Щрихи към (за)млъкването и проговарянето в романа „Лице“ на Блага Димитрова
Outlines of (lapsing into) silence and utterance in the Face novel by Blaga Dimitrova

Summary/Abstract: The subject of analysis in the present paper is the forbidden novel Face by Blaga Dimitrova in view of clarifying the specificities of the characters’ silence and utterance, as well as the formation of the sinister repressive mechanisms of authority, depicted in the text which thoroughly reflects the sociopolitical situation in the country not only at the time when the novel was written – at the second half of the 70s, but also at the time when the plot is set - immediately before and after the Plenum in April 1956. In the novel Face, the totalitarian culture is represented via its full set of means for supervision and diverse forms of ideological prevention, where the incapability to control one’s own speech, as well as the speech of others is considered as a retreat from the right ideological positions and is being sternly punished.

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