Преход и периферия в „Ломски разкази“ на Емил Андреев и „Пернишки разкази“ на Здравка Евтимова
Transition and Periphery in “Lom Stories” by Emil Andreev and “Pernik Stories” by Zdravka Evtimova

Author(s): Kristiyan Yanev
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: transition; periphery; regional literature; Emil Andreev; Zdravka Evtimova
Summary/Abstract: The text compares the depiction of the geographical periphery and the countryside after 1989 in two contemporary collections of short stories – Emil Andreev’s Lom Stories and Zdravka Evtimova’s Pernik Stories, where the interest in the regional is set in the context of the so-called ‘spatial turn’ in the humanities. The article examines how and to what extent the image of the Transition is present in the shorter narrative forms. It also explores the mechanisms of representation in the two volumes – allegorical and characteristic of the postmodern experiments of the 1990s in Emil Andreev’s, realistic in Zdravka Evtimova’s. The text argues that in Lom Stories (1996) the regional functions as a mythologized space rather than a topographical reality, while in Zdravka Evtimova’s Pernik Stories (2012) the provincial is represented through its social marginality and peripherality.

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