Агиографски черти в образа на Неофит Рилски в романа „Слово за Зографа Захарий” от Владимир Свинтила
Hagiographic elements in the image of Neophit Rilski in the novel “Slovo za Zografa Zaharii” by Vladimir Svintila

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 1980s Vladimir Svintila published his novel “Slovo za Zografa Zaharii”. The interest in historical Christian subjects was common for the previous two Bulgarian decades but actually the novel was written exactly then, its publishing was later. In the title of the novel the genre concept “slovo” is used, a term used in medieval Bulgarian literature. Although the main character is Zaharii Zograph, the praise, belonging to the genre “slovo”, does not appeal only to him, but to the other character in the novel Neofit Rilski. In his image different hagiographic elements can be found. The present research aims to show these hagiographic elements and to suggest that Vladimir Svintila may have used the hagiographic character Constantine Cyril Philosopher from The Expanded Vita of Constantine Cyril Philosopher as a model. It also aims to answer the questions why this correlation is possible.

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