Times and masks in texts by and about Emiliyan Stanev Cover Image

Времена и маски. По текстове от и за Емилиян Станев
Times and masks in texts by and about Emiliyan Stanev

Author(s): Venelin Grudkov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: literature of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria; socialist realist canon; socialist parnassianism; alternative canon

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the masks Emiliyan Stanev uses to participate in the literary life of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. It also analyzes the attitude of literary scholarship towards the writer’s various manifestations. It comes to the conclusion that in order to defend his literary existence and to ensure literary publicity for his texts, the author had to simultaneously perform several – in certain cases mutually exclusive – social roles.

  • Issue Year: 30/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 168-177
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian