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Една непубликувана сатирична творба на Васил Попович и нейният контекст
One unpublished satirical work by Vasli Popovich and its context

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Институт за литература - БАН
Keywords: Vasli Popovich; satire; Konstantin Jireček; Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan; Vasil D. Stoyanov; Orientalism; symbolic capital

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the satirical works of Vasil Popovich (1833-1897), most of them unpublished in his lifetime, and analyses them in the context of their time – the debates about the standard language, about literature and the Bulgarian Literary Society from the end of 19th century. In the focus are also the conflicted relations of V. Popovich with Ivan Vazov, Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan, Vasil D. Stoyanov, and Konstantin Jireček. The tension between them is interpreted as a manifestation of their competition for symbolic capital and for gaining an important position in society and literature. As a supplement, at the end is added an unpublished text by V. Popovich from 1887, written in an imitation of Oldbulgarian/ Church-Slavonic language as a personal letter.

  • Issue Year: 64/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 80-116
  • Page Count: 37
  • Language: Bulgarian