Hristo Manolakev

Hristo Manolakev, Prof. DSc.
  • NAME: Hristo Manolakev
  • INVERSION
    Manolakev, Hristo
  • E-MAIL
    [email protected]
  • INSTITUTION
    University of Veliko Tarnovo “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” – branch Vratsa 2, Theodosiy Тarnovski str, Veliko Tarnovo 5003, Bulgaria; Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • COUNTRY
    Bulgaria

  • Hristo Manolakev is a Full Professor, D.Sc. (Doctor of Philological Sciences), holding academic positions at both the Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo. His research focuses on the history and poetics of 19th-century Russian literature, Bulgarian National Revival literature, Bulgarian-Russian literary relations from the 18th to the 20th century, and the history of Russian literary emigration to Bulgaria (1920–1940).

    Monographs and Books:

    • "Between Image and Reading (Russian Translated Fiction During the Bulgarian National Revival)" (Sofia, 1996)
    • "Text and Boundaries: A. S. Pushkin and His 'The Tales of Belkin'" (Sofia, 2001)
    • "Griboyedov–Gogol–Dostoevsky: (Typology and Hermeneutics of the Word)" (Veliko Tarnovo, 2011)
    • "The Russian Novel of the Second Half of the 19th Century (Educational Textbook)" (2016)
    • "Word and Body: From the History and Hermeneutics of the 19th-Century Russian Literary Canon" (2017)

08/06/2026

• pp. 197-208
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.66260/18121812
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ISSN 2738-7631 (Print) • ISSN 2815-2999 (Online) • Institute for Literature

CRITICAL REMARCS ON THE CONCEPT OF THE ODESA LITERARY CIRCLE

  • ABSTRACT

    The text sets forth a critique of the concept of the Odesa Literary Circle, which has been widely employed in studies of the Bulgarian National Revival literature to typologically characterise the intellectual life of Bulgarians studying in Odesa during the 1840s. It reexamines the literary careers of Dimitar Mutev, Elena Muteva, Nayden Gerov and Dobri Chintulov and suggests that there is insufficient factual evidence to substantiate the relevance of the two main components underlying this concept: organised literary life and literariness.

    Subject: We for Others and for Ourselves
    Keywords: Odesa Literary Circle Dimitar Mutev Elena Muteva Nayden Gerov Dr. Krastev Dobri Chintulov
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