IMMORTAL DEATH AND THE LIMITS OF HUMAN LIFE IN GALIN NIKIFOROV`S NOVELS Cover Image

БЕЗСМЪРТНАТА СМЪРТ И ГРАНИЦИТЕ НА ЧОВЕШКИЯ ЖИВОТ В РОМАНИТЕ НА ГАЛИН НИКИФОРОВ
IMMORTAL DEATH AND THE LIMITS OF HUMAN LIFE IN GALIN NIKIFOROV`S NOVELS

Author(s): Elena Borisova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: contemporary Bulgarian literature; death; immortality; mythology; science

Summary/Abstract: The current report aim is to present how Galin Nikiforov novels “Clowns’ house”, “The photographer: Obscura reperta” and “The fox” interpret death (Immortal Death) through mythological and scientific understanding. This view situates the novels on the border between reality and imagination. The author traces the subject of death and immortality through Egyptian, Japanese, African and Chinese mythology to the recent situation to show how human thought and spirituality have found expresion in various religious cults. Research have sought to prove the possibility of the body to reproduce its longevity and have evoked in better knowing the human physiology. The quest to find the “golden pill” of immortality is thus clearly defined in “The fox” novel.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 108-116
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian