Penser la mer Noire pour proposer une « périodisation spatiale » de l’histoire de l’espace littéraire bulgare
Thinking about the Black Sea to propose a “spatial periodisation” of a Bulgarian literary space history

Author(s): Marie Vrinat-Nikolov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Greek Literature, Turkish Literature, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Сдружение „Транспонтика“
Keywords: literary historiography; transnational literary space; Bulgaria; Ottoman communities
Summary/Abstract: To think in terms of literary field, as Pierre Bourdieu did in the second half of the twentieth century, was already to introduce topography into literary history, which made it possible, among other things, to focus on institutions and to view literature as a “space of possibilities” and not as being conditioned by political and historical events, in a deterministic causal relationship. And if Pascale Casanova extended and broadened this work to the “World Republic of Letters”, if Franco Moretti drew up stimulating cartographies, it seems to me that the notion of literary space, encompassing an “imagined community” and all the areas with which this community has maintained links, unilateral or mutual, a space considered in the horizontality but also in the verticality of strata that accumulate in the memory of this space, helps to consider literary history in a new perspective and to bring out phenomena that a national and strictly temporal (linear) framework conceals and unifies. The Bulgarian literary space is thus revealed in its multiplicity, at the confluence of two large areas of privileged literary contacts: the Black Sea space (currently Turkey, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia) and that of Western Europe (mainly France, Germany and Italy).

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