По колко начина може да бъде разказана историята? Близкото минало като романов сюжет
How Many Ways Are There to Recount History? The Recent Past as a Subject of Fiction

Author(s): Ani Burova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