За ранните преводи на разказите на Йордан Йовков и тяхната рецепция в полския културен контекст

Author(s): Galia Simeonova-Konach / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

This article is devoted to the first translations of Yordan Yovkov's stories in Poland and some problems related to the reception of translated literature in a foreign cultural environment. The works of the Bulgarian writer in the mentioned period were published in Polish magazines with an orientation towards the so-called women's topics. Their literary supplements published novels and short stories by the world's most famous authors at the time and were intended for adherents of women's emancipation, with broad intellectual horizons and good literary taste. The choice of specific works by Yordan Yovkov makes it possible to assess the literary reception and the dominant aesthetic norms in the host culture and literature. The article also analyzes the issues of language and poetics of the text, as well as the attempts of several generations of Polish translators to "overcome" the difficulties of the style and poetics of Yovkov's work.

Закъснелият Кафка

Влашки, М. (2020). Рецепцията на Кафка в България до 1989 г. Пловдив: Сдружение Литературна къща (Страница). 192 стр.

Author(s): Maya Razboynikova-Frateva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

In "Kafka's Reception in Bulgaria until 1989" Mladen Vlashki combines the modern theory of cultural transfer with the sociological theories of the field and with the system theory. The monograph presents the most essential characteristic of the writer's work, against the background of which the hypothesis of future difficulties in front of Kafka's reception in view of the literary field in Bulgaria acquires density. A solid reconstruction of the trajectories of Kafka's reception in France, England and the United States has been made, which imposes it as a classic of modernity. Compared to the reception in other socialist countries and in the context of the Cold War, additional factors determining the Bulgarian reactions are revealed. Emphasis is placed on the "cases" Minko Nikolov and Dimitar Stoevski.

Интертекстуални мотивни гнезда при интерпретация на темата „Обществото и Властта“ от учебното съдържание по литература за XI клас

общозадължителна и профилирана подготовка, модул „Диалогични прочити“

Author(s): Stefka Karaivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

This article aims to interpret the intertextual motive nests on the Society and Government topic – part of the curriculum in literature for 11th grade, combining texts from compulsory and specialized training, module Dialogic Readings. The artistic interactions between the literary texts included in the curriculum and those that are outside it are considered in order to highlight the dialogic nature of literature as a special type of cultural significance. Based on the specific interpretive commentary are highlighted the leading problem-thematic lines, which would become the basis for effective educational work.

Красотата като автентичност и автентичността като красота в разказите на Николай Хайтов

Author(s): Nikolay Turlakov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

In this article, I examine some philosophical intuitions and existential motives in the descriptions of the beautiful in the stories of Nikolay Haitov. When Haitov asks what the "soul” of our language is, “its beauty", he does not give an explicit answer, but simply describes the beauty he sees in the richness of the Bulgarian language. If the beauty of language, which has found expression in folk songs and stories, implies the gift of unknown "talented masters", bards and story tellers, then, for its part, this beauty lasts only insofar as it is daily revived and shared in people’s soul. The soul wants a soul. Haitov's stories are valuable from a philosophical point of view, because they show the primordial and inseparable connection of beauty and language – the sense of beauty is cultivated as an experience in language. And then any masterly artistic description of the beautiful can be considered as a kind of reciprocal relation of language to the sense of the beautiful, in which the latter is enriched and constructed as taste.

Крилати фрази за хора, на които не им се отваря парашутът

Author(s): Nikolay Genov,Iliya Tochev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1 (13)/2021

Към историята на Българското радио като културна сила: върху ранната музикална журналистика - музикално просветителство и приложна народоука

Author(s): Ventsislav Dimov,Ventsislav Dimov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2021

The study presents the contributions of Raina Katsarova (1901-1984) - one of the pioneers in establishing the Bulgarian traditional music in the first specializated music programs on Rodno Radio and Radio Sofia. It presents a researcher with experience in field work and thousands of recordings of traditional music, with publications of song collections and academic works, but also a citizen, cultural figure, public activist, media figure. The activities of Raina Katsarova as an educator, music journalist and media critic are discussed; her talks and song tales on the radio; her activities in defense of faith and rituals in the media of totalitarian Bulgaria; her role in publicizing Bulgarian traditional music on air around the world as an ambassador of Bulgarian culture, folklore and science. It is concluded that the traces of her activity in the media cover the history of Bulgarian radio, understood in the middle of the twentieth century as a public good and cultural force. It is clear to everyone that music on the radio matters. Raina Katsarova's radio appearances show how ethnomusicology is also important in and for radio.

