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Edice textů přináší komentovaný výbor z reportážních a cestopisných publikací čtyř literátů z Československa, které reflektují jejich zkušenost z cest a pobytů v „exotických“, mimoevropských oblastech Sovětského svazu v období mezi dvěma světovými válkami. Jedná se o novináře, literárního kritika a publicistu Julia Fučíka (1903–1943), pražského německého novináře, reportéra a spisovatele Egona Erwina...
The clash of traditional Arab society with the modernity in a form of colonization served as a source of tremendous confusion. The novel Voices (1972) by Egyptian writer Sulayman Fayyad is the first Arab novel which approaches the topic of the interaction between “Us” and “The Others” in a completely different way. The Voices are unprecedented metaphor of the relationship between “Us” and “The Others”...
Is it possible to read Don Quijote de la Mancha as a work representing modernity, and if so, in which sense? So sounds the question that this essay tries to answer. On the one hand, Close has warned about the problems of the romantic reading of Don Quijote, like, for instance, to assert that the book symbolizes Spain or an epoch. But, on the other hand, Cervantesʼ major work is in contact, through...
The article deals with the fantastic short-story as it appears in Brazilian Regionalism, attempting at an explanation of this little studied phenomenon. It argues that the Regional fantastic, a mode in-between the uncanny and the marvelous, may correspond to an ambiguous feeling of an intellectual torn between an imposed urban modernity and the archaic mind of most of the country.
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