Приказките на други народи в творчеството на българските писатели
The Folktales of other Peoples in the Work of Bulgarian Writers

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the literary revisions of folktales in the work of Bulgarian writers. The attention is centred upon the relationships between the personal creative approach and the national narrative style in the authorized stories by Ran Bossilek, Angel Karalijchev, Elin Pelin and Nikolai Rainov. The author points out the writers’ „fidelity” to the folktale tradition and to the people’s artistic, aesthetic and moral standards. This quality is most clearly evident in the analysis of Bulgarian folktales retold, which have parallels in the narrative tradition of other peoples. In this case one feels the presence of a national style, revealing itself within the framework of the common tale type. The author makes a more detailed analysis of cases when Bulgarian writers retell stories of other peoples with the national colour ever present. Here a complex gamut is formed by the national colouring of the folktale from the „original” source, the Bulgarian folktale tradition (to which the writer, in general, remains faithful) and the peculiar features of the author’s style. Comparisons are made with regard to the dynamics of this process in the work of the writers above mentioned. In conclusion, the author points out that a common characteristic feature is the tendency not so much to „translate” the original, but rather to „incorporate” the retold foreign stories in the general pattern of the system of Bulgarian folktales, without impairing their national peculiarity.

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