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Въобразяването на София: град, памет и индивид в българската литература на XX и XXI век
Imagining Sofia: City, Memory and Individual in 20th and 21st Century Bulgarian Literature

Author(s): Blagovest Zlatanov Velichkov, Anne Liebig
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Bulgarian Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: memory and literature; literature and the individual; cityscapes in literature; memoryscapes

Summary/Abstract: The interdisciplinary field of memory studies and literary science is a relatively new research subject that immediately attracted the attention of scholars from across various areas. In the case of Bulgarian literature, however, no comprehensive study has yet been attempted. This article strives to make a first, tentative contribution in this direction. By analysing three Bulgarian literary works – Čavdar Mutafov’s Smărten săn, Dimităr Korudžiev’s Predi da se umre and Vladislav Todorov’s Dzift – with regard to their interrelationship between city, memory and individual, this paper offers a thematically limited, but concise glimpse into some of the manifestations of a memoryscape in modernist and contemporary Bulgarian literature.

  • Issue Year: 58/2016
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 617-628
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian