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The paper deals with reviews of novel “Lavina” by Blaga Dimitrova. It focuses on the different critical strategies concerning interpretations of the book that outline the view of the whole criticism tradition in that period.
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This article suggests an attempt for analysis of the famous literary work by Ilia Volen. Its aim is the interpretation of the inner state and psychology of the main character – the former priest Nikolay Nazarov, - that is tragically split between humility and theomachy. His own inner contradictions and his relationships with relatives (his wife Johna, their son Stephan) and especially with God are also studied. Stephan’s death appears to be a crucial moment in the development of the plot because it becomes a reason for change of Nazarov’s view about life and radical transformation of his attitude towards the religion.
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The text focuses on the politics of self-fashioning and the strategies for constructing of the autobiographical self in memoir literature, written by Bogomil Raynov, key figure in Bulgarian intellectual life during the socialist period. Raynov creates a character, who influences the establishment of tendencies, the opinions of some specific political figures and some concrete forms of party politics from a position, set in a complex relation to the official “seat” of power, thus having not really ideological, yet still authoritative place in the formation of the aesthetics and politics of the period. The analysis attempts to show that the reflexive self-fashioning of the intellectual in a situation of a repressive regime, done in the context of an always selective life-narrative, relies on diverse strategies for legitimizing of an image of life, in which the integrity of the subject is impossible.
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The article studies the poet Ivan Metodiev’s magazine, named Nava as an essential conceptual attempt to understand the world, time and poetry from a point of view which was new to Bulgarian literature – on the borderline between Eastern and natural philosophy and Wittgenstein’s analytic philosophy. Apart from the relation with the eastern forms, these short fragments are rooted in the ancient cultural traditions in Bulgaria. This philosophy of history has its own cosmogony and bears a great deal of positivism.
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The play “The trial against the Bogomils” by Stefan Tsanev went out in a typewritten form in 1969 and has not been on Bulgarian stage at the time. The reason is that the party circles at that time perceive the text as an allegory of the political reality of the 60’s in Bulgaria and in the prototypes of the characters they see the authority – `The first` (Todor Zhivkov) and the `Princess` (Lyudmila Zhivkova). In reality, the play turns out not as a ‘hystorical tragedy’, as its author represents it, but rather as a parody of the theater of power. The playwright achieves this effect by means of pictures, revealing the theatricality of the different forms of social life (‘the theatre’ of the court, of history, of the royal institution). The ideology of the Bogomil religious (and the alongside passed parallel with the communism) is strongly and sarcastically diminished by the elements of commedia dell ’arte, burlesque and commedia fool, used in the play.
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This article presents the struggle for spiritual survival in the book of poetry “Cry from the Prison” of the poet Joseph Petrov created in captivity during the writer's stay in the Belene concentration camp. Writing camp poetry is not only a protest against violence and acts of dehumanization, but also a process of purification and recovery from the suffered humiliation. The text focuses on the power of the speech, which on one hand causes the imprisonment of the artist, but on the other hand relieves his suffering. Poetry is a kind of self-communication which combines the memories, the imaginary world of the character and the surrounding reality through which the author overcomes the boundaries of the "spiritual" prison. In this sense, the very act of creation is an attempt to preserve his spirit and identity and serves a specific verbal revenge over the torturers. Popularization of the Bulgarian camp poetry will help for a better understanding of the socialist period.
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War has left its mark on Colonel B, one of the characters of the short story „After the Ball” written by Leo Tolstoy. But it has changed the life of the protagonist, Ivan Vasilievich, as well.
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This paper provides a short review of the novels of Miroslav Krleža and Karel Čapek. The paper interprets the philosophical ideas in the novels Banquet in Blitva and War with Newts.
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The combination of dream and mystery in Turgenev's works appears to reveal accurately and genuinely the psychological nature of the character. This report analyzes the sleep in four mysterious stories of the Russian author. The realization of the inner world of the character becomes a source of mysterious elements and images.
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Saint Sabbas the Sanctified has been considered one of founders of Christian monasticism. His monastery, called the Great Lavra and located near Jerusalem, played important role in the creation of the liturgical texts and particularly the Typikon in Byzantium. There are two extensive vitae of the saint written in Greek by Symeon Metaphrastes and Cyril of Scythopolis, which were translated and disseminated in medieval Slavonic manuscripts. The purpose of this research is to review the rules of life in the Great Lavra, early monasticism and the life of the monk St. Sabbas.
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This article studies the biographical aspects of the poem „Visiting my Home Paper Mill”. It reviews several versions of the poem and compares them. The action in the poem is followed chronologically and sequentially. The study aims at proving that Binyo Ivanov's poetry often contains references to his own life and if it is interpreted through this prism, it would become more clear and understandable.
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This paper studies the literary tales of Vesa Paspaleeva between the two world wars. Her original tales, which have features of her individual style, are reviewed. The paper is an attempt to identify certain thematic and storytelling features and provide comments of the paratext of these works.
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The interrelation between space and text in this semantic research is represented in the way how the real architectural space has been transformed in literature to form a specific mythopoetic chronotop. The outlined conceptual elements are juxtaposed to Joseph Brodsky's prose, where the specific features of the city as chronotop have been reviewed focusing on the metaphysical images of Leningrad/Petersburg, Venice and New York.
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The article examines the issues of literary mystification and it focuses in particular on the issue of the authorship of the book of poetry „Slogans” by Maria Sudaeva.
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The purpose of this study is to develop psychoanalytic mechanism of the act of separation of the individual and formation of the Doppelganger. The study uses Freud’s concept of splitting of the ego as it is related to the concepts of introjection and projection. Тhe analysis of the story of Edgar Allan Poe „William Wilson” presents a theoretical model of the function and image of the Doppelganger.
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This paper studies two modernistic poems – „Zatochenici” (P. Yavorov) and „Septemvri” (Geo Milev). Some relations between the two poems are shown: their connections with certain historical event, the crash of the national ideal for unity, the journey – by boat in „Zatochenici” and from night to dawn in „Septemvri”, the concept of the mother land, the lost paradise and the paradise on Earth.The conclusion shows how in a work known as a patriotic poem we find symbols of modernism and in a modernistic poem we find symbols of Bulgarian cultural history.
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The relationship between the village and the city as literary subjects in the works of Ivan Vazov, Mihalaki Georgiev, Stamatov, Todor Vlaykov, Georgi Raychev, Anton Strashimirov for the most part acquires an adversative nature. The parameters of this opposition could be found in the separate areas of the lives of the citizen and the villager: the toponymic system, the types of contact in the village and the city, the problem of labor in both social structures etc. The subject of suffering of the patriarchal man and the citizen reveals a specific relevance between the two social structures (village, city), which is characterized by blurring the borders of the opposition between them, erasing the contrasts, and re-conciliating the characters of the villager and the citizen in one collective persona of the suffering man.
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This paper focuses mainly on how Bulgaria is described and how the Bulgarian national character is presented in the novel „Apostoloff” by German author of Bulgarian origin Sybille Lewitscharoff. Our main goal is to study which specific segments of Bulgarian reality are selected and how they are relevant to the personal memories of the narrator. We will also analyze the artistic resources, which contribute to the construction of foreignness in the image of the Bulgarian.
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The text reflects on the image of feminism in the media after 1989 in Czech republic. Focuses on fact that feminists should strive to co-create the content of media messages and also should strive to cultivate the media industry and the wider environment in which media staff operate.
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