POETICAL MYTHOLOGIZATION OF BULGARIAN IMPORT IN THE USSR: THREE POEMS Cover Image

ПОЭТИЧЕСКАЯ МИФОЛОГИЗАЦИЯ БОЛГАРСКОГО ИМПОРТА В СССР: ТРИ СТИХОТВОРЕНИЯ
POETICAL MYTHOLOGIZATION OF BULGARIAN IMPORT IN THE USSR: THREE POEMS

Author(s): Dechka Chavdarova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Poetry, Semiology, Social development, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, History of Communism, Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Art
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: Bulgaria; the Soviet Union; import; poetical mythologization;

Summary/Abstract: The text considers the mythologization of Bulgarian import in the USSR in the poetry from the Soviet era and the beginning of the 20th century, as a symbol of Bulgarian-Russian camaraderie: in a poem by V. Savelev a connection is discovered between the mythologization of Bulgarian tomatoes and some ideologemes of the official political discourse, while a poem by I. Kravtchenko seems to situate Bulgarian cognac in the same order with other signs of Bulgaria (towns, rivers, people), reflecting on imported goods as a means of narrowing the distance with the foreign country. Alongside, attention is paid to another semantics of Bulgarian imported goods in a poem by Y.Brodsky, where the names of “Slantze” and “Shipka” cigarettes, recalling the idea of the Soviet lifestyle, become signs of two different worlds, and lose their meaning of “Bulgarian”.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 53-56
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Russian
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