Мечтатели, дърдорковци и сноби. Фигурата на стария ерген в българската литература
Dreamers, Chatterboxes And Snobs. The Figure Of The Old Bachelor In Bulgarian Literature

Author(s): Tatiana Ichevska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: old bachelor; philosophizing; dreaminess; snobbery; (in)complete existence
Summary/Abstract: This text tries to answer the question whether the figure of the old bachelor manages to provoke the interest of Bulgarian literature. The focus of our attention will be different texts during their creation and genre specifics, and in the course of observations the literary history will be neglected at the expense of the formation of common problem cores that would help us (re)construct some of the literary biographies of the old bachelor. The first of them is laid on the motive for parting with the bachelor life. The stories The Windmill and The Woman with the Golden Hair by Elin Pelin, as well as the novel The Adventures of Gorolomov by Yovkov draw attention to those unusual events and/or circumstances that drastically overturn the usual bachelor existence. In the second biography, which we can distinguish (the novel Uncles by Ivan Vazov), the old bachelor arouses curiosity and interest in himself, on the one hand, because of his extravagant appearance, and on the other, because of his immersion on the role of a philosopher. Despite the specific differences of the literary-historical and socio-cultural contexts, the product of which are characters such as Boyanov and Kostov, it is not difficult to see that in both works the problem of the inferiority of the old bachelor's life is brought to the fore.

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