The article interprets otherness as a distinctive feature of the person, positioning him beyond the scope of the community to which he belongs. That distinction is often behavioural and does not correspond to the moral conven- tions of the social group. It often brings about the rejection of the individual, and dooms him to misunderstanding, aloneness, even death. The following two works of the contemporary Bulgarian literature have been selected for observation: the 125short novel The Barrier by Pavel Vezhinov and the novella “Verse for Her” by Nikolai Vatov. The analytical parallel between the characters in the two lite- rary works has been driven by difference as a viewpoint for their interpretation.
THE DIFFERENT PERSON AND HIS DOOM
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- NAME: Penka Vatova
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INSTITUTIONInstitute of Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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COUNTRYBulgaria
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PENKA VATOVA holds a PhD in Philology and is Associate Professor of New and Contemporary Bulgarian Literature at the Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her scientific research interests focus on the history of the Bulgarian literary periodical press, Bulgarian travel literature and contemporary Bulgarian poetry issues, and the cultural identity of Bulgarians in the diaspora. She is the author of the books Roots and the Crown (Hemus Magazine – Between the Emblems of the Minority and the Marks of Inclusion) (Budapest, 2001; also published in Hungarian: Gyökér és korona. Budapest, 2001) and Identities. Literary and Cultural Images of Identity (Sofia, 2007). She is co-author of the collective monographic study Periodics and Literature. A book for the magazine “Zlatorog” (1920 1943) (Sofia, 2020).
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