Romanica Olomucensia, 2017 (vol. 29), issue 2

Linguistics and Translation

Evolução do pretérito anteriorna língua portuguesa

Evolution of the past anterior in the Portuguese language

Jan Hricsina

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):149-160 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.011

The aim of this article is to analyze the frequency and use of the past anterior ('pretérito anterior') in the evolution of the Portuguese language. The author studies the occurrence of this tense in various types of sentences (syntactic aspect) and various temporal meanings that it expresses (semantic aspect). The analysis is performed via the diachronic linguistic corpus www.corpusdoportugues.org.

Le contact des langues slaves et du français: vers une typologie adaptée de l’interférence

The contact of Slavic languages and French: towards an adapted typology of interference

Lucia Ráčková

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):161-176 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.012

The paper deals with grammatical interference in the formation of the passive voice in French by Slavic native speakers. In Slavic languages, which are mostly of a flexive type, the passive voice holds a particular position. The specificity of its use lies in the lower frequency of the passive in comparison with the active voice, as well as in a different degree of variability of passive structures. How can these specificities lead to negative transfer in the utterances of Slavic native speakers in French? The study is a contribution to the verification of the hypothesis on the correlation between the typology of languages in contact and the typology...

Literature and Culture

La Négritude dervainienne : l’écriture de la négation de soi et l’écriture de l’autre

Dervain's Negritude: the writing of the negation of selfand the writing of the other

Adou Bouatenin

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):177-186 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.013

Émile Eugène André Dervain is little known to the general public. This Ivorian author considers himself a negritudian. Indeed, he reclaims the Negritude of the founding fathers to adapt it to his personal life. In addition, he identifies himself to the world in a movement of sympathy which allows him to die as himself and be reborn as someone else. What does this claim to identity consist of within his poetic texts? In the light of psychocriticism, it is shown that by denying himself, Dervain builds an identity which seems to be his true identity, because the colour of his skin is a colour that has been borrowed Through this metaphor, the personal...

Adán Buenosayres: el Ulises argentino

Adán Buenosayres: an Argentinian Ulysses

Ana Davis González

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):187-202 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.014

The first part of the study offers various perspectives on the connection between Marechal's novel Adan Buenosayres (1948) and Joyce's Ulysses (1922). The difference between those who consider it plagiarism and those who see an emulation of Ulysses in Adam shows how complex the comparison of texts can be. The second part of the research offers, in a synthetic way, the most relevant theoretical issues about intertextuality and focuses on the readings of Joyce's novel that Marechal carried out. The work closes by revealing formal aspects and content that both works share, which have not yet been developed in detail. The final...

Les traductions tchèques du Bateau Ivre de Jean-Arthur Rimbaud après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

Czech translations of Jean-Arthur Rimbaud's poem the Drunken Boat after the Second World War

Kateřina Drsková

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):203-222 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.015

This article focuses first on the history of the Czech reception of the work of Jean-Arthur Rimbaud and on the modifications of its interpretation, from the earliest mention concerning Rimbaud to its present perception. Then, in this context, three Czech translations of the poem The Drunken Boat are analyzed, dating from the post-World War II period: those by František Hrubín (1956, 1961), Otto F. Babler (1981), and Gustav Francl (2008).

Prière litanique - litanie poétique. Les paraphrases françaises jusqu'au xixe siècle

Litanic prayer - poetic litany: French paraphrases till the nineteenth century

Magdalena Kowalska

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):223-234 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.016

The paper analyses five examples of French litanic paraphrases from different periods: the medieval paraphrase La letanie from the Book of Hours of the Diocese of Evreux and the farce Le pèlerinage de marriage, Paraphrase des Litanies de la Vierge Marie of Martial de Brives (1653), Litanies de la Sainte Vierge, ou de Lorette. Traduites en vers français, et paraphrasées en forme d'ode sacrée (1837) of Marie-Louis-Auguste Demartin du Tyrac Marcellus and Les Litanies de Satan of Charles Baudelaire. The paper aims to explore the most common methods used to transfigure the liturgical form into a literary work, amongst others:...

L'image du tyran et du vaincu dans le théâtre d'Antoine de Montchrestien

The image of the tyrant and the vanquished in the theatre of Antoine de Montchrestien

Dora Leontaridou

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):235-244 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.017

The plots of the three Montchrestien tragedies - La Carthaginoise ou la liberté, Les Lacènes, and La Reine d'Ecosse - follow the same pattern: the confrontation of a cruel and tyrannical king with the vanquished. Moreover, in all three tragedies the defeated are women, who show remarkable moral qualities and a heroic attitude towards their destiny. On the other hand, the kings are presented as atrocious and cruel. Conceived after the first period of the religious wars, the tragedies dispute monarchical power.

Les écrivains français face au langageantisémite sous l'occupation : Édith Thomas, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writers in the face of anti-semitic language under nazioccupation: Édith Thomas, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Atinati Mamatsashvili

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):245-258 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.018

According to Victor Klemperer, Nazi language often used borrowed words but the danger lies in the transformation they undergo once they are transferred into "general language". This study aims to focus on the anti-Semitic language adopted and manipulated by the Vichy regime to reveal the extent to which the new language is offered as a "new way" of thinking (Klemperer). To do this, we refer to the works of writers who particularly stressed the threat of the simultaneous alteration of language and thought in the grip of authoritarian and anti-Semitic regimes. It is dealt with here through a focus on Pilote de guerre (1942) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry...

Antidialogismo en «Victorio Ferri cuenta un cuento», un relato de iniciación de Sergio Pitol

Antidialogism in "Victorio Ferri tells a story", an initiation story by Sergio Pitol

Riccardo Pace

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):259-270 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.019

This paper is dedicated to the study of "Victorio Ferri tells a story", one of the initiation stories of the Mexican writer Sergio Pitol. From the reflections of some critics who consider the narrative youth of Pitol as a phase of initiation where the aesthetic challenges that will flourish in the future output of the author are generated, in this paper a further element of continuity will be traced, identified with the interest that throughout his career, Pitol's prose has shown in what Bakhtin calls plurilingualism and dialogism. A re-reading of the narrative from Bakhtin's approach will make it possible to underline that, unlike what happens with...

La alianza eterna de dos mundos en William Ospina

The eternal alliance of two worlds in William Ospina

Yadira Segura Acevedo

Romanica Olomucensia 2017, 29(2):271-286 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2017.020

The Amazon Trilogy, by the Colombian writer William Ospina, reconstructs one of the most amazing historical events in the history of humanity, the discovery of America. The author recreates the life of an emblematic character, though one forgotten by historians and chroniclers, in the colonization of America - the conquistador Pedro de Ursúa. The topic of the conquest of America is projected in a transversal way throughout his writings. For this reason, when speaking about the eternal alliance of two worlds, it was necessary to study the creative and critical work of this writer on the basis of the theoretical ideas of important researchers such as...