Функции на събитийността в разказите на Светослав Минков
Functions of Eventfulness in Svetoslav Minkov’s Short Stories

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of this paper is understanding the event as a part which organizes the totality of a narrative. The object of examination are the short stories by Svetoslav Minkov ‘Monkey’s Youth’ („Маймунска младост“), ‘The Man Who Came from America’ („Човекът, който дойде от Америка“), ‘The Hydrogenous Man and the Oxygenous Girl’ („Водородният господин и кислородното момиче“) and ‘Why I Turned Out to Be without a Wraith’ („Защо останах без двойник“). In their analyses emphasis is placed on eventfulness. The text gives a definition of an event and aims to track and analyze the different transformations in short stories. The thesis of the paper is the refunctionalization of the text’s narrative structure, which is achieved through change in discourse at the moment of an event taking place. The text represents an attempt to outline the most obvious relations between the event, plot and the way they affect the individual and their sense of time.

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