Детињство у периоду социјализама у Бугарској сагледано путем књижевних дела
The Past of the Socialist Childhood through the Lens of the Bulgarian Literature

Summary/Abstract: The Childhood during the State­socialist Bulgaria is thematized in a plethora of novels and auto­fictional literature, published in the last three decades. Many of these works pose the question “Is the past of my own childhood a ‘foreign country’ for me”? This is a question very close to the anthropological one: “Could we know and understand our own (childhood’s) past as insiders?” In this paper I will take a close look at the presentations of the Socialist Childhood in some popular Bulgarian novels, written after the Fall of Communism by authors belonging to different generations. I will discuss them from an anthropological perspective. How this past is presented, reflected, and as such – becomes an important part of the cultural memory about the Bulgarian State Socialism, is the main research question of this paper.

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