EMILIAN STANEV―THOMAS MANN: THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO WORKS – BETWEEN THE LITERARY TYPOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL-CIVILIZATIONAL REMAKE

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The article offers a comparative reading of two short novels – “Scott Reynolds and the Unattainable” by Emilian Stanev (1973) and “Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann (1913) – ‘comparative’ primarily on a large cultural-civilizational scale, in which Stanev’s novel raises and further develops the main themes and motifs of Thomas-Man’s one. Namely, the global problem of the end of Western humanistic culture 202under the pressure of modern Technique/Machenschaft (Heidegger), collapsing towards the natural-monstrous. The similar structure and the common symbolic topoi of the two works are considered: ‘old man― child’, ‘North/West―South/East’...


EMILIAN STANEV―THOMAS MANN: THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO WORKS – BETWEEN THE LITERARY TYPOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL-CIVILIZATIONAL REMAKE

  • EMILIAN STANEV―THOMAS MANN: THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO WORKS – BETWEEN THE LITERARY TYPOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL-CIVILIZATIONAL REMAKE
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    • PAGE RANGE: 182 -203
    • PAGE COUNT: 22
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    • VOLUME/ISSUE: КНИГА 1
    • PUBLISHER: PUBLISHING CENTER “BOYAN PENEV”
    • ORGANIZATION: Institute for Literature - BAS, BULGARIA
    • ISSN (Print): 2738-7631 || ISSN (Online): 2815-2999
  • EMILIAN STANEV―THOMAS MANN: THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO WORKS – BETWEEN THE LITERARY TYPOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL-CIVILIZATIONAL REMAKE
    Abstract:

    The article offers a comparative reading of two short novels – “Scott Reynolds and the Unattainable” by Emilian Stanev (1973) and “Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann (1913) – ‘comparative’ primarily on a large cultural-civilizational scale, in which Stanev’s novel raises and further develops the main themes and motifs of Thomas-Man’s one. Namely, the global problem of the end of Western humanistic culture 202under the pressure of modern Technique/Machenschaft (Heidegger), collapsing towards the natural-monstrous. The similar structure and the common symbolic topoi of the two works are considered: ‘old man― child’, ‘North/West―South/East’...

    Subject: From myth to literature
    Keywords: Емилиян Станев, Томас Ман, Фауст, Германия – Италия, Европа – САЩ, култура, варварство, хуманизъм – Machenschaft/Gestell