Голямата промяна в литературата: деинституционализация или плурализиране на полето?
The Big Transformation in Literature: Deinstitutionalization or Pluralization of the Field?

Author(s): Mihail Nedelchev
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: status; institution; monopoly; literature; ideological compromise; professional career; doctrine; socialist realism; April Generation; samizdat, tamizdat; graphomaniac; book distribution; university
Summary/Abstract: This text outlines the situation in Bulgarian literary culture before and after the great breakthrough of November 10, 1989, namely, in the four decades surrounding this event. It offers in a summary form the story of the transformation of the Union of Bulgarian Writers into a totalitarian institution which enforced a unique monopoly over all literary creativity and the dissemination and meaning of literature. The paper lays out the great socio-cultural narrative of the chaotic, yet inevitably legitimate process of “deinstitutionalization” after the withdrawal of the state from its “tutelage,” of the “splitting” of literature into two “literatures” that do not read each other.

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