"Моята земя", "моята сцена", моето пробуждане": фигуративните преживявания на природата по време на Голямата война (1914-1918) и българската модерност
„My Land", „My Stage", „My Awakening": the Figurative Experiences of Nature during the Great War (1914-1918) and the Bulgarian Modernity

Summary/Abstract: This text seeks to analyse the relations of the 'man at war' with nature (located in three 'realities': climatic conditions, landscape aesthetics, professional mastery of hard terrain such as mountains, swamps, rivers etc.) in order to reveal the types of culture whose meanings and value-normative codes, as unfolded in the concrete practices and images of the soldier's front everyday life, shape the outline of Bulgarian (un)modernity. The reconstruction of perceptions of nature through the immediate intimate experience of the 'warrior' (peasant, artisan, intellectual, professional military) of different situations of the front everyday life, as well as their post-war instrumentalisations, confirm the author's hypothesis in three basic points. Firstly, the war experience accelerates, in different degrees and at different levels, the processes, typical for modernity, of 'life individualisation' ('the body: its treatment and positioning in the respective environment'), of 'opening the fields of the repressed' (construction of the 'love situation' as a place of intimacy and erotic experience), of 'internalisation of postmaterial values' (increased profpssionalisation and realisation of an accumulated and conceptualised life experience), of 'division of the private from the public' (sensitivisation towards the communicative and expressive spaces of written culture at the expense of oral culture; retaining the identities of the public person: patriotic gestures and internal individual valuation of national symbolism), of 'increase of the individ ual's social importance' (avoidance of the marginalisation of one's own experiences, the awareness of the biographical self and its legitimisation through the discursive 're-evaluation' of the war experience in the Bulgarian inter-war public space). Secondly, the war-experience reproduces the life world perceptions of par-triarchality created by agrarian production experience: 'the all-too-practical aesthetic of immediate utility and harm'. Thirdly, the war experience reveals the 'places' that liberate the 'situations of modernity repressed by partiarchal norms' (e.g. the awareness of the compensation functions If the 'luxury-comfort') or awakening the sensibilities of the patriarchal world that have been marginalised by modernity (e.g. the social empathy of the professional military, general V. Vazov, sees in climatic changes 'not the problems of reservist's bodily discomfort' but the concern of the 'peasant in uniform' about the crops = life security); awakenings and liberations that show the social psychological stability of the 'schemes of perception, evaluation and action' (which retain and combine the spaces of both worlds in the individual life experience).

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