Левски, клирът и християнството – възможният дискурс

Author(s): Goran Blagoev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The essay attempts to juxtapose and analyze the divergent and often contradictory stories accompanying Vasil Kunchev’s path into and out of monasticism, his subsequent religiosity, and his Christian consciousness. It outlines the image of a man experiencing doubts and inner conflicts but preserving his faith. His letters and proclamations clearly reveal how the knowledge of Christianity he had received and his life of faith shaped his revolutionary philosophy.

Левски: канонизацията

Author(s): Lyudmil Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The text attempts to reconstruct the beginning of the Bulgarian heroic epic. The author believes that the structure of the author‘s epic was invented by Hristo Botev and was later extended by Ivan Vazov. Vasil Levski‘s figure is met in both poets, but while Vazov writes the live of the Deacon like a saint, Botev carries out his literary canonization according to all ritual procedures and turns it into the Bulgarian Jesus.

Лиляна Деянова и градините на паметта

Приятели и колеги около юбилейния сборник „Време и памет“

Author(s): Zhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2021

In the end of September 2021 one of the celebrations of the academic community took place – colleagues and friends congratulated prof. Lilyana Deyanova with the publishing of the anniversary anthology ‘Time and Memory’. Compilers and organizers of the academic celebration are Maya Grekova, Petya Kabakchieva, Momchil Hristov, Milena Yakimova.

Литература, написана от българи в чужди страни през първите две десетилетия на XXI век

Author(s): Milena Kirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

The article provides a panoramic overview of novels written in the first two decades of the 21st century by authors of Bulgarian origin who live abroad. At the start, the article discusses various choices of defining this literature: from emigrant (an already inappropriate term) through immigrant and migrant – to anew term proposed by Steven Kellman, translingual literature. Then, based on extensive information on dozens of authors and works from different countries across the world, a thematic typology is brought forth. It includes such strandsas “our totalitarian past”, Bulgaria today, immigrant life from within, novels with ecological themes, fantasy reads. The article highlights specific approaches that dominate the works of authors with Bulgarian roots: autofiction, social satire, political grotesque, etc. It concludes with a summary of the presence, the preferences, and the achievements of these authors.

Литературно наследство и музеи в съвременна България

Author(s): Vera Boneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

The article interprets the scientific category „literary heritage“ in the logic of Bulgarian legislation and current social reality. The connections between literary heritage and museums are outlined. The narrow meaning of the category is represented mainly by the activities of literary museums. Other institutional spaces have been pointed out, which take care of the artifacts of the literary tradition –archives, libraries, community centers, universities, and research organizations. In conclusion, a concept for defragmenting the structures and activities preserving the literary heritage has been formulated. The key factor in this case are the activities of the National Literary Museum.

ЛЪВСКОТО ДРУЖЕСТВО В РИМСКОТО ПРАВО

Author(s): Stoyan Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The article discusses the origin and meaning of the notion and the term leonine partnership, as well as the problems associated with the distribution of profits and losses between the partners in the consensual contract for partnership in Roman law. The fragment from the Digests of Justinian where actually is the unique mention of the expression societas leonina and this form of partnership is defined by the Romal classical jurist Cassius is subjected to a legal-dogmatic and linguistic analysis. The fable of Phaedrus for the partnership between a lion, a goat, a cow and a patient sheep which is considered to be the original source, used for forming the concept of the leonine partnership in Roman legal thought is completely analysed and interpreted. The author paid special attention to the magna questio (the great discussion) among Roman jurisprudence, dating from the period of the end of the Roman Republic with some projections and in the classical period in connection with the distribution of profits and losses in the consensual contract of partnership as a result of the partnership`s activity. And on the other hand the article examines the problem about the existence of privileges or restrictions for certain partners regarding the profits and analysis of the two leading opinions on the subject through the exegesis of a fragment of the Institutions of Gaius.

Най-добрият опит „Oпит за история…“ на д-р Симеон Табаков да стигне до своите съвременни читатели

Табаков, С., 2020. Опит за история на град Сливен, Т. I (трето издание), София: БАРАКА, 732 стр.

Author(s): Ivan Rusev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2021

Tabakov, S., 2020. Opit za istoria na grad Sliven, Vol. I (third edition), Sofia:BARAKA, pp. 732

Най-старата история на славяните в ранните трудове на Павел Йозеф Шафарик

Author(s): Peter Podolan / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5-6/2015

The article presents the historical elements in the early works of the Slovak Paul Joseph Šafarik, well known for his Slavic studies. It starts with the educational background of the scientist, based on classical philology and literature and the influences he experienced in his youth, and then evaluates his first poetical attempts. The main analysis is centred on the first scientific work of Šafarik on Slavic literature, published in 1826 with special emphasis on its historical part.

Научен отзив за Кръглата маса на тема: Образи на прехода: кино, театър и визуални изкуства

Author(s): Elena Fuchedzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2021

How do different arts - cinema, theater, literature, music - tell the story of the transition to democratization? This was the main topic discussed at a Round Table, held in the end of September at G8 Cinema by researchers for the project ‘The Transition after 1989 - Interpretations of Historical Change, Social Experience and Cultural Memory in Contemporary Bulgarian Literature’. The cultural heritage of Transition was at the center of discussions about the memory, the clash between the image of freedom and the market mechanisms of governing culture and art and the role of the media.

Не заради човека, а заради ползата – литературното образование в риск

Author(s): Natalia Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

Drawing on the research of Martha Nussbaum, the article focuses on the “devastating” crisis experienced by modern education systems entailing their consistent subordination to the dominant economic logic and the resulting neglect of the literature and humanities in the school curricula. According to Nussbaum, should this trend continue to prevail, very soon the education systems will be simply producing generations of efficient machines incapable of human empathy and devoid of any critical reflection. Literary education, Nussbaum emphasizes, can not only help cultivate empathy and humane attitude towards the other, but also become one of the main factors in developing these traits. Stimulating the active emotions and imagination of the children, literature encourages them to think about others, about strangers with whom their real life experience will not give them the opportunity to meet. Reading literature helps one to build an inner intuition for the common human vulnerability, and thus counteracts the temptation to respond to human imperfections and weakness by pursuing total control.

Неразбираемите скиталчества на душата

Author(s): Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The article focuses on two texts by the remarkable Balkan writer, Dubravka Ugrešić, in which she introduces questions of emigration, identity, belonging to the nation, the community, as well as questions such as what it is like to be a writer writing in a small language, is there hope for the literature written in Slavic languages, how resistance makes sense in a world where the ability to adapt is everything. Among the non-hypocritical messages of Dubravka Ugrešić's novels there is one that states we must learn to live with bitterness and deceit in a world where the best thing one can hope to leave behind is but a footnote to earn his ticket to eternity . The narrator in Ugrešić's texts is the eternal emigrant crossing different worlds, an image of the unloved, lonely, space-traveling storyteller who may have nothing else but his thousand and one stories, and the exact words that might save someone

НОВА ЛИТЕРАТУРНА АНТОЛОГИЯ

Author(s): Cvetana Staykova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Нови издания за Апостола, реализирани от Националния музей „Васил Левски“

Author(s): Dora Chausheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The current publication presents the activity of the Vasil Levski National Museum aimed at achieving two important tasks.The first task is the formation of a truthful idea of the personality of Vasil Levski in the youngest visitors of the museum, aimed at creating a sound basis for the development of further knowledge of his personality and his role in Bulgarian history. This task is being realized by two books targeted at children and pupils, producedby the museum, as well as the work of the museum’s children center. The second task is popularizing the personality of Vasil Levski as one of the greatest European revolutionaries of the 19th century among the international audience.The emphasis here are two museum editions – a book for Levski translated in eight languages and a book (in Bulgarian only) about the greatest European revolutionaries and thinkers among his contemporaries, at the time when he lived and fought for Bulgarian freedom and for his democratic ideas.

ОБРАЗЪТ НА ЦЪРКВАТА В БЪЛГАРСКАТА ПРОЗА ОТ ОСВОБОЖДЕНИЕТО ДО КРАЯ НА ПЪРВАТА СВЕТОВНА ВОЙНА. РЕЛИГИОЗНОСТ И ПАТРИАРХАЛНОСТ – АВТЕНТИЧНАТА ДУХОВНОСТ НА БЪЛГАРИНА, ВЯРНОСТ КЪМ ТРАДИЦИЯТА И ОБИЧАЯ

Author(s): Daniela Belichovska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2022

The image of the church, presented in history and sociology, is of an institution, a supporter of patriarchal morality, which is of key importance for the preservation of Bulgarian identity. Religion and traditions preserved the memories of our past greatness and independence. During this period, the church became a key factor in preserving our national identity. The question of the religious psyche of the Bulgarian villager has been studied by most historians, many of whom believe that the patriarchal man is self-aware as directly connected with tradition and customs, his spirituality is a consequence of this relation.