Романите на Младен Младенов и Руси Чанев „Битак. Роман-касета“ и „Бардак. Роман-репортаж“ като сбор от акустични картини на прехода
The Novels of Mladen Mladenov and Rusi Chanev “Bitak [Flea-market]. A Novel-Cassete” and “Bardak [Brothel]. A Novel-reportage” as a Collection of Acoustic Images of the Transition

Author(s): Boris Minkov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: linguistic carnival; oral speech; fragmented narration; City of Truth; prominence
Summary/Abstract: Bitak [Flea-market] and Bardak [Brothel] are works that are hard to place in the literary history of the 1990s. Written by actors, they were received with some derision by the writing community. Published in 1997, during the deepest economic and political crisis of the Transition, they could hardly count on any noteworthy reception beyond the level of popular culture, but neither did they have access to a wider reading audience. Despite their acute reception deficit, however, these works represent two of the most radical artistic gestures in recent Bulgarian literature. Like the experiments of Karl Kraus in The Last Days of Mankind, the authors seem to have placed, as it were, microphones in front of random characters for whom life during the Transition means a collective presence on the street: angry, mocking, carnivalesque, unstoppable, excessive. The effect is of a narrative made up by the suddenly liberated spoken word, whose outpouring into the public sphere creates the images and myths of history.

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