Българският роман през първото десетилетие на XXI век: какво се случва с нашия „критически реализъм“?
The Bulgarian Novel in the First Decade of the 21st Century: What is Happening with Our “Critical Realism”?

Author(s): Milena Kirova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Bulgarian literature; socially oriented fiction; novel; social representation; the first decade of the 21st century
Summary/Abstract: This paper follows the transformations of the so-called “critical realism” in the development of Bulgarian fiction during the first decade of the 21st century. Debating the popular critical opinion that social topics are rarely met and feebly presented in modern Bulgarian literature, the paper articulates a thesis of its own; the idea stands based on the example of many novels written during the first decade of the new century. Any search for traditional ways of social representation nowadays is pointless. The paper highlights how different types of novels (urban prose, “women’s writing”, satirical novel, etc.) assimilate social themes within the framework of their genre specifics. The article ends with a summary of the observations made and the conclusions reached.

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