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Екзистенциалната феноменология на гората в „Шумки от габър“ на Николай Хайтов
The Existential Phenomenology of the Forest in Nikolay Haytov’s Hornbeam Leaves

Author(s): Nikolay Turlakov
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Bulgarian Literature, Cultural Essay, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: forest; mountain; meaning; authenticity; the people’s soul; literature; existential phenomenology

Summary/Abstract: This essay attempts to outline the authentic existential phenomenology of the forest, and specifically, the existential meaning and feeling related to hornbeam and oak trees, in Haytov’s famous work Hornbeam Leaves. The article argues that in this book, Haytov`s insightful descriptions of trees, of the hornbeam and the oak, the pine and the creeping pine, the beech and the hazel, etc., deploy an amazing existential phenomenology of the Bulgarian forest, which amounts to no less than a genuine phenomenology of the Bulgarian soul.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2017
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 5-18
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English, Bulgarian