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Адаптация към съвременните реалности или оцеляване в либералната джунгла
Adaptation to Contemporary Reality or How to Survive in the Liberal Jungle

Author(s): Petar Stefanov
Subject(s): Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: children’s literature; adaptation; children’s reading; market situation; infor¬mation revolution; new person; positive phenomena

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the state of children’s literature in Bulgaria after the beginning of the democratic changes. It establishes the absence of some of its major components, mostly resulting from the lack of strategy for its place, role and development, as well as from a certain indifference on behalf of the society and the state. The reasons for the current state of children’s literature are seen also in new phenomena, that change not only the way in which we live, but the spiritual make-up of adolescents. Admitting that nowadays it is impossible to return the same cult toward fiction to the children, that was characteristic in the past, the author reflects upon the possibilities for unification of the efforts of both the cultural and educational institutions to support learning and literacy in order for children to be able to join this universal source of information: the book.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 95-103
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian