Bilinguisme et repli sur soi : les choix de Lubomir Guentchev
Bilingualism and Self-restraint: the Choices of Lubomir Guentchev
Author(s): Alain VuilleminSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: bilingualism; writer; self-restraint; dissent; Lubomir Guentchev
Summary/Abstract: Lubomir Guentchev is a Bulgarian writer whose work was discovered in 1999. By 1930, he had conceived poems in Bulgarian, then, between 1949 and 1955, plays including one, which he transposed into French (Théurgie). He translated Bulgarian Symbolist poets into French (Peyo Kr. Yavorov, Nikolai Liliev and Teodor Trayanov, among others), and numerous French and German authors into Bulgarian. He also composed several collections of poetry in French. To what extent did this bilingualism foster in him a paradoxical phenomenon of self-restraint imposed by the circumstances of the time? What were its motives, goals and scope?
Journal: Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum
- Issue Year: 6/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 116-123
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English, French
