Опит в жанровата генеалогия на прозата. Повествованията на Любен Каравелов

Author(s): Violeta Ruseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

This critical undertaking seeks to establish the fictional status of prose by means of tracking down the genre’s genealogy. Drawing on the historical poetics of New Bulgarian literature, the study focuses on the differentiation of prose narratives from the variety of literary modes that shaped the discursive polyphony of Revival literature: journalism, folk studies, linguistic endeavours, philological reflections, folklore archives, parts of which went down in prose as specific expressions or synthetic formulations serving to impart a degree of fiction to the narrative. The specifics of Karavelov’s narration render it eligible for analysis that employs the strategies and methods of counternormative genealogy, the study of genre development that registers the impulse for its dissolution.

Евелина Джевиецка, Юбилейно и модерно. Кирило-Mетодиевският разказ през социализма в България (Кирило-Методиевски студии, кн. 29, 2020)

Author(s): Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The review concerns the book by Ewelina Drzewiecka entitled Юбилейно и модерно. Кирило-Mетодиевският разказ през социализма в България (2020), which is an attempt to create the typology of the narratives about the Solun Brothers and their followers in Bulgarian scientific, Orthodox church, pseudo-scientific and journalistic writing of the socialist era, that is in texts that were created under conditions of a disturbed communicative situation, strong ideological pressure and (self-)censorship. The review not only discusses the book, but also contains comments on the Author’s research approach (based on the achievements of postsecular thought) and cognitive benefits that result from it.

Една непубликувана сатирична творба на Васил Попович и нейният контекст

Author(s): Nikolay Aretov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

This paper presents the satirical works of Vasil Popovich (1833-1897), most of them unpublished in his lifetime, and analyses them in the context of their time – the debates about the standard language, about literature and the Bulgarian Literary Society from the end of 19th century. In the focus are also the conflicted relations of V. Popovich with Ivan Vazov, Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan, Vasil D. Stoyanov, and Konstantin Jireček. The tension between them is interpreted as a manifestation of their competition for symbolic capital and for gaining an important position in society and literature. As a supplement, at the end is added an unpublished text by V. Popovich from 1887, written in an imitation of Oldbulgarian/ Church-Slavonic language as a personal letter.

За немското научно издание „Bulgarica“

Author(s): Martin Henzelmann / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

The German academic annual “Bulgarica” has been published since 2018. It replaced the “Bulgarien-Jahrbuch” (“Bulgarian Yearbook”). Both “Bulgarica” and “Bulgarien-Jahrbuch” were and are published by the German-Bulgarian Association “Deutsch-bulgarische Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Bulgarien e.V.” (DBG). The publications include academic papers on Bulgarian studies, highlighting linguistics, literature, culture, architecture, history, documents, book reviews, varia and in memoriam.

Popular Music: The Lyrics Strike Back

Author(s): Kalina Zahova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Popular song lyrics are a very important object of study, although they are sometimes not appreciated properly. The last third of the twentieth century saw popular song receding from its lyrics by the image, namely the video – the image-based legislator of popular music for a few decades. However, the lyrics have found their way to strike back, and this article outlines some manifestations of their importance in contemporary culture(s). With the rise of lyric videos, popular music made a turn toward the interpretative challenges of written poetry because watching such videos involves a process of reading while listening. Further literaturization of popular music comes from the transformation of song lyrics into books – under certain conditions, reading the lyrics as written poems includes hearing them internally as songs.

Българистиката в университета „Демокрит“ и рецепцията на българската литература в Гърция

Author(s): Fotiny Christakoudy-Konstantinidou / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 29/2022

The problems of reception and translation of Bulgarian literature in Greece, especially regarding their contemporary period of development after the Second World War, are thoroughly and comprehensively addressed by M. Nihoriti in her study “Bulgarian-Greek Literary Relations after the Second World War until the year of 2000”. An explanation for the significantly smaller number of Greek researches on the Bulgarian-Greek cultural and literary exchange can be sought within the relatively late academic development of Slavic studies (in 1926, Departments of Balkan history and Departments of Slavic languages and philologies were established at the newly created University of Thessaloniki), within aspects of the political life after the lowering of the “Iron Curtain” in Europe, but also within factors that determined the Bulgarian-Greek political and diplomatic relations in the long run (related to the theory of J. Ph. Fallmerayer, to the dominance of Megali Idea in the national history of Greece, to the interstate conflicts in the regions of Thrace and Macedonia, etc.). Along with the synthetically presented information about the historical path of translated Bulgarian literature in Greece, the role of Bulgarian studies at the Democritus University of Thrace is outlined. A focus is put on the participation of Associate professor Christina Markou and her students in the processes of modern literary translation in the Balkans.

