Българският Париж: пространства на диалога
The Bulgarian Paris: spaces of dialogue

Summary/Abstract: The report studies certain images of Paris created in Bulgarian literature and visual arts in the period between the two World Wars. Three dialogical fields have been outlined. The first one expands between Bulgarian and European culture (the French one in particular). The second dialogical field reveals the links between literature and the arts (predominantly the visual arts). The third dialogical field prostrates between authors being closer to the prevailing canonical pattern of the Bulgarian image of Paris (such as Nikolai Liliev, Atanas Dalchev, Elisaveta Bagryana, Konstantin Konstantinov, Pencho Georgiev) and others being marginal in comparison with the general stereotype (such as Assen Zlatarov, Dimitar Sprostranov, Nikolai Rainov, Kiril Krastev), forming a common inter-textual space. For Bulgarian literature the French capital stands, from one side, as a standard - a model for European culturality, which Bulgarian artists and intellectuals strive to implement in Bulgarian context, and from the other side, as an experimental terrain - a productive case study, where new artistic devices and approaches are being probated. In this way, even though Paris is politically, geographically and culturally not a Bulgarian town, it took an efficient part in the Bulgarian artistic life.

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