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Sam Green: The Universal Language
Sam Green presented a rough cut of this documentary at the Zamenhof Symposium at the UN in New York on 15 December 2010, the same symposium in which I spoke on the Centennial of the Esperanto Universal Congress in Washington, DC. Since then I have blogged about the forthcoming final version.
Well, the documentary has been out for some time, and can be purchased on DVD or downloaded via the Internet. In addition, Sam has a web site devoted to the documentary, with a blog and with web posts in both English and Esperanto:
The Universal Language: A Documentary Film by Sam Green
The blog is bilingual, with English and Esperanto versions of each post, which relates to some aspect of the film or to Esperanto more generally.
I translated one of Sam's original English posts into Esperanto:
Intervjuo kun Eva Soltes pri komponisto Lou Harrison
. . . corresponding to the original:
An Interview with Eva Soltes about composer Lou Harrison
I have blogged before about Lou Harrison, in English and Esperanto. I myself first encountered Eva Soltes at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, at the presentation of a documentary film about Harrison. This was the first event in a symposium about Harrison. I reported on this event (and subsequently the others) in Esperanto:
Lou Harrison: Mondo da Muziko
In August viewers of Sam's film were invited to pose questions about it. Sam responded to the first round of questions. Before the month was out, I sent Sam some of my questions about the film. His responses to some of these are included in his second round of responses:
Respondoj al demandoj de legantoj II
Jen respondoj al kelkaj demandoj, kiujn vi sendis al ni
Questions from Viewers, Part II
The comment about archival sources and the subsequent questions are mine. Sam provides images, video, and audio in response.
Here is some footage of the noted Andreo Cseh, of Cseh-method fame, teaching Esperanto to a class outdoors:
In response to my question about a voiceover, Sam presented a speech by the noted Esperantist orator and organizer Ivo Lapenna:
"La Kultura Valoro de la Internacia Lingvo" [The Cultural Value of the International Language] de Ivo Lapenna
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Rubrikoj: Andreo Cseh, arkivoj, edukado, Esperanto-movado, Eva Soltes, filmoj, fotografoj, Ivo Lapenna, kulturpolitiko, Lou Harrison, muziko, prelegoj, Sam Green, sonregistraĵoj, Universala Kongreso, videoj, Zamenhof
133 tagoj de la Hungara Sovetrespubliko (4)
“Tavoligo kaj disigo” de Gyula Hernádi, tradukis Vilmos Benczik [14-15]
Do, krom la enkonduko de Vilmos Benczik, nun ĉiuj rilataj enhavaĵoj el ĉi tiu numero estas enretigitaj.
Cent tridek tri tagoj: historia skizo de hungarlanda proletara revolucio. Leipzig: Ekrelo, 1930. 141 p.
Mi ne posedas ekzempleron de la libro. Mi ricevis skanaĵojn de alia esperantisto, do mi dubas, ĉu mi aldonos al la eroj jam enretigitaj.
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Rubrikoj: beletro, faŝismo, Gyula Hernádi, Hungario, laborista movado, marksismo, revolucio, socialismo, Vilmos Benczik
133 tagoj de la Hungara Sovetrespubliko (3)
Mi jam blogis pri la menciita numero kaj aldonis ligojn al du enretigitaj eroj. Post tiam mi aldonis pluajn:
“Esperanto-movado dum la Konsilia Respubliko” de Zoltán Barna & Ervin Fenyvesi [10-11]
“Al fronto de Laboristhejmo” (1919) de Gyula Juhász, tradukis Márton Fejes [11]
“Brasikaĵo” de Endre Fejes, tradukis P. Rados
(Fragmento el la novelo “Pariza rememoro”) [12-13]
“Apud la fajro, en gardo ruĝa” de Béla Balázs, tradukis P. Rados [13]
Restas por enretigo: “Tavoligo kaj disigo” de Gyula Hernádi, tradukis Vilmos Benczik [14-15].
Mi blogis ankaŭ pri rimarkinda antologio eldonita en 1930:
Cent tridek tri tagoj: historia skizo de hungarlanda proletara revolucio. Leipzig: Ekrelo, 1930. 141 p.
Tiam mi estis enretiginta kvar artikolojn. Jen tri pluaj:
La Karoji-revolucio 1918‑1919. — BOLGAR A.
La agrarpolitiko de la diktaturo — MAGYAR Lajos
Soveta Hungario kaj la kamparanaro. — HEVEŜŜI
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Rubrikoj: beletro, faŝismo, Hungario, laborista movado, marksismo, revolucio, socialismo
Se fabeloj interesas vin, jen retejo kie oni kolektas Esperantajn tradukojn de fabeloj:
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First, here is the web site for the novel Boxer, Beetle.
The novel is prefaced by two quotes. The first is from Jane Jacobs, from her landmark book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The second:
"Dissonance is the truth about harmony." -- Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
I don't follow trends in fiction generally, or even in various fictional genres, but I have taken note of several contemporary Jewish novelists who have immersed their imaginations in the cultural environments that would have been familiar to their great grandparents, often incorporating real historical figures, or creating alternate histories. Michael Chabon and Joseph Skibell come immediately to mind.  I suppose then it should not be too surprising that Esperanto and its Eastern European Jewish creator L. L. Zamenhof would appear in this fiction. Ned Bauman's novel, published in 2010, can be added to this list.