Сеизмографичният автор и литературните катаклизми. Антон Страшимиров по стъпките на Станислав Пшибишевски

Author(s): Piotr Misztela / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 29/2022

This article analyzes the traces of Stanisław Przybyszewski’s oeuvre in three Anton Strashimirov’s urban novels: The Meeting, The Suspension Bridge and Bena. Strashimirov, known for his restless and impressionable artistic nature, decided to equip Sofia intellectuals with the typical obsessions of Przybyszewski’s protagonists, including the fatal power of lust or the desire for unavailable androgynous synthesis. Both plot and language of the three novels reveal inspirations by the Polish author’s “naked soul” conception.

"На прощаване" в типологията на лирическите жанрове

Author(s): Alexandar Panov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The article analyzes Hristo Botev's poem „Farewell in 1868“, tracking the different genre paradigms to which it can be referred. Adopting the thesis that the typology of lyrical genres is mainly determined by the performative character of lyrical discourse, the author clarifies the discursive characteristics of the poem. It is established that the appellative nature of the „message“, as the poem is in appellative form, is only an artistic convention. The real communicative purpose of the literary text is not appellative, but declarative, and wants to achieve the joining of the perceiving community to the value system and value architectonics of the world shared by the lyrical hero. This discursive analysis allows to determine the place of the poem in the typology of lyrical genres.

Литературните произведения в учебните програми за VIII - XII клас в контекста на възпитанието и превантивната педагогика

Author(s): Daniel Polihronov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The article interprets the problem of the educational and preventive functions of literature. A systematisation and interpretation of the literary works included in the curricula in the first and second high school stages of secondary education is proposed, in the context of the components determining the structure of personality upbringing.

ЗА ЕДНА КЪСНА И НЕИЗВЕСТНА ПОЕМА ЗА ПАИСИЙ ХИЛЕНДАРСКИ ОТ МИХАИЛ КОВАЧЕВ (1962)

Author(s): Iveta Rasheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 22/2023

In 1962, the Bulgarian Church canonized Paisij Hilendarski. “Church Newspaper” devotes its entire issue from December of the same year to the event. It contains the lyrical poem “Paisij Hilendarski” by Mihail Kovachev, a researcher of Mount Athos and the Zograf Monastery. The report dwells on the question of what she managed to “say” in the difficult time of socialism.

Between Freedom and Imprisonment. The Shanghai Ghetto from the Perspective of the Bulgarian Writer Angel Wagenstein

Author(s): Marzanna Kuczyńska / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2023

Angel Wagenstein’s novel Farewell, Shanghai is this article’s focal point. The atten-tion focuses on the literary picture of the Shanghai ghetto (Hongkew district) during the Second World War. Wagenstein shows the ghetto as symbol of the end of the Jews’s eternal wandering, where they found autonomy from other nations, and reunification based on sufferings and religion. Before them there stands the long-awaited promised land, where they themselves will govern themselves.

Количествено отношение на сложните смесени изречения в текстовете на Йордан Йовков и Елин Пелин

Author(s): Kamelia Vasileva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

The article presents the results of analyzing the syntactic features in use of complex mixed sentences. The purpose of the research is to compare the quantity of subordinate clauses in texts by two Bulgarian writers – Yordan Yovkov and Elin Pelin. The corpus of analyzed texts includes 30 complex mixed sentences from 3 short stories by Yovkov – “Albena“, “Shibil“, “Bojura“ and 30 complex mixed sentences from 3 short stories by Elin Pelin – “Andreshko“, “The Windmill“, “A soup from the sins of Father Nicodemus“.

