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Esperanto-blogo, kelkfoje blago, de Ralph Dumain
Ĉu la angla venkos la mondon; ĉu aliaj lingvoj malaperos aŭ konserviĝos nur en muzeoj? Nu, judoj respondecas pri Babelo. Unu solvonto de la lingvo-problemo estis Zamenhof, kies judeco estis nepra motivo al kreado de Esperanto. Esperanto similas socie al la jida. Laŭ amiko de la aŭtoro, Esperanto estas la jida de la gojoj.
Do jen eta resumo de Esperanto kaj Zamenhof en jida usona ĵurnalo (kun anglalingva eldono, sed ĉi tiu artikolo ne havas anglan version) ankoraŭ eldonata:
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 12:25 AM 0 komentoj
Boxer, Beetle has been blurbed as hilarious. I would call it satirical in the extreme, but I haven't been laughing.
There are no redeeming characters in the book. Not only are the fascists obnoxious and stupid, but their would-be victims, the underclass East Ender Jews of London, are primitive and crude. Seth "Sinner" Roach is the crudest of them: a malformed boxer who lives to fight, who hates Jew-haters but has no political perspective, only selfish interest. His bizarre symbiosis with the anti-Semitic fascist entomologist and amateur eugenicist Philip Erskine and their mutual fate is the focal point of the mystery Kevin Broom is trying to solve under extreme duress in the present. As the narrative toggles between tracking down vanished persons and the obscure events of 1936, we descend further and further into the pit.
Erskine not only names a beetle he has bred after Hitler, he receives an effusive letter from Hitler. Sinner becomes a mercenary in a brewing battle in the East End as Mosley's fascists storm the area to confront the Jews, who are poised for battle.
Well, Broom and his kidnapper (and the latter's mysterious boss) finally solve the mystery of the boxer and the beetles, as do we in a flashback to October 1936. Both halves of the story conclude with no justice meted out to the bad guys, no good guys to win or lose, no redemption and no moral. This satiric portrait of degradation and fascism is a brilliantly written tour de force, well worth reading, but don't expect any wisdom to be gotten from it.
What this young man is about I do not know, or if this novel bespeaks a trend in Jewish fiction, but you can learn more about the author and his work at Ned Bauman's web site, which also links to his blog "Oh my god look at its little face!". Bauman, born in 1985, studied philosophy in Cambridge. Make of that what you will. There is also a bibliography for this novel. The references for artificial languages are:
The Artificial Language Movement by Andrew Large (1985)
Esperanto: Language, Literature and Community by Pierre Janton, ed. Humphrey Tonkin (1993)
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 5:38 PM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: 1936, Esperanto-movado, faŝismo, fikcio, Ido, interlingvistiko, judoj, naziismo, Ned Bauman, rasismo, romanoj, Solresol, sporto, Theodor W. Adorno, ukronio, Volapuk, Zamenhof
In the present (Chapter 12 of Boxer, Beetle) the narrator is kidnapped to Claramore, where the key to the quest is thought to be: an incident suspected to have taken place at a fascist conference in 1936.
Then we are back in 1936, at Claramore, the bizarre estate of the Erskine family. William Erskine, inheritor of the estate, rigged it up with high-tech (for 1936) inventions and gizmos in accordance with his vision of the technological future.
Sinner (Seth Roach) and Philip Erskine arrive for the upcoming conference. Pangaean gets mentioned a few more times (145, 149, 163). Philip's father William reads the son's manuscript and decides to have it bound. Later on as the drama at the household reaches a macabre climax, Erskine--which Erskine I'm not certain--has a morbid fantasy involving the third Pangaean Grammar and Lexicon.
It also bears mentioning that Evelyn, Philip's sister, is an aficionado and composer of atonal music, which she ends up attempting to justify to Sinner (171). I mention this noting that one of the prefatory quotes to the novel comes from Adorno on dissonance.
Chapter 13 (August 1936) teaches us that the entire family and the assembled fascist guests all belong in a looney bin. It's a bizarro Addams Family world, only truly morbid. And each fascist we encounter is crazier than the next; each insists on the peculiarities of his own cobbled together world view, such that none can agree and all end up bickering.
Chapter 14 begins with footman Alex Goodman obsessed with two goals: marrying Evelyn's maid, and securing a "top-class conjugal safety coffin." But that's normal compared to what transpires by the end of Chapter 15, as the insanity at Claramore reaches a climax, in more ways than one.
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 10:09 PM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Esperanto-movado, faŝismo, fikcio, Ido, interlingvistiko, judoj, naziismo, Ned Bauman, rasismo, romanoj, Solresol, sporto, Theodor W. Adorno, ukronio, Volapuk, Zamenhof
In the past two days I have read 11 chapters (133 pages) of Ned Beauman's novel Boxer, Beetle. It's a real page-turner, compelling reading, superbly written, and highly absurdist.
Chapter 10 (Autumn 1881), on which I reported in my previous post on this book, is actually a historical digression from the main two plots. incorporates the real history of artificial languages into the fiction. Erasmus Erskine appears to be the grandfather of Philip Erskine, entomologist, eugenicist, Nazi sympathizer. His main occupation is finding and breeding beetles, until he secures the cooperation of gay, nine-toed Jewish Boxer Seth "Sinner" Roach to serve as a guinea pig for a eugenics experiment. This scenario takes place in Britain in the 1930s.
The other main plot takes place in the present, in which Kevin Broom, a collector of Nazi memorabilia, is sucked into a nefarious intrigue involving the sordid past just described.
At the end of chapter 9, Philip Erskine is forced by his father to leave beetles and boxers be for a time in order to complete another project:
"It was time to write the history of Pangaean--the Erskine dynasty's greatest pride, and greatest embarrassment."
So the chapter on artificial languages, though seemingly out of place, is a historical flashback from the 1930s, and pits not only artificial languages against one another, but anti-Semite against Jew.  Erasmus Erskine, creator of Pangaean, wants to abolish adverbs as well as Jews. In 1881, "on the same day that the Jews were driven out of Fluek, the adverbs were driven out of the English language." Meanwhile, far away in Poland, Seth Roach's grandparents prepare to fight off a pogrom.
Erskine, bigoted and obsessed, makes Pangaean so complicated and difficult, that even he can't master his language.
"He was even forced to consider putting the adverbs back in, but concluded that he had left himself no room for them, on the same day in June 1882 that Sinner's grandfather returned with his wife and daughters to Fluek, where they were told by local officials that, according to Alexander III's new Temporary Regulations, no Jews were allowed to settle in the countryside of Russian Poland."
So they left Fluek and ended up in Bialystok (in real life, the birthplace of Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto), where Sinner's father "was born on the same day that Erskine completed the 998-page first draft of the Pangaean Grammar and Lexicon."
Pangaean, of course, never existed, but the real history of the international language movement, with some historical distortions, serves as the backdrop for the unhappy fate of Pangaean. Erskine opposes Esperanto as a Jewish language, as did Hitler later on, but as fate would have it, Hitler ends up banning Pangaean as well as Esperanto.
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 4:03 PM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Esperanto-movado, faŝismo, fikcio, Ido, interlingvistiko, judoj, naziismo, Ned Bauman, rasismo, romanoj, Solresol, sporto, Theodor W. Adorno, ukronio, Volapuk, Zamenhof
Plenaj bildrakontoj en Esperanto
Jen interesa retejo. Troveblas nun la jenaj bildrakontoj:
La Milito de la Mondoj de H. G. Wells (kaj ne maltrafu la duan parton)
La Triton-murdoj de István Nemere (kaj ne maltrafu la duan parton)
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Rubrikoj: fikcio, H. G. Wells, István Nemere, komiksoj, sciencfikcio
Lukács & tragedy / tragedio (2)
I still need a translation from Lukacs' 1955 Hungarian essay on Imre Madach's The Tragedy of Man.
I succeeded in getting someone to translate from German an extract on Hungarian drama from an early work by Lukács. The German and the English are now on my web site:
On Hungarian Dramatic Literature
I also digitized the choicest philosophical passages from a famous 1910 essay in Soul and Form:
The Metaphysics of Tragedy: Excerpts by Georg Lukács
Though this is not related to the theme of tragic drama, note again my uploaded essay by Lukács in Esperanto translation on the counterrevolutionary reaction to the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic:
Kontraŭrevoluciaj fortoj dum la hungara proletara diktaturo de György Lukács
[Counterrevolutionary Forces during the Hungarian Proletarian Dictatorship]
I cannot find this in English. There are a couple British anthologies of Lukács' political writings I have not seen. But in the familiar anthologies, nothing: Tactics and Ethics would have been the place to find this piece.
So we continue to fight the language barrier as we pursue our scholarship.
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Rubrikoj: beletro, dialektiko, estetiko, filozofio, Georg Lukács, Hungario, Imre Madách, kulturpolitiko, literaturkritiko, marksismo, socialismo, teatro, tragedio
Lukács & tragedy / tragedio (1)
The following quotation is excerpted from an excerpt from Lukács' early work on modern drama translated into English in 1968. This translation does not mention Imre Madách; the complete German text does. But here you will find background on Lukács' view of tragic drama from this period.
On the historical transition from the logical structure of traditional drama based on a presumed metaphysical/social order to the logic of individualism in modern drama:
“Artistically this all implies, in the first place, a paradox in the dramatic representation of character. For in the new drama, compared to the old, character becomes much more important and at the same time much less important. Our perspective alone determines whether we count its formal significance as everything or as nothing. Even as the philosophies of Stirner and Marx are basically drawn from the same source, Fichte, so every modern drama embodies this duality of origin, this dialectic out of the life that gives it birth. [….] Character becomes everything, since the conflict is entirely for the sake of character’s vital centre; for it alone and for nothing peripheral, because the force disposed of by this vital centre alone determines the dialectic, that is, the dramatic, quality of drama. Conversely, character becomes nothing, since the conflict is merely around and about the vital centre, solely for the principle of individuality. Since the great question becomes one of to what degree the individual will finds community possible, the direction of the will, its strength, and other specifics which might render it individual, in fact, must remain unconsidered. Thus—and the essence of the stylistic problem is here—character is led back to more rational causes than ever before, and becomes at the same time ever more hopelessly irrational.” [p. 435]
SOURCE: Lukács, Georg. “The Sociology of Modern Drama” [1909/1911? - excerpt from Entwicklungsgeschichte des modernen Dramas], translated by Lee Baxandall (1965), in The Theory of the Modern Stage, edited by Eric Bentley (London: Penguin Books, 1968), pp. 425-450.
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Rubrikoj: beletro, dialektiko, estetiko, filozofio, Georg Lukács, Hungario, Imre Madách, individuismo, kulturpolitiko, literaturkritiko, marksismo, teatro, tragedio
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