Dream and reality in the short prose of the ’60s  (Dumitru Ţepeneag and Vasil Popov) Cover Image

Сън и реалност в късата проза от 60-те години (Думитру Цепеняг и Васил Попов)
Dream and reality in the short prose of the ’60s (Dumitru Ţepeneag and Vasil Popov)

Author(s): Ivan Stankov
Subject(s): Social history, Comparative Study of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Romanian Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: the ’50s; the ’60s; socialist realism; relativity; time; space; objectivism; subjectivism; Einstein; quantum physics; monumentalism; Marxism;

Summary/Abstract: The basic idea of this paper consists in the fact that the interesting phenomena that happen in the literature during the ’60s are inspired by the Einstein’s Relativity Theory which imposes itself upon the space of the socialist culture. The boundaries between reality and non-reality, between dream and real life melt altogether. In literature the world, as a whole, becomes radically subjective, opposing thus to the monumentalism of the ’50s. We illustrate with examples from the works of the Romanian writer Dumitru Ţepeneag and from these of the Bulgarian writer Vasil Popov.

  • Issue Year: XLVI/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 165-168
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Bulgarian