How literature tells the story. Observations on contemporary Bulgarian Bessarabic prose Cover Image

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How literature tells the story. Observations on contemporary Bulgarian Bessarabic prose

Author(s): Elena Nalbantova
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Geography, Regional studies, Regional Geography, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: collective memory; Bessarabia; historical narratives and fictionalization; P.Trufkin, P. Burlak-Valkanov; Iv. Valkov; Il. Valkov; I. Nenov; A. Maleshkova and N. Kurtev D

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses fiction novels that have been written in Bulgarian since the 1960s by Bessarabian Bulgarians, focusing on topics related to the life of Bulgarian expats in Bessarabia. The Bulgarian Bessarabian literature from this period is defined as contemporary. This article reconstructs the historical context as interpreted in two different ways: as events that found their way into the narratives, and as circumstances, which enforced both the selection of topics and their interpretation, and at the same time the literary canon that shaped the texts. The article concludes that the depiction of historical events in the novels of P.Trufkin, P. Burlak-Valkanov, Iv. Valkov, Il. Valkov, I. Nenov, A. Maleshkova and N. Kurtev conforms to extraliterary factors: ideology, geopolitical interests of neighboring countries, civilizational pessimism.

  • Issue Year: 28/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 210-219
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian