Year LXVII, Issue 2, 2025<<Archive>>
Litеrаturе
TELEMACHIA: THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE ON THE MYTH OF ODYSSEUS
How does the most Odyssean Greek hero become a figure of the native in the Bulgarian version? Through the metaphor of Telemachia, the paper examines how post-1989 intellectuals have redefined the interplay between domestic and cosmopolitan tendencies in our na...
return, repetition, national exoticism, idyllic discourse, world literature, Orpheus, vale culture
SIX THESES ON TWO CONTEMPORARY LITERARY HISTORIES
The article mainly examines two three-volume literary-historical works – “Bulgarian Literature from the Liberation to the First World War” by Milena Kirova and “Literacy and Literature in Bulgaria IX – XXI Century” by Valeri Stefanov et. al., including two mor...
contemporary literary-historical studies; models for their construction; traditions and innovations
THE SHIRT AND DEATH
A good starting point for considering the connection between the shirt/clothing and the public presence of the human body is the pre-funeral care of the dead in Bulgarian folk culture. As an attribute of ritualized activity, the shirt can be perceived not only...
folklore; Bulgarian Renaissance; funeral; shirt; nudity; white; body
THE WRITERS’ MEMOIR OF YORDAN YOVKOV – VARIOUS REMEMBRANCES
The text chronologically traces the accumulation of writers’ memory about Yordan Yovkov within more than forty years. Conclusions have been derived about the dynamics in the construction of this memory with regards to the political context in Bulgaria during t...
writer’s memoir; memory; literary history; Bulgarian literature of the twentieth century; Yordan Yovkov