The article is a scrupulous review of the latest book by Assoc. Prof. R. Shivachev Perspectives Towards Early Modernity: Psychologism and Symbolism. Chapter by chapter the main author’s ideas are traced and analyzed. But the article has the ambition to transcend the review genre. By stepping on the concrete subject, the theoretical problem of the relationship between the method and its object is posed: when the method imperceptibly begins to emancipate itself from its object and sounds as an object in itself: the analysis of a certain work as a way to reveal the possibilities of the method. The bottom line: studies like this demonstrate the stand-alone va-lue of literary theory. Stopping it from being a servant of literature, an operational toolkit, and turning into an eim in itself, into full-fledged creativity.
METHOD AND SUBJECT: ROUMEN SHIVACHEV’S LAST BOOK
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- NAME: Plamen Antov
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INSTITUTIONInstitute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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COUNTRYBulgaria
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PLAMEN 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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