НОВАТА БЪЛГАРСКА ЛИТЕРАТУРА ОТВЪД КАЛОТИНА
NEW BULGARIAN LITERATURE BEYOND KALOTINA

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the actual presence of contemporary Bulgarian literature abroad. Part of it was written and published first abroad in Bulgarian or in other languages, another part of it was created in Bulgaria and then translated and publishes elsewhere. In both cases several questions arise – they are connected with the integration of these authors and their texts in the non-Bulgarian environment (Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Kapka Kassabova, Rouja Lazarova, Miroslav Penkov et al.); the returning of some of them (Atanas Slavov, Germinal Civikov, Zachary Karabashliev) and the motives if this returning. Another knot of problems is associated with the motivation of the foreign translators and publishers and the criteria of their choices. Another important problem is the reception of the Bulgarian text abroad (Georgi Gospodinov), etc and the way this reception is presented in Bulgaria. Another topic is the ambitions of the writers when publishing in foreign language, the dilemma between the two options – to follow the stereotypes of the public (and so to auto-exoticization or even to self-colonize their culture) their writings, or to clash with them, presenting the viewpoint of the Bulgarian at home, therefore even to clash with such Western stereotypes. The paper is seeking answers to some of these questions.

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