Elena Borisova

The study, in the first place, outlines the literary-historical context at the beginning of the 20th century in Bulgaria; provokes the first serious creative impulses in the field of Bulgarian children‘s and adolescent science fiction. Тhe study marks scientific and technical achievements and ideas which are important for bringing out the prognostic elements of science fiction and its educational role – to reveal not only the wonders of science, but to emphasize the attention and the responsibility that human being assumes (or not) for each new discovery. In the second and third part of the study, it examines the works of Emil Koralov and Elin Pelin. These texts are not just fundamental for the emergence and development of Bulgarian children‘s and adolescent science fiction, but also for tracing the progress/evolution of the fantastic image from the fairy tales to the science fiction, their convergence, through the texts of the authors.

The Article emphasizes the image of the mother and motherhood in the context of Bulgarian prose after 2000, realized verry extream and painfuly manifested in that kind of works. Locked up in the poisonous circle of “the heardity of trauma“ the woman in this works tries to get over the “mother matrix“, because she is burn with it. The selected works are representative of the visualization of the so called “female perversion“ and one of the forms of its manifestation is “perverted motherhood“.