The article addresses the period from the end of 1944 and the beginning of 1945 and focuses on the historical events impact on the fate of people from different social layers, as this reflection is recreated in the novels War by Yana Yazova and The Meek by Angel Igov. The central characters’ story in the two novels, who stand on both sides of the line that radically divided Bulgarian society after the Communists took power back on September 9, 1944, is traced. The psycho-emotional profiles of the characters and the narrative strategies, that are used to motivate their personal behavior, are analyzed. The characters’ fate is the basis on which readers are left to value the historical events. The article also emphasizes the narrative techniques, which consider the time distance of the writing in relation to the depicted events, so that the historical narrative is as close as possible to the truth.
THE MAN BETWEEN HISTORICAL VICISSITUDES AND PERSONAL CHOICE (ON TWO NOVELS ABOUT THE NINTH OF SEPTEMBER EVENTS AND AFTER THAT)
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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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