Écho des études romanes, 2015 (vol. 11), issue 2

À propos de la préposition « chez » en français actuelFrench

On the preposition "chez" in contemporary French

Iva DEDKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):5-21 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.013  

The paper is devoted to the French preposition "chez". After having presented its main morphosyntactic features, the text deals with the various uses of the preposition in contemporary French, including the Adj de chez Adj construction. The sample phrases which illustrate the concerned issue are extracted exclusively from daily national press (Le Figaro). The questionnaire research regarding the use of the preposition chez by native speakers was conducted in France, in March 2015.

Équivalents tchèques des constructions causatives françaises faire + infinitif : le domaine des causatifs synthétiquesFrench

Czech equivalents of French causative constructions faire + infinitive: the domain of synthetic causatives

Alena PETŘÍKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):23-43 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.014  

The aim of this article is to survey expressions that contain a causative meaning in Czech. It emerged that the most efficient method lies in parallel research in corpus InterCorp that makes it possible to proceed from the French causative construction faire + infinitive, an exemplary causative, which is universal and frequent enough to reveal heterogeneous causative contexts. Additionally, there is an attempt to clarify and classify corresponding Czech equivalents. Except for some non-causative expressions, this procedure successfully resulted in four causative types, namely the morphological, synthetic, analytical and sentential causatives. Their...

Il congiuntivo nell’italiano scritto e parlatoItalian

Subjunctive in written and spoken Italian

Eva KLÍMOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):45-55 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.015  

The article deals with the usage of the subjunctive in contemporary Italian against the background of the grammatical rules that determine its usage in standard Italian. The subjunctive is a phenomenon widely discussed and sometimes viewed as dying in spoken Italian because of difficulties that even Italian users meet when learning its forms. Still the usage of the subjunctive permits the speaker to express small differences in modal meanings within both deontic and epistemic modality. At the same time, it is considerate as a perfect and elegant stylistic means that allows the speaker to express different attitudes in regards to what he or she is saying....

Renart, personnage des frontièresFrench

Renart, a frontier character

Yao Lambert KONAN

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):57-69 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.016  

This study focuses on Reynard, the major character of all aspects of Reynard romance as an elusive and unstable hero, on the edge and always ready to lead astray its enemies as well as the members of the audience or readers. Accepting a changing and rippling identity, fluctuating between cunningness and satanism. This character is at the same time changeability and boundary (combines animal and human traces) and it symbolizes the human struggle between the Good and the Evil.

La visión infinita en El Aleph de Jorge Luis Borges y en De visione dei de Nicolás De CusaSpanish

Infinite vision in Jorge Luis Borges' El Aleph and Nicolas De Cusa's De visione dei

Maja ŠABEC

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):71-82 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.017  

Jorge Luis Borges integrated in his work a large amount of metaphysical challenges, especially his obsession with the concept of infinity which is present in almost all of his texts in the form of bookshelves, deserts, branched roads etc. Infinity is, for this Argentinian writer, a dimension which dissolves the reality or which it transforms into another reality, one of neverending multiplications, reflexions, dreams and illusions. In his emblematic short story El Aleph, the thoughts concerning infinity concentrate on the possibility of a human to achieve a complete understanding of the inconceivable universe; thus this understanding is represented...

« Destruction de la langue » dans la première œuvre Dada : des impertinences lexicales à la théâtralitéFrench

"Destruction of language" in the first Dada opus: from lexical impertinences towards theatrality

Mariana KUNEŠOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):83-96 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.018  

The paper deals with the issue of signification in Dada creation which is well known for its goal of « abolition of logic », and its literary consequence: structures not respecting the speech acts to the point that they seem to destroy the very possibility of presence of acceptable significations. The author of the paper, suggesting to name these rebel structures « motivation attacks », starts her research from the famous interpretation of Dada activity by Jacques Rivière : « It is impossible for a man to say something that has no meaning » (La Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920), and puts out these main...

Sur les traces de la première traduction tchèque de Zone de Guillaume ApollinaireFrench

In the footsteps of the first Czech translation of Zone by Guillaume Apollinaire

Kateřina DRSKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):97-115 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.019  

The paper is dedicated to the first Czech translations of Apollinaire's poem Zone, the circumstances of their creation and response in the Czech environment. It compares the first version of Čapek's translation from 1919 with a revised version publishedin 1936 and follows the scope and nature of the changes that were made by the translator. It also analyzes Čapek's translation published in 1929 by Miloš Hlávka, and adjustments that Hlávka spontaneously performed in Čapek's version.

A poesia de Liberto Cruz: arte e comunicaçãoPortuguese

The poetry of Liberto Cruz: art and communication

Carlos NOGUEIRA

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):117-134 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.020  

In this article we try to show how, in the work of the Portuguese writer Liberto Cruz, a compromise is established between the poem as a text free of any ideological imposition, and the poem as a social and political action; between the internal and personal experience of the author, and his commitment to the history of the country; between the self-sufficiency of the poem, and its links to the larger world; between the communication and elevation; between the work's expansion of image and semantics and the communication of feelings, emotions and ideas; and between the textual "I" and the biographical "I".

De Sébastien Roch à L’agneau chaste ou de la construction à la déconstruction de la matrice romanesque de la pédophilieFrench

From Sébastien Roch to L'agneau chaste or from constructing to deconstructing the novelistic matrix of paedophilia

Przemysław SZCZUR

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):135-146 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.021  

The aim of this article is to compare the image of paedophilia in two novels: Sébastien Roch by Octave Mirbeau and L'agneau chaste by Franck Varjac. While the first helped to construct the fictional matrix of paedophilia, the second tries to deconstruct it.

Cultura e viaggio. Vergine giurata di Elvira DonesItalian

Culture and journey. Vergine giurata by Elvira Dones

Karol KARP

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):147-157 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2015.022  

The aim of the article entitled Culture and journey. Vergine giurata by Elvira Dones is to present the role of two key motives, mentioned in the title, which appear in the work of Elvira Dones. They have a great influence on the life of the main character Hana. The culture demonstrates models which should be imitated and limits her individuality. She has to hide her female identity and to become a man, at least in the eyes of society. Leaving Albany turns out to be the only way of liberation. Hana goes to the United States to get to know herself again. The journey has two significations: the first concerns its fiscal dimension; the second is...

La durée vocalique : comparaison des systèmes vocaliques tchèque et français des points de vue phonétique et phonologiqueFrench

Vowel lenght: comparison of Czech and French vowel systems from the phonetic and phonological point of view. A pedagogically focused contrastive study

Kateřina VYCHOPŇOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):159-161  

L’écrivain fictif dans l’œuvre de Gérard BessetteFrench

Fictional writer in Gérard Bessette's fictions

Veronika ČERNÍKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):162-164  

Mireille Naturel (éd.) : Proust plurielFrench

Kateřina DRSKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):165-166  

ActualitésFrench

Écho des études romanes 2015, 11(2):167-176