Юбилейната смърт на националния герой (Късни употреби на образа на Васил Левски: из социалистическата художествена литература, социалистическия печат и отвъд тях)
The Death Anniversary of the National Hero (Late Uses of Vasil Levski’s Image:Socialist Fiction, Socialist Press and beyond Them)

Summary/Abstract: Thе paper discusses some applications of the image of the 'Apostle' of the Bulgarian freedom Vasil Levski during the communist and post-communist decades in Bulgaria. The survey examines a chronologically wide empirical territory outlined by the socialist press and literature of the 1960s and 1970s, but also approaches models of interpretation in two contemporary lyrical anthologies devoted to the 'Apostle' (2000 and 2017). Models of ideological „absorption“ of the figure of the 'Apostle' are analyzed in the context of the socialist anniversary procedures most of which are dominated by the marking of his death. The text focuses further on specific cases that reconstruct totalitarian imagery and language practices in representative artistic editions from the last two decades of XX century.

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