The Underground Man and Socialist Realism in the Novella Dr. Gospodov’s Sanatorium by Georgi Markov Cover Image

Човекът от подземието и социалистическият реализъм в новелата „Санаториумът на д-р Господов“ от Георги Марков
The Underground Man and Socialist Realism in the Novella Dr. Gospodov’s Sanatorium by Georgi Markov

Author(s): Tsvetelina Ivanova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Georgi Markov; novella; the Underground Man; socialist realism

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the system of characters in the novella Dr. Gospodov’s Sanatorium by Georgi Markov. The main focus of analysis is on the clash between the author’s outlook and the ideology of socialist realism. А typological and psychological parallel is drawn between the portrayal of the six tubercular patients in the novella and the Dostoevskyan Underground Man. A number of complex existential problems are approached in terms of biblical symbolism.

  • Issue Year: 26/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 140-147
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian