БАЛАДА ЗА ТЪЖНИТЕ МАЛКИ ЧОВЕЦИ – ‘БОЛНАТА КУКЛА’, ‘МРАМОРНИЯТ АНГЕЛ’ И ФИГУРАТА НА ПРОПУКАНОТО ДЕТСТВО В РОМАНА “EМИНЕ” НА ТЕОДОРА ДИМОВА)
A BALLAD FOR THE SAD SMALL PEOPLE : ‘THE SICK DOLL’, ‘THE MARBLE ANGEL’, AND THE IMAGE OF THE BROKEN CHILDHOOD IN TEODORA DIMOVA’S NOVEL ‘EMINE’

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the present paper is to explore the thematic aspects related to the figure of the problematic little man in Teodora Dimova's novel "Emine", while investigating the different problematic situations which are at the base of such psychological change during childhood. As it brings into focus the multiplicity of readings which have their root in the image of the traumatized childhood, the paper aims to examine its childlike yet traumatized view of the world. For this purpose the paper constructs associative framework involving the images of the sick doll and the marble angel, so giving them new significance as a fundamental pair of meaningful activity in the problematic-thematic range of the novel. It can be proved that their unity and inseparability are fundamental to the construction of the future problematic situations and that their fusion as complex imagery makes them the starting point of the (re)constructions of the forthcoming crises. Furthermore it is their palpable presence in the problematic fields of the novel which hinders a clear-cut differentiation between the childlike vision and the poetry of the trauma, which in turn results from the operation of the axiological principle of their fusion and blending. On one hand they make the lack of balance in the identity-building strata only too obvious, as it is evidenced in the duality and the contradictory emotional reaction of the characters to the world. On the other hand it is again 'by means of them' that the semantic layers of the crisis writing are revealed, the latter being modeled by the symbols of morbidity, sterility and spiritual deterioration of the human characters of the novel.

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