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Посмъртното битие на поетите, или за три лирически антологични книги
The Posthumous Life of the Author, or Three Lyrical Anthologies

Author(s): Gergina Krysteva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Poetry, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Philology
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: contemporary Bulgarian poetry in the period 2008–2017; posthumous life; posthumous anthological project; Veselin Sariev; Yanaki Petrov
Summary/Abstract: The present paper, entitled „The Posthumous Life of the Author, or Three Lyrical Anthologies”, is an overview and part of a larger study of the period 2008-2017. It puts an emphasis on some personal details linked to concrete anthologies of two contemporary Bulgarian poets – Veselin Sariev and Yanaki Petrov. Тhese posthumous editions were prepared and released by editors upon the poets’ demise; they present opportunities for revealing research perspectives on the actual tendency of the last decade – completing and expressing the entirety of artistic biographies through the gesture of a posthumous anthological project.