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The Other Land of the Story. On Zdravka Evtimova’s Prose

Author(s): Vladimir Donev
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: poetics of the short story; connotative meanings; metaphorical style of narration; first-person narration; personalized third-person narration; parable; dystopia

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the poetics of the short story in fiction of Zdravka Evtimova, one of the most talented storytellers in contemporary Bulgarian literature. It is briefly traced the path of forming the narrative style of the writer through experiments in the art of narration of the socio-realistic motivated conflicts to the connotation of the word and the emergence of stories-parables and stories-dystopia in fiction.

  • Issue Year: 26/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 148-153
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bulgarian