Антропология на градското пространство. Две възможни художествени перспективи
Anthropology Of The City. Two Perspectives Of Literary Presentations

Author(s): Albena Vacheva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Culture and social structure
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: novels; Sofia; city; socialism; recent past; centre-periphery
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of a study focused on the novels,published after 1989, related to Sofia’s recent past – the time of communism in Bulgaria and recent transformations in the city’s life. The main problem in the analysis is how the authors see the spaces of the city juxtaposing the specifics of public and private places in the capital city of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. Among the main topics of the novels are mapping of different places in order to reveal the life in the centre and features of people’s standard of living in the peripheral residential districts, descriptions of the parade grounds with ideological monuments and hidden places behind the facade of the socialist publicity. The mechanisms of narrative constructions presenting the architectonic of the communist town are shown through analytical cross reading of the novels Wunderkind by Nikolay Grozni, Party Headquarters by Georgy Tenev, The Sex and the City by Milena Fuchedzhieva and Matey Stoyanov’s Niki Franseto and Ales Gut. The changes in the city and thinking about the city of Sofia as a living entity are presented through the novel Teodora Dimova’s novel I do not know you.

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