After experimenting the serial variations of micro-stories with Centuria, Manganelli moved away from the short-form option shared with authors such as Calvino, Parise, Wilcock and Malerba to ...undertake with Tutti gli errori (1986), his last collection of short stories, a reflection on literary genres and narrative conventions that is confirmed in the theoretical pages of the essay Che cosa non è un racconto, from the book Il rumore sottile della prosa (1994). The article proceeds to an analysis of the transformations that the structure of the impossible or erroneous tale inflicts on classic motifs of Manganelli’s imagery such as the infernal journey, asymmetrical love, the haunted mansion, and the descendent nature of man.
Neben einer beträchtlichen Zahl an umfangreichen Romanen veröffentlichte der namhafte, mehrfach ausgezeichnete Schweizer Schriftsteller Adolf Muschg (1934) auch einige Bände mit Kurzprosa, welche, ...ebenso wie seine Romane und Erzählungen, sein reiches literarisches und psychologisches Wissen, seine wuchernde Phantasie und sprachliche Sensibilität bezeugen. Wenn die Kritiker anlässlich der sprachlichen und kompositorischen Brillanz seiner ersten Romane fast schon von einem L’art pour l’art sprachen, so bewies er mit seiner Kurzprosa, dass er ebenso meisterhaft die Komprimierung, den disziplinierten und zurückhaltenden Stil sowie eine klare Diktion beherrscht. Der Beitrag versucht zu zeigen, wie Muschg in seiner Kurzprosa, die mehrfach autobiographische Züge aufweist, viele Stile und Sprachen nicht nur geschickt imitiert, sondern oft auch karikiert und dem Leser somit in den Geschichten, die keinesfalls nur privat sind, viel Freiraum lässt.
This article undertakes a comparative analysis of Péter Hajnóczy's short stories "The Heater" (1975) and "The Blood Donor" (1977), examining them through thematic, stylistic, and narrative lenses. ...The intention is to explore potential complementarity between these two texts, revealing shared themes. Both narratives unfold as profane depictions of suffering, tracing the stages of the protagonist's disintegration and incorporating elements of the fantastic. "The Heater" can be interpreted as a paraphrase of the Kohlhaas motif, which was of significant importance in post-1945 East-Central European literature. Conversely, "The Blood Donor" centers around a butcher whose body serves as an inexhaustible source of blood. The exploration of madness and insanity within these narratives prompts a psychoanalytic inquiry, raising questions about the extent to which these stories draw upon Freudian case study traditions, or alternatively, how the Freudian case descriptions themselves might be considered works of literature. While the preparatory studies for "The Heater" exist in various forms among the writer's manuscripts, the background of "The Blood Donor" remains relatively unknown.
The article deals with research of microgenres of modern short stories. In article it is shown that the genre is not only the complex of formal and substantial properties, but, first of all, it is ...the certain behavioural model determined by the society. So the change of the genre painting of the Spanish literature reflects the tendencies reigning in the Spanish society. The relevance of this research is caused by lack of works on the theory of short story genres in the newest literature of Spain. In article it is shown that the idea of disappearance of category of a genre as variable given in advance is replaced by understanding of a genre as the category found in process of writing of the literary work. These tendencies correspond to universal ones: the transformation of the genre painting in modern literary process is determined by change of the sphere of existing of texts today, caused by emergence of gadgets, change of an art paradigm, and the culture of postmodernism. The author of article brings up a question of succession of a phenomenon of super brevity that was known since an antique era. In article it is shown that the Spanish writers of the XVI century actively used antique maxims, paremias and anecdotes as the sources. Special attention is paid to process of literation of paremias of antique writers Valery Maxim and Erasmus of Rotterdam in works of the Spanish writer Juan Timoneda. The analysis of the latest prose of Spain shows that modern Spanish writers actively use the short prose that demonstrates changes of the relations between authors, the work and the reader. The genre analysis of the presented works of the latest Spanish literature shows that they represent the hybrid complex combining signs of a number of classical genres, marking a new stage of development of genres in present period.
