Алек Попов и неговата българска литература
Alek Popov And His Bulgarian Literature

Author(s): Dimitar Kambourov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: contemporary Bulgarian prose; satiric genre as high literature; strategies for turning Bulgarian satiric novel into canonical and world literature
Summary/Abstract: The article puts together two impromptu and intentionally accessible reflections on Alek Popov’s legacy provoked by his untimely death. Its purpose is mainly to enlist and delineate the literary achievements and innovations that Alek Popov introduced in the field of Bulgarian literature,as well as to indicate potential topics for future and hopefully upcoming research. The article briefly addresses four of his novels – “Mission London”, “Black Box”, the first of “Palaveevi Sisters”, and “Mission Turan”. It also pays attention to the role of language, genre, discursive registers, and fictional narrative in his trademark satiric novels. The article addresses the importance of the Bulgarian satiric tradition – and Aleko Konstantiov in particular – as well as the worldly manner of importing and creatively reapplying Anglo-Saxon canonical strategies and techniques in quest of universally approachable satiric critique and comic effect. The text concludes with an observation about the aesthetic solitude of Alek Popov in contemporary Bulgarian literature.

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