The New Testament in Nikolay Rainov’s Novel "Between Desert and Life" Cover Image

Новозаветният текст в романа на Николай Райнов „Между пустинята и живота“
The New Testament in Nikolay Rainov’s Novel "Between Desert and Life"

Author(s): Maria Ogoyska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Higher Education , Cultural Essay, Scientific Life, Book-Review, Theory of Literature
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: Nikolay Rainov; Between Desert and Life; New Testament; theosophy; evil; Nietzsche

Summary/Abstract: The text offers a parallel and juxtaposing reading of the canonical evangelical texts andNikolay Rainov’s novel Between Desert and Life. It is known that in his complicatedtransformation of the New Testament, the writer implants theosophical ideas inhis narration radically changing the meaning and the message. Which is more, hisincarnation of God is, in a strange way, evil and misanthropic. The interpretation showscloseness between passages of the novel and the book N. Rainov was translating atthat time (1919) – "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 68-72
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Bulgarian