БОРИС ХРИСТОВ, БОХУМИЛ ХРАБАЛ И ПРОБЛЕМЪТ ЗА ВИСОКОТО И НИСКОТО
BORIS HRISTOV, BOHUMIL HRABAL AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE HIGH AND THE LOW

Summary/Abstract: This text considers the problem of the high and the low in preapocalyptic totalitarian reality and sanity as a counterpoint of the norm as presented in three unofficial novels written by Boris Hristov and Bohumil Hrabal during communism in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Too Loud a Solitude by Hrabal and Livor mortis and The Blind Dog by Hristov depict the outsiders and marginals who put the socialist vision of normality in doubt. The novels expose the problems of freedom, sanity, wisdom, death, social unification and the annihilation of individuality.

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