The text announces a literary discovery that for a long time has been waiting for its research scholar – the novel “Peter”, which Konstantin Petkanov wrote in the last years of his life but which remained in a private archive for seventy years, unknown to the public. A manuscript, preserved thanks to the happy circumstance of the long-lasting intellectual dialogue between the writer and his brother, priest Dimitar Petkanov. Today we have the opportunity to read a message of great spiritual merit, whose genre vacillates between the essay and the novel, remaining extremely close to the evangelical text; it is faithful to the very narrative of the New Testament. The author of the above-mentioned text defines K. Petkanov’s work as fiction of the evangelical fact.
The messages of the New Testament in Konstantin Petkanov’s unpublished novel “Peter”
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Maria Ogoyska
New Bulgarian University, BulgariaМария Огойска е доктор по филология, доцент в Департамент „Нова Българистика“ на Нов български университет. Научните и изследователските й интереси са в областите: християнска култура и литература, възрожденска история и култура, съвременна есеистика и др. Автор е на книгите: „Прочити върху християнския дух на българската литература“ (2017), „Словото в светогорската живопис на Захарий Зограф“ (2014), „Междуписания. Захарий Зограф – о. Неофит Рилски“ (2010). Съставител, автор и редактор е на списание „Демократически преглед“, на Годишника на Департамент „Нова българистика“, на еднократни литературни листове и др.
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Abstract:ABSTRACTThe text announces a literary discovery that for a long time has been waiting for its research scholar – the novel “Peter”, which Konstantin Petkanov wrote in the last years of his life but which remained in a private archive for seventy years, unknown to the public. A manuscript, preserved thanks to the happy circumstance of the long-lasting intellectual dialogue between the writer and his brother, priest Dimitar Petkanov. Today we have the opportunity to read a message of great spiritual merit, whose genre vacillates between the essay and the novel, remaining extremely close to the evangelical text; it is faithful to the very narrative of the New Testament. The author of the above-mentioned text defines K. Petkanov’s work as fiction of the evangelical fact.
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