NIKOLAY KANCHEV’S POETRY FOR CHILDREN. FORMS OF CONTROL, ‘PLACES’ OF FREEDOM Cover Image

ЛИРИКАТА НА НИКОЛАЙ КЪНЧЕВ ЗА ДЕЦА. ФОРМИ НА КОНТРОЛ, „МЕСТА“ НА СВОБОДА
NIKOLAY KANCHEV’S POETRY FOR CHILDREN. FORMS OF CONTROL, ‘PLACES’ OF FREEDOM

Author(s): Nadezhda Stoyanova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Nikolay Kanchev; children’s poetry; ideological control; freedom; space

Summary/Abstract: The communist ideological status quo did not allow Bulgarian poet Nikolay Kanchev to publish his works in the period between 1968 and 1980. The only exception was made for his children’s poetry. Later, when rehabilitation of the author started (in the 1980s and 1990s), his children’s works were read mainly as a compensatory gesture and were very often ignored by literary critics. The aim of this study is to outline the lyrical independence of these works by focusing on their interpretation of the control over the person and the escape routes of the subject into secret personal spaces and in poetry.

  • Issue Year: 9/2023
  • Issue No: 1 (17)
  • Page Range: 77-94
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bulgarian