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Homo narrans fictus, или разказването като форма на съществуване
Homo Narrans Fictus, or Storytelling as a Mode of Existence

Author(s): Ivona Vartelkova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: autofiction; homo narrans fictus; identity; narrating self; narrated self

Summary/Abstract: This article shows how autofiction emerges from the gap between the Self that narrates and the Self that is narrated exploring the disjunction between past and present. It is not merely a genre, but an anthropological and ethical act in which the individual called homo narrans fictus constructs the Self through storytelling. Writing allows for coexistence with lost time and constitutes identity as a process of continuous retelling and fictionalization of the Self.

  • Issue Year: 12/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 96-103
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian
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