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The article examines the reception of Giorgio Bassani's works in Slovenia. The current state of translations of Bassani's works into Slovene is characteristic of the availability of Slovene editions of Italian authors, which often seems desultory despite the relatively high number of literary translations from Italian published after World War II. In the past, the translations were typically published later than the original texts and without a global strategy. This situation partly persists to the present day: whilst the translations of some authors are sufficiently present, others continue to be absent, which is probably due to the limitations of the Slovene book market. As few as three of Bassani's texts have been translated into Slovene, namely the novel Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1978), translated by Stabej, excerpts from the short story Una lapide in via Mazzini (1994), translated by Ožbot, and a selection of poems from In rima e senza (2008), translated by Dekleva. Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, the only text to have been translated in an unabridged version, was also the subject of linguistic research by Miklič and Premrl. Whilst no doubt interesting for specialists, the results of their research most likely did not reach a wider public. Even though the translation of Bassani's novel was followed by the release of the film adaptation, whilst the poetry collection received critical acclaim, Bassani remains a relatively little-known author in Slovenia to this day. Moreover, as many as thirteen years have passed since the publication of the last translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Alberto Fortis (1741-1803), a prominent representative of the Italian Enlightenment, made several journeys to the Kvarner Gulf and Dalmatia. His Travels into Dalmatia made him famous in Europe and kindled an interest in this relatively unknown area. Besides travelling extensively to the Adriatic coastal regions, Fortis travelled from Trieste to Ljubljana across the Karst and recounted his journey in The Oryctographic Letter. Despite being one of his minor works, the letter is an important indication of the author's interest in Carniola, especially its Karst phenomena, and of his contacts with Balthasar Hacquet, a naturalist active in Carniola. Fortis' books were present in the extensive library belonging to Žiga Zois, a leading promoter of science in that period, and were probably available to his intellectual circle. Whilst Fortis' contacts with intellectuals living in Carniola are far from reaching the extent of his connections with Dalmatia, his exchanges with Hacquet, as well as the presence of his books indicate the existence of contacts between the Carniolan intellectual milieux and the Italian Enlightenment. On the basis of critical studies and printed sources consisting mostly of texts published by Fortis, the article highlights certain aspects of Fortis' travels and explorations as well as his contacts with representatives of the Carniolan Enlightenment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

This paper aims to show that the place of enunciation influences the production of utterances about the discursive construction of events happening in another society. We take the example of two Belgian writers, Simon Leys and Charles Paron, who lived in Hong Kong and Beijing respectively during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The places where they lived induced original analyses and isolated them from their social fields, even beyond their ideological positions. We first study their relationship with both the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the discursive productions about it in Europe, and what drove them to write in forms that were unusual to them. We then analyze the conditions of construction of the representations of the revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

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