българска възрожденска поезия

The article examines the satirical poetry of Petar Dimitrov Protich, which fits into the ideas of the Bulgarian Revival, affirming the Bulgarian identity and opposing “the own” to “the other”. The main themes in his poetry are knowledge, education and the role of the scholar and intellectual in social development. Through his work P. Protich criticizes the Hellenophilia among the Bulgarians and other Balkan peoples in the 19th century, ridicules the uncritical attitude towards Greek influences, and also the object of his satirical pen are folk superstitions and ignorance. Some of his most emblematic foreign- language works, which have not yet been translated into Bulgarian (except “Η Γραικομανία”, translated by Afr. Alexieva), are “La voix de la Bulgaria”, “Ο Εξελληνισμός”, “Le turcoman”, “Le passage du Danube”, “To the right hon. W. E. Gladstone, M. P.”, “Le repatrié”. The social and ideological line, the vivid portrayal of the Balkan syndrome in the poems of the Greek graduate to some extent at the expense of their literary merits. The notion of the “other” in the satirical poems of Petar Protich comes close to the massively embodied negative image in the artistic, historical and journalistic texts of the Bulgarian 19th century.

The paper examines the mediating role of Bulgarian Revival literature conserning the relationship between man and God and the function of its religious imagery, themes and motifs. Attention is paid to the broad biblical basis of genres, texts, paratexts; of morally instructive elements in works different in content and style. The active use of biblical models and motifs, visible throughout the whole period, is traced, as well as their restructuring that had began. Significant names that set the parameters of the National Revival and their spiritual mission to revive Bulgarian literature and culture and integrate them into the European one are also mentioned.