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
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Language:VOLUME/ISSUE: КНИГА 1ISSN (Print): 2738-7631ISSN (Online): 2815-2999PUBLISHED ON: -
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Plamen Antov
Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BulgariaORCID: 0000-0002-7156-7536PLAMEN ANTOV (1964). Prof. DSc, Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, poet, writer. Author of more than 200 scientific publications and several monographic studies: on Bulgarian postmodernism (2010, 2016), Yavorov and Botev (2009), Emilian Stanev and Martin Heidegger (2019–21), „До Чикаго и назад” [To Chicago and Back] and Bai Ganyu (2021), the Bulgarian Revival and Western Modernity (2024), as well as 15 books of poetry, short stories, plays and fragments. Compiler of the scientific collections: „Америките ни 1: Южна Америка и българската литература, български следи в Латинска Америка” [Our Americas 1: South America and Bulgarian Literature, Bulgarian Traces in Latin America] (2015), „Америките ни 2: САЩ като метафора на модерността. Българо-американски отражения (ХХ–ХХІ в.)” [Our Americas 2: The USA as a metaphor of modernity. Bulgarian-American Reflections (19th–20th Centuries)] (2017), „Магическият реализъм” / Magical Realism (2019). Winner of national awards for poetry, drama and essay prose.
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Abstract:ABSTRACTThe 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’...
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