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София
Sofia

Author(s): Petar Dinekov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Short Story
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«

Summary/Abstract: The text from Peter Dinekov’s diaries follows in travel notes a day spent in Sofia in 1933 – sufficient time for the author to feel the life of the city. The fragment is a panoramic puzzle representing the social life and the mentality of the citizens of the capital. We can see the political and cultural institutions with their administrative sluggishness and cliquishness. The walk encompasses the transport (Sv. Kral), as well as the commercial arteries (from “Lege” and “Targovska” to “Pirotska”) and (not)tourist destinations (from “Alexander Nevsky” to “Konyovitsa” and “Banishora”). Weekdays streets come back to life with workers and unemployed, “partisans”, students and pensioners with their topos-world: the café. The charm of the night Sofia is revealed – restaurants, dance halls and not so many theaters because of the boredom in them. Sofia is seen as a place of celebrations, of vanity, parades and party processions, of obedience and cowardice, but also of disobedience and boldness. The fragment ends with a description which resembles to the poetic images of Smirnensky – the urban darkness in which “two worlds stand up against each other.”

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 91-102
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian