Проговорилото мълчание
Silence That Talks

Summary/Abstract: No matter what the literary criticism asserts, it appears fairly plausible that the Bulgarian symbolists have much in common not only with the French or Russian modernists (as so far assumed), but also (and to a greater extent!) with the medieval Bulgarian and Byzantine mystics practicing quietude. For our symbolists – just like the medieval hesychasts five centuries before them __ preferred the apophatic way of expression: besides assigning special function to the negative lexical forms, they also conveyed any action, or state, through passive or reflexive verbs mainly; hardly ever did logical and grammatical subjects coincide. The stylistic correspondences were undoubtedly underlain by certain ideological similarities. And even if the symbolists confessed that they lacked the Divine Grace, to contemplate perfection as well as to long for turning back to the primordial state was not less characteristic of them than of the hesychasts.

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