Консервативните атаки срещу българската литература през 90-те
Conservative Attacks on Bulgarian Literature in the 1990s

Author(s): Moris Fadel
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: nationalism; nostalgia; anti-Westernism; modernity
Summary/Abstract: The article explores the situation in Bulgarian literature in the early 1990s, a time which saw a radical transformation of the literary space. Writers attempted to be in sync with what was happening in Western Europe and USA. At the same time, however, they became subjected to devastating criticism from emerging post-communist nationalism and anti-Western sentiments. The attacks against them were primarily political. From an aesthetic point of view, they were mostly concentrated in a nostalgia for the “timeless” canon of Bulgarian literature. At the end of the article, a link is made to present-day conservative anti-Western propaganda in Eastern Europe.

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