitement (1945–1970) de Marc Quaghebeur

Marie Giraud-Claude- Lafontaine

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 87 - 89

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.009.19880

The article discusses Histoire, Forme et Sens en littérature. La Belgique francophone. Tome 3 – L’ Évitement (1945–1970) by Marc Quaghebeur. The book is the third volume of the ambitious work led by the researcher for some years. It sheds light on the complexity of a period simply described as “centripetal”, but in reality containing the seeds of the changes brought later by the Belgitude. The author’s wide-ranging work also enables us to rethink the relationship between history, society, writers and literature, based on the history of a culturally dominated people, which places this work at the heart of current thinking.

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O rețea a poeticilor feminine. Grațiela Benga, Vocile Penelopei: tonuri și accente în poezia contemporană românească

Ana-Maria Pușcașu

Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 1, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 95 - 100

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.010.19881

The present article proposes an analysis of Grațiela Benga’s volume, Penelope’s Voices: Tones and Accents in Contemporary Romanian Poetry, the first critical approach to contemporary (and ultracontemporary) poetry written by women in the Romanian literary space. The volume builds a muchneeded female network of poetic voices, through which Grațiela Benga aims to explore and revalue the poetry of contemporary authors while highlighting the heterogeneity and complexity of female poetic voices.

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Słowa kluczowe: Republic of Moldova, Romanian language, Moldovan language, Izvestia, Russian Federation, Al Berto, postmodernism, Bible, illness discourses, Portuguese poetry, apocalypse, madness, consumer society, francophone theatre, Visniec, Beckett, Itzhak Katzenelson, Dos lid fun oysgehargetn yidishn folk, Yiddish poetry, translation, Batia Baum, historical phraseology, formula, medieval Castilian literature, Libro de Buen Amor, identity, immigration, Poles, Misiones, Argentina, lexicalization, verbal periphrasis, grammaticalization, explicative expression, Charles Perrault, Contes de ma mère l’Oye, Histoires du temps passé, Contes de Perrault, fairy tales, rewriting, literary history, 20th century Belgian literature, Francophone literature, postmodernity, Romanian literature, contemporary poetry, women’s writing, feminine poetics

Funding information

The publication of this volume was financed by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University.