Open AccessHow literature tells the story. Observations on contemporary Bulgarian Bessarabic prose
Author(s) -
Elelbantova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
proglas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2367-8585
pISSN - 0861-7902
DOI - 10.54664/gjwm9965
Subject(s) - bulgarian , depiction , interpretation (philosophy) , context (archaeology) , literature , history , narrative , pessimism , ideology , geopolitics , period (music) , aesthetics , art , philosophy , political science , linguistics , epistemology , law , politics , archaeology
This article discusses fiction novels that have been written in Bulgarian since the 1960s by Bessarabian Bulgarians, focusing on topics related to the life of Bulgarian expats in Bessarabia. The Bulgarian Bessarabian literature from this period is defined as contemporary. This article reconstructs the historical context as interpreted in two different ways: as events that found their way into the narratives, and as circumstances, which enforced both the selection of topics and their interpretation, and at the same time the literary canon that shaped the texts. The article concludes that the depiction of historical events in the novels of P.Trufkin, P. Burlak-Valkanov, Iv. Valkov, Il. Valkov, I. Nenov, A. Maleshkova and N. Kurtev conforms to extraliterary factors: ideology, geopolitical interests of neighboring countries, civilizational pessimism.