Светлината в сянката и сянката в светлината
The Light in the Shadow and the Shadow in the Light

An observation on the structure of the dramatism in Τhe Vampire by Anton Strashimirov

Summary/Abstract: The first play with a vampire motif in the history of Bulgarian literature is the subject of this article. Strashimirov’s drama is analyzed in juxtaposition with the Gothic-Byronic Western European tradition. The main dramatic structure around the love triangle is examined not simply as a social or a Romeo-and-Juliet type of conflict, but as a mirror-symmetry structure. In this way The Vampire is observed as a dramatic work not only with a single antihero vampire, but as an interpretation of vampirism as metaphorical ‘lexis’ of‘the dark side’ of the human being.

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