Autofiction and Its Boundaries in Yordan Radichkov’s "Noah’s Ark" Cover Image

„Граници“ на автофикцията в романа "Ноев ковчег" на Йордан Радичков
Autofiction and Its Boundaries in Yordan Radichkov’s "Noah’s Ark"

Author(s): Ilvie Konedareva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: boundaries of autofiction; Noah’s Ark; postmodern poetics; author; reader

Summary/Abstract: The article examines Noah’s Ark as a work of autofiction that integrates fictional and real elements in a distinctive manner. Yordan Radichkov’s narrative establishes its own “internal” boundaries, within which the autobiographical and the fictional interact. The study traces the outcomes of this mode of autofictional narration. While the novel clearly exhibits the defining features of autofiction, its play with the biographical aligns it more closely with postmodern poetics, allowing it to be defined as a form of postmodern autofiction from the late 1980s.

  • Issue Year: 12/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 27-43
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian
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