Synthesis Issue 4 / 2025

December 10, 2025

Table of Contents:

Cécile Vaissié

Littératures russe et française : deux siècles entre obsessions non-réciproques et bouleversements des statuts / 7

Alexandre Stroev

La literature soviétique en France dans les années 1920-1930 : le cas d’Isaac Babel / 23

Juan Wu

Binding by Synchrony”: Cognitive Pattern Recognition and Narrative Synchronization in Nabokov’s Pale Firehttps://synthesis.ro/binding-by-synchrony-cognitive-pattern-recognition-and-narrative-synchronization-in-nabokovs-pale-fire/ / 45

Anna Förster

Translation and the past: Roland Barthes and the “recovery” of Czechoslovak structuralism in the 1960s/ 75

Ana Maria Dumitrașcu

Dialectique de l’ecriture kunderienne: Bohème – France, 1968-2014 / 112

Ilinca Ilian & Elena Crașovan

Latin American Literature as World Literature: Cultural and Political Games between Peripheries after the Second World War. The Romanian Case / 132

Michèle Fornhoff-Levitt

Staging Synchronization: Yiddish Theatre in the Interwar Paris and the Dynamics of Cultural Negotiation / 161

Shiqian Zhou

Voiceless Resistance: Gender, Colonialism, and the Limits of Agency in Xu Xi’s Hong Kong Rose / 202

Nicu Diaconiuc

L’Orient comme fata Morgana dans les relations de voyage aux Pays Roumains de Stanislas Bellanger/ 225

Catrinel Popa

L’Ouest regarde l’Est. La convention  du voyageur étranger dans la littérature roumaine d’hier et d’aujourd’hui/ 252

Svetlana Karadzhova

Eminescu’s The Morning Star in Banat Bulgarian Literature – Between Margins and Centers / 268

Galin Tihanov

The responsibility of critical examination, the duty of thinking cannot be outsourced” An interview with Galin Tihanov/ 285

Marko JUVAN

“Partnerships among ‘peripherals’ in joint research projects and scholarly publishing also contribute significantly to the decolonization of literary studies” An interview with Marko Juvan / 291

NOTICES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES

Neal Alexander and David Cooper (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies, Series: Routledge Literature Handbooks, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2024, 446 p. (Cristina DEUTSCH)

Dennis Yi Tenen, Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write, W.W. Norton & Company, 2024, 158 p. (Daniela VIZIREANU)

 Bruce Lincoln, Secrets, Lies and Consequences.A great Scholar’s Hidden Past and His Protege’s Unsolved Murder, Oxford University Press, 2023, [Secrete, minciuni și consecințe. Trecutul ascuns al unui mare savant și asasinarea discipolului său, Traduction de l’anglais par Sorana Lupu, Iași : Polirom, 2024] (Cristina SCARLAT)

Gisèle Sapiro and Delia Ungureanu (ed.), Pascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2022, 213 p. (Darius BUMBAR)