Хапаксите в Дионисиевия превод на Словата за Лазар и Богаташа от св. Йоан Златоуст

Author(s): Zahari Mishev / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Old Bulgarian,Greek, Modern (1453-) Issue: 2/2023

The article presents the Hapax legomena found in The Dionysian translation of the homilies about Lazarus and the Rich Man by St. John Chrysostom. It provides information about the translation techniques used by Dionysius Divni and how his creative approach to translation had an impact on the lexical enrichment of the Bulgarian literary language in the 14th century. As a result of the excerpted lexical material, it can be concluded that the scholar was not only a brilliant translator but also an innovator because he introduced and applied word forms that are not found in any other Slavic texts.

Сюжетните модели на два съвременни български разказа („Клетвата“ на П. Делчев и „Как купихме Ленин“ на М. Пенков)

Author(s): Aleksandar Hristov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

The paper provides a perspective on the short stories “Kletvata” (The Oath) by Petar Delchev and “Kak Kupihme Lenin” (Buying Lenin) by Miroslav Penkov. The aim is to interpret and distinguish the plot models of the works from each other. A linear model is used in the first story, while in the second a multilinear one. Although these two models are found in many different variations and/or with a number of modifications, they are frequently observed and intensely manifested. At the same time, they occupy a key place (as types of plot construction) in Bulgarian narrative traditions. In other words, the paper can be used as a prerequisite for analysis of the literary processes.

Психосоциология на престъплението в романа „Пропаст“ от Антон Страшимиров

Author(s): Iliyana Dimitrova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

In his last novel, “The abyss. From the Notes of a Doctor” (1936) Anton Strashimirov continues to show interest in the collective stereotypes and the social preconditions that shape a person’s behavior and emotional attitudes towards the world around him/her. With its polyphony of human voices and interpretations, the work under comment intersects different, even incompatible, individual interpretations of essential aspects of existence, seeking answers to questions related to the boundaries between good and evil, freedom and coercion, sin and crime.

Тодор Влайков и Михалаки Георгиев (за патриархалната задруга – „Дядовата Славчова унука“ и „Рада“)

Author(s): Neli Kirilova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The article discusses the patriarchal cooperative as part of the traditional cultural system of patriarchal man. The focus is on the deviations from established norms and orders leading to cracks in this world model. This issue occupies a central place in the work of Todor Vlaykov and Mihalaki Georgiev. Placing them in an intertextual dialogue delineates two models of patriarchalism. The dialogue between Vlaykov and Georgiev also outlines a different conceptually attitude in fictional text. And last but not least the points of view of this article are the different aspects in the poetics of two writers who are qualified as „discoverers of the Bulgarian village“. The object of textological researchers are two emblematic works for the authors – “ Grandfather Slavcho’s granddaughter” and “Rada”.

1944 – 1948 г. – периодът, в който българската литература заговори на друг език (фрагменти от медийния и публичния дискурс)

Author(s): Mihaela Ilieva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The report traces the period 1944 – 1948, during which the war for the freedom and independence of Bulgarian literature was fought. On the one side are the progressive writers from the “Literature Front”, “Otechestven Front” and “Rabotnichesko Delo” newspapers, and on the other - the authors from the opposition “Zname”, “Svoboden Narod” and “Narodno Zemedelsko Zname”. The representatives of the two fronts speak different languages, and gradually the opposition voices are silenced. The official language for the period 1944 – 1989 – the language of socialist realism, was introduced.

In memoriam Ото Кронщайнер

Author(s): Kazimir Popkonstantinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 47/2023

In memoriam Сирма Данова

Author(s): Anna Alexieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 47/2023

LA DOULEUR DANS MÉMORIAL POÉTIQUE (1945-1972) DE LUBOMIR GUENTCHEV

Author(s): Alain Vuillemin / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

In Mémorial poétique, Lubomir Guentchev, a French-speaking Bulgarian author, states that “poetry [...] has experienced much more pain than joy” (our translation). Pain could be said to be the main source of his inspiration. This collection has as dedication "In memory of V.", Valentina Dimitrova Guitcheva, a young woman with whom he was allegedly deeply in love and who had disappeared in 1946. This grief was overwhelming. In 1975, at the end of Mémorial poétique, Eucharistia, a prose poem, recalls the memory. A bond of sacred communion existed between Valentina's memory and the author's "inner self". He was convinced of that. He transposes this suffering into Mémorial poétique, turning it into art. How does he do that? How does he transform this pain? What literary models is he inspired by? What aesthetic research does he also engage in?