The Book and Beyond

Mislite li da možemo naučiti živjeti tako da napustimo ideju o svijetu nakon smrti, o nepovredivosti majčinstva, svetosti spolnosti, zatrovanost nacionalizmom, žeđ za beskonačnom slobodom i poštovanje industrije u zamjenu za ograničenje rađanja sa svrhom očuvanja ljudske vrste pri čemu bi se seks upražnjavao za zabavu, a sve to podrazumijevalo bi postojanje svjetske vlade, kontroliranu ekologiju i obrazovanje iz zabave?I da sve to moramo učiniti prije isteka dvadesetog stoljeća?Pa, baš i ne moramo. Samo, ukoliko to ne učinimo, naša će civilizacija biti uništena za trideset godina. I to je sve.Između ostalog, po zanimanju sam prorok. To jest, predskazujem budućnost i plaćen sam za to.Naravno, postoji tu i jedna kvaka. Nisam varalica, stoga je moja korisnost i više nego upitna. Kako ne prelazim rukom preko kristalne kugle, ne pružam usluge pratitelja kroz svijet duhova, nemam dara za otkrivenja i potpuno sam lišen mistične intuicije, nikome ne mogu reći koji će konj pobijediti na utrci, ...

“America is now wholly given over to a d – d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied by their trash…” (Hawthorne 304). However Nathaniel Hawthorne chose to voice his frustration with the American female writer, she did play a significant social role in nineteenth-century American cultural history. Formally removed from the political discourse of their generation, women activists turned to other means for disseminating opinions and disapproval. The rising genre of the novel was one of the most effective and visible forms available to American women. Viewed as an historical artifact, the novel was steeped in social convention and cultural ideology. Therefore, when women turned to it to voice opposition to Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, they did so by embracing the traditionally-accepted methodology of the novel, but altering it through subversive language and plots to suit their critical needs. The goal of this paper is to ...

This article examines authorship as a socially embedded process by challenging Western notions of the autonomous creative genius. It considers social interactions between various agents in the field of literary production which in turn recovers the collective nature of modern authorship. Far from leaving it unexamined, it further contextualises authorial collectivity and its role in the emerging model of authorship. Questions and arguments raised in this article are informed by the ethnographic data collected during my doctoral research focusing on the reception of post-1990s ex-Yugoslav literature on the UK book market. Such ethnographic approach to literary translations – i.e. the micro-level analysis of social interactions that ‘create’ literature – demonstrated how the author is ‘created’ in the communication of two literary systems through linguistic translation as well as re-translations of symbolic and social capitals. My research was concerned with analysing the ‘backstage’ of ...

U članku se analizira uloga knjige u pet ključnih ruskih distopija u dvadesetom stoljeću (Mi, Čevengur, Iskop, Plavo salo i Kis). U svakoj od ovih distopija knjiga/umjetnički tekst (kako se knjiga shvaća u ovom članku) ima jednu od ključnih uloga – posebno u dvije recentne distopije (Plavo salo i Kis). Knjiga se u ruskim distopijama promatra kao jedno od temeljnih obilježja čovjeka i sve promjene čovjeka kao individue ili društvenog bića reflektiraju se na knjigu ili pak knjigom bivaju potaknute.Možda je čudno ili možda tek loš stil započeti članak s dvije digresije. Ali, kao prvo i sasvim neznanstveno, ne mogu se oteti potrebi započeti ovaj članak razmišljanjem o upotrebi i ulozi misala u obredu katoličke svete mise. Slabo pamtim pa me zanimaju načini kojima se ljudi bore protiv zaborava, a posebno su mi zanimljivi (zavidim im) ljudi koji dobro pamte. Nisam osobit vjernik, ali onda kad odem na misu, uvijek me čudi (da, čak i zaboravljivu mene) zašto svećenik koji je održao tisuće misa...

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In fine-tuning Turusbek Madilbay’s rough dictionary translation (a ‘trot’) I became convinced that a good match between writers and editors or translators is essential. I imagine it’s tempting for a writer to throw up her hands, to abdicate responsibility and let the publishing houses use their stock translators, but I recommend that creative writers learn about the process of translation in order to find the best partner for putting their work into another language. The responsibility must never rest solely with the translator, who is always working with limited information and within temporal and fiscal constraints. It’s always, to some degree, piecework. I hope it’s not a breach of publishing protocol to read reviews of work by, and to solicit samples from, several literary translators, and then choose among them. A beginner will do the job more cheaply, but will the skill be there? Do not leave the job to chance. My spotty linguistic background was well-suited to working with a tro...