Българистиката в университета „Демокрит“ и рецепцията на българската литература в Гърция
Bulgarian Studies at Democritus University and the Reception of Bulgarian Literature in Greece

Summary/Abstract: The problems of reception and translation of Bulgarian literature in Greece, especially regarding their contemporary period of development after the Second World War, are thoroughly and comprehensively addressed by M. Nihoriti in her study “Bulgarian-Greek Literary Relations after the Second World War until the year of 2000”. An explanation for the significantly smaller number of Greek researches on the Bulgarian-Greek cultural and literary exchange can be sought within the relatively late academic development of Slavic studies (in 1926, Departments of Balkan history and Departments of Slavic languages and philologies were established at the newly created University of Thessaloniki), within aspects of the political life after the lowering of the “Iron Curtain” in Europe, but also within factors that determined the Bulgarian-Greek political and diplomatic relations in the long run (related to the theory of J. Ph. Fallmerayer, to the dominance of Megali Idea in the national history of Greece, to the interstate conflicts in the regions of Thrace and Macedonia, etc.). Along with the synthetically presented information about the historical path of translated Bulgarian literature in Greece, the role of Bulgarian studies at the Democritus University of Thrace is outlined. A focus is put on the participation of Associate professor Christina Markou and her students in the processes of modern literary translation in the Balkans.

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