TRAVELING IN THE DIRECTION OF NOVEL AND HISTORY – TEN YEARS LATER
The “postmodern conceptual project” in contemporary Bulgarian literature chalked up an undisputed paragon of the genre with the publication of Iana Boukova’s novel Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow in 2009. But it was in 2014 with its reception and readerly success following the second edition of the novel that its literary critical value became apparent. The fiction dismantles ideological constructs of the historical metanarrative and rebuilds the authenticity of the pre-Revival by restoring its micro-narratives. By making use of postmodern compositional techniques and intertextuality, it offers a reinterpretation of the historical realia and the figure of the narrator.
TRAVELING IN THE DIRECTION OF NOVEL AND HISTORY – TEN YEARS LATER
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Maya Gorcheva
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- University of Library Studies and Information Technologies
- Bulgaria
Maya Gorcheva is a literary historian and Associate Professor at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (UniBIT), where she lectures on European culture and the sociology of literature. Her research interests encompass modern literature and culture, comparative literature and translation studies, and textual criticism. She is the author of over one hundred articles and studies, as well as nine monographs, including "Between Text and Quotation" (2004), "The Metamorphoses of the Modern Soul" (2006), "The Delicate Moods of Boris Aprilov" (2013), "New Bulgarian Books: The Success of Inhabitation" (2014), and "Albert Camus: The Possible Worlds of Literature" (2022). She is an editor and a translator of fiction and literary theory from French into Bulgarian, as well as a member of the Bulgarian section of the Academic Circle for Comparative Literature (ACCL / АКСЛИТ).
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Abstract:The “postmodern conceptual project” in contemporary Bulgarian literature chalked up an undisputed paragon of the genre with the publication of Iana Boukova’s novel Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow in 2009. But it was in 2014 with its reception and readerly success following the second edition of the novel that its literary critical value became apparent. The fiction dismantles ideological constructs of the historical metanarrative and rebuilds the authenticity of the pre-Revival by restoring its micro-narratives. By making use of postmodern compositional techniques and intertextuality, it offers a reinterpretation of the historical realia and the figure of the narrator.
Keywords: literature history Novel of History experimental novel postmodern conceptual project pre-Revival history Yana Bukova
