Иван Теофилов - преследван и спъван, но винаги побеждаващ талант
Ivan Teofilov – A Talent Persecuted And Hindered, But Always Winning

Author(s): Giuseppe DELL'AGATA
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Ivan Teofilov; Georgi Gospodinov; epistolary novel; biography; memoir
Summary/Abstract: The object of attention in this text is the book Ivan Teofilov, About Joy and Language. A conversation in Letters with Georgi Gospodinov (Sofia, 2023), defined by its authors as an epistolary novel – a novel in letters,created between 2021 – 2022. The article trails and comments on Ivan Teofilov's memoir about his own life, highlighting individual and essentially important events in each part of the book. The book is the result of the authors’ desire for this epistolary novel to be perceived as a magnificent critical work on Bulgarian prose, poetry and theater of the 20th century in the Bulgarian socio-political context for almost a whole century. About Joy and Language is a biography of a major intellectual person, but also a biography of the complex Bulgarian times in the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.

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