El propósito de este artículo es presentar y analizar la prosa breve de Gamaliel Churata (1897-1969). Después de una indagación en revistas y periódicos de Perú y Bolivia publicados en las primeras ...décadas del siglo XX se reunió veintiocho prosas breves. Consideramos que mediante esta investigación contribuimos con el conocimiento de la obra de Churata, ya que antes reunimos su obra poética dispersa en publicaciones periódicas. A estos rescates se suman la obra inédita que se está divulgando tanto en prosa como en poesía, lo que reconstruye la obra de un pensador continental.
Based on the material of short prose by I. S. Turgenev (“The Dream”, “The Song of Triumphant Love”, “Klara Milich”) and V. O. Pelevin (“Go to Sleep”, “The Blue Lantern”, “The Contemplator of the ...Shadow”), the article deals with the problem of transformation of conception and the ways of implementation of dream states. It also analyzes the change in the function of sleep and dreams in classical and post-classical literature. In classical literature, oneiric text is defined as a verbal presentation of a dream of a character or the author in a work of fiction. In mystery short stories and novellas by Turgenev, we are dealing with the verbal recreation of sleep as a borderline state of the character, as an experience of a different kind of existence, and as a way of immersion in the irrational region of the human psyche. Turgenev’s oneiropoetics and science fiction are aimed at discovering the unknown in the human psyche and are associated with the eternal problems of love and death, search for the truth, and the achievement of integrity of the artistic-philosophical world. In the postmodern era, dreams become one of the most common ways of text constructing and serve to convey the idea of total virtualization of reality. The modern author does not set the task to describe dreams; they create a text according to the logic of the dream. Meanwhile, the same eternal questions as in classical literature are subject to artistic reflection in Pelevin’s stories: the truth and lies, the good and the evil, the search for the meaning of life, freedom, and belief in God. The dialogue between the postmodern writer and the classic is based on the idea of inseparability of the sensuous and the supersensuous, the contradictions between which can be removed in an act of artistic study of the secrets of the human psyche. The writer of the epoch-making era speaks with contemporaries about the human consciousness that has fallen into the trap, because there are no practical methods for “lifting the shackles of the mind”, but the chances for transcendence and self-realization in consciousness-created worlds still remain. Pelevin’s dreams often become a manifestation of esoteric consciousness and mystical revelation.
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the expression of architectural components in short prose. The starting point of temporal expressions in the fiction of small forms is the physical ...and mathematical understanding of time at different historical stages of development of scientific knowledge about time. The purpose of the proposed article is to demonstrate in a comparative way the concept, chronotope and archetype of time in short prose of E. Kononenko, J. Joyce, M. Kidruk, K. Franzos in comparison with the physical and mathematical understanding of time, the paradigm of views on this concept in various historical and cultural milestones and their extrapolation in the literature of the respective periods. The novelty of the article is that for the first time chronotopic concepts in short prose of the metagenre of alternative history are considered here. Research methods are a set of comparative, descriptive, historical and literary approaches. Conclusions. We can argue the role of time as a concept, chronotope and archetype in stories by V. Kozhelyanko, J. Joyce, M. Kidruk, E. Kononenko, which are manifested at different structural levels of the text. The “past-presentpresent” relationship plays a genre-creating role, forms a literary chronotope, acts as a bearer of the code of a short story or narrative, and preserves the architectural structure of the work as clear and independent of reception and interpretation. In the short prose of AH, mainly, as we see in these examples, time performs the same functions as in works of major prose genres, however, its characteristics change: the time of the short story is often relict, “thick”, such that it has no duration. Often the chronotope of a short story replaces a moment in time. The chronotope and its plot counterpart ‒ the event series ‒ are observed by the reader in the form of an exhibit, a non-dynamic construction, different from the time in which the reader's reception takes place.
In this article, I will analyse Fotoplastikon (2009) by Jacek Dehnel, a collection of a hundred old photographs accompanied by the same amount of poetic proses. The working principle of the book ...follows that of stereoscopy and bases itself upon the illusion of depth originating from the parallel reading of the images and texts placed next to them. The work, which resembles an old photo album, becomes a multimedia tool capable of creating a third dimension in spite of its flat surface. The result is a dialectic game the reader is asked to take part in starting from the subjective experience of the author. This article aims to describe the different strategies by which Dehnel, starting from Barthes’ concept of punctum, leads the reader to formulate his/her own interpretation, which is often distant from the monoreferentiality of the image. Moreover, I took into consideration the idea of supplying the article with some excerpts of the work translated into Italian.
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