Article discusses the thesis of the novel character of Bai Ganyu, one of the most mysterious works in Bulgarian literature, which is commonly read as a cyclic collection of short stories/fеuilletons. Here the novel-epic potential in the work is argued mainly in the “vertical“, historicalgenealogical aspect, in the traditions of romance. In parallel, the article included in the theoretical debate on the essence of the novel genre in general, using some ideas of Russian formalism, in particular V. Shklovsky.
Novel-epic potential of “Baj Ganyu”
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- NAME: Plamen Antov
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INSTITUTIONInstitute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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COUNTRYBulgaria
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PLAMEN ANTOV (1964). Prof. DSc, Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, poet, writer. Author of more than 200 scientific publications and several monographic studies: on Bulgarian postmodernism (2010, 2016), Yavorov and Botev (2009), Emilian Stanev and Martin Heidegger (2019–21), „До Чикаго и назад” [To Chicago and Back] and Bai Ganyu (2021), the Bulgarian Revival and Western Modernity (2024), as well as 15 books of poetry, short stories, plays and fragments. Compiler of the scientific collections: „Америките ни 1: Южна Америка и българската литература, български следи в Латинска Америка” [Our Americas 1: South America and Bulgarian Literature, Bulgarian Traces in Latin America] (2015), „Америките ни 2: САЩ като метафора на модерността. Българо-американски отражения (ХХ–ХХІ в.)” [Our Americas 2: The USA as a metaphor of modernity. Bulgarian-American Reflections (19th–20th Centuries)] (2017), „Магическият реализъм” / Magical Realism (2019). Winner of national awards for poetry, drama and essay prose.
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