Entomologists, eugenicists, Nazis, and a Jewish boxer occupy this scenario. Chapter 10 (Autumn 1881) incorporates the real history of artificial languages into the fiction. Erasmus Erskine insists that in a true philosophical language, ambiguity would be eliminated. There is speculation about an alleged archaeological finding of a legendary ancient advanced civilization and the language its inhabitants would have spoken. Sudre's musical language Solresol is mentioned as is perhaps the oldest recorded example of an artificial language, produced in the 12th century by St. Hildegard. The era of a priori constructed languages is mentioned. In the same era in which pogroms in Eastern Europe are feared on a daily basis, Erskine pursues his project, until in January 1890 Erskine completes "the 998-page first draft of the Pangaean Grammar and Lexicon." Zamenhof's native city of Bialystok is also part of the story.
Erskine's friend Thurlow continues to discourage the project, mentioning Volapuk had already achieved success and was a far superior language than Pangaean and easier to learn. (The irony!) But Erskine is more irritated that someone of his acquaintance, Marcus Amersham, is working on his own artificial language Orba, and has a club devoted to it. Amersham's publications include forms to which the reader can subscribe promising to learn the language if 10 million other people do so. This fictional item is borrowed from real life Zamenhof's initial attempt to promote Esperanto.
Esperanto then makes its appearance: "But by 1901 Pangaean, Orba and Volapuk were all being swept aside by the onrush of Esperanto." A few paraphrased quotes from Zamenhof are adduced to demonstrate Zamenhof's Jewish motivation. Erskine learns about the forthcoming Delegation for
the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language (which in real life selected the dark horse Ido, resulting in the famous Esperanto-Ido schism),  and is determined to counterpose Pangaean to the Jewish cosmopolitan Esperanto and mold his language accordingly. Erskine, apparently, is an anti-Semite and presumably a non-Jew.
The 1903 Delegation could not gain assent to its authority, and so no new language definitely triumphed. Bauman correctly describes Hitler's animosity to Esperanto and the Nazi extermination of Zamenhof's family, but adds the fictional element that Hitler bans Pangaean as well as Esperanto. To Stalin's real-life persecution of Esperantists is added Stalin's unverified anecdotal inability to learn Esperanto and purely fictional inability to learn the fictional Pangaean.
And now the final SPOILER: Erskine catches Thurlow with his wife, with a book of Orba grammar between them. Devastated, Erskine discards his notes for the third edition of the Pangaean Grammar and Lexicon.  I have deliberately kept this description as dry as possible, because the actual writing is hilarious.
And undoubtedly the balance of this award-nominated novel is equally as entertaining.
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Rubrikoj: Esperanto-movado, faŝismo, fikcio, Ido, interlingvistiko, judoj, naziismo, Ned Bauman, romanoj, Solresol, sporto, Theodor W. Adorno, ukronio, Volapuk, Zamenhof
William Auld en rememoro
De tempo al tempo je naska aŭ morta datreveno iu (ankaŭ mi ĉi-bloge) rememorigas pri William Auld (6 novembro 1924 – 11 septembro 2006). Okaze de la ĵusa 11a de septembro mi trovis la jenan grafikigitan poemon dankon al Facebook-amiko.
Do jen denove mia retgvidilo:
William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro
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Rubrikoj: beletro, nekrologoj, William Auld
The last time I reported on reviews of Voyage to Kazohinia was on July 26, Esperanto's 125th birthday.
Slightly more than a month later, I can only add one additional review, from a blog:
Voyage to Kazohinia, H. Deal Safrit, The Literary Outpost, August 28, 2012
The disappointing denouement of this review suggests the challenge ahead. The reviewer describes the outstanding features of the novel, but doesn't get it. Somehow the target of this satire alludes him. If he got it, he could still criticize it, even indicate why readers would not be sufficiently compelled by it, or why it might be considered dated,. but the reviewer loses his literary erection before consummating the literary experience. It's a symptom of the unwillingness to engage in critical thinking or anything that is not already familiar.
Other reviewers have found the elaboration of the Behins' irrational customs --which are a parody of European civilization--coded in Szathmári's profligate neologisms, excessive and thus eventually tedious. This I suppose is a matter of individual taste. One could criticize some of the concerns as dated, for example, the transposition of sexual taboos to food taboos, which would no longer be a novel satirical point for the contemporary reader. But two counterpoints here.
Once we consider the novel as an intervention at a particular point in history, and the repressive cultural and political circumstances of the time and place, we would gain a better understanding of the nature of Szathmári's intervention, and thus also of his putative limitations.
Secondly, the reviewer mentions an essential aspect of Behin society, that, even beyond our own irrational practices, words have lost all stable referents to reality among the Behins. This is not a trivial accomplishment of the satire. Contrapose it to the other extreme: of the strictly referential use of language among the Hins and the absence of poetry, symbolism, culture, and subjectivity. Herein lies an opposition whose implications still bear exegesis today.
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Rubrikoj: fikcio, filozofio, Hungario, kulturkritiko, literaturkritiko, recenzoj, Sándor Szathmári, satiro, sciencfikcio, semantiko, utopio
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