Some Motives of Bulgarian Fantasy Literature from the Socialist Period: Escape from the Canon Cover Image

Някои мотиви на българската фантастика от социалистическия период: бягство от канона
Some Motives of Bulgarian Fantasy Literature from the Socialist Period: Escape from the Canon

Author(s): Boryana Tsvetkova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: fiction; socialist realism; Lyuben Dilov; Emil Manov; Pavel Vezhinov

Summary/Abstract: The article explores selected examples of the fantastic prose in Bulgarian literature in the 1970s and 1980s in the context of the socialist realist canon. It focuses on the dynamics of social and cultural attitudes in society, under the influence of which some of the finest works of Lyuben Dilov, Emil Manov and Pavel Vezhinov appear, which represent a kind of departure from the dominant style and thematic tendencies. The text examines the changed understanding of the function of literary creativity and the breakdown of monologic language within an ideologically homogeneous literary field.