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    Power and Love versus Death : "Death Constant Beyond Love " by Gabriel Garc ía Márquez
    (Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, 2024) Tekin,K.
    This article analyses the philosophy and literary aesthetics of Gabriel García Márquez's political satire with reference to his short story, "Death Constant beyond Love."The analysis is based on the author's views concerning the common personality traits, actions and ends of tyrannical rulers made manifest in the main character of the story - Senator Onesimo Sanchez. It is observed that the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius' meditations on the transience of existence, and the mortality of man serve as the backdrop to the power-drunk Senator's vain attempts to keep exercising his tyranny despite his awareness of his looming death. The story's central theme is that misused political power - no matter how wide its scope - is limited by man's transient corporeal existence, or by death, to put it more simply. The author's reflections upon dishonest politicians as fictionalized in the Senator display how corruption defiles each individual in society. The discussion on the nature and ramifications of man's boundless ambition for power also draws on Nietzsche's will to power/will to life equation, andFoucault's views on resistance-freedom/power proposition. © 2024 Kuǧu Tekin.
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    ANALYSING THE ALLOGRAPHIC NOTES IN THE TURKISH TRANSLATION OF AN ECOLOGICAL WORK: SILENT SPRING
    (Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, 2024) Hastürkoǧlu,G.
    Paratextual elements play a crucial role in original and translated works, serving as a bridge between the creators and the recipients of the works. Analysing these elements can provide a deeper understanding of the motives of the authors, publishers, and translators. This study aims to investigate the allographic notes, specifically the translator's notes, in the Turkish translation of Silent Spring, a work that raises awareness about environmental impacts of DDT on ecology. The study also seeks to reveal, in such an ecological context, the translator's approach and motives in using footnotes categorized as factual and interpretive notes and their functions. The qualitative analysis indicates that the factual notes outnumber the interpretive notes and the main function of the translator's notes is to provide definitional and explanatory information about the ecology-related terminology which is in line with the genre of the text and the characteristics of the target readers. © 2023 Gökçen Hastürkoglu.