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Between real and fictitious trenches: Blaise cendrars` The bloody hand
No full textThe memoir lies somewhere at the crossroads between literature and document, offering a look into a shared past, but a very subjective one for that matter, obeying the voice of one author, who cannot write without creating some form of literature. As such, it becomes a very interesting literary genre: free to play with perspectives and with the senses of the reader, borrowing literary devices from fictional works, it is still deeply anchored in real life. The current article focuses on Blaise Cendrars’ experience on the battlefields of the First World War as depicted in his memoir The Bloody Hand. First a writer, then a soldier, Blaise Cendrars could not escape the artist’s natural instinct to turn
his life into art, inviting the reader into his chaotic, fragmented, dirty, nostalgic, cruel, at times unbelievable experiences in the trenches. In order to better understand this intricate process of reviving memories and turning that very process into literature, the article proposes a look at the writer’s use of literary devices - humour, surrealist elements, irony, metaphor or foreshadowing - to recreate an authentic, yet highly aestheticised war narrative
Exiles, refugees, and cultural catalysts. German intellectuals of Jewish origin and their contribution to the institutional set up of Republican Turkey (1933-1950)
No full textThis article focuses on a lesser-known episode in the history of Jews in Europe, as well as in the history of the Holocaust. In 1933, as the Nazis coming to power in Germany began to show signs of threat towards the Jewish community in Europe, in the East, the young Republic of Turkey, wanting to reform its outdated structures inherited from the Ottoman Empire and to rally to the Western values, decided to receive in its newly established universities a considerable number of German intellectuals, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who were eliminated by the Nazis from the German institutions of education. Having the opportunity to continue their work of research in a safe haven, these scholars contributed, in the following years, to the modernization of the Turkish higher education system. This encounter was auspicious both academically, being a step forward on the path of progress in Turkey, but also in terms of the fact that in this way, about 190 people were saved, being kept in a safe place, away from the horrors of the Holocaust