Многострадална Парашкева в дебрите на другостта
Anguished Parashkeva in the Abyss of Otherness

Summary/Abstract: In 1934, Nikola Nachov, better known for his research on spiritual centers during the Bulgarian Renaissance, under the pseudonym Nancho Donkin, published the travelogue “To Brusa and Back”, in which he described his journey from Plovdiv, through Edirne and Istanbul, to the Asia Minor city of Bursa in the turbulent year 1879. The specific purpose of the then 19-year-old young man’s trip to the old Ottoman capital was to sell the offices in the commercial inns owned by his father, a famous abadji craftsman who had died suddenly before his birth. During the journey which lasted several months, the son, together with his uncle, went around the city and the surrounding villages to collect his father’s money. Thus, the author founds himself in the village of Susurluk, where a compatriot of his from Kalofer had settled down and lived for some time with his family. The proposed text contains observations on the abyss of otherness in which the completely innocent Parashkeva, the daughter of the family, finds herself.

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