Животът (като) музика в сборника на Константин Константинов „Любов“
Life (as) Music in Konstantin Konstantinov’s Collection of Short Stories “Love”

Summary/Abstract: The present text focuses on understanding the functions that music performs in the collection “Love” – it is a key to conceptualizing the individual periods in human life. The entire collection is structured according to the model of a musical work: the individual stories in it represent variations of the two main themes that concern (and will continue to concern in his subsequent books) K. Konstantinov: youth and old age. In the first story “Storm”, the narrator not only links youth with music, but also seems to equate them – youth is music. In the following texts, with the redirection of attention to the problem of human aging (biological and social), it is noticeable that music begins to fade and even completely disappear from the narrative fabric of the works. In this sense, aging is understood as a sinking into silence.

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