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Образът на съвременника в контекста на съвременния рок роман
The Image of the Contemporary in the Context of the Contemporary Rock Novel

Author(s): Vesela Ganeva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: rock novel; contemporary; ancestral memory; Agamben; Jameson; musical pauses; digital age; ekphrasis; American fiction

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the image of the contemporary individual in the context of the contemporary rock novel, with a focus on the search for connections to ancestral memory and on the adaptation to the digital age. It analyzes Agamben’s and Jameson’s concepts of modernity, as well as the role of music as a bridge between past, present and future. The discussion turns to several contemporary rock novels in which musical pauses and the act of listening to analogue music become a means of reflecting on identity and temporality. The study shows how a new type of consciousness uses music not as an escape, but as a space of solitude and focused attention in the present, linking generations and family memory.

  • Issue Year: XX/2026
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 290-301
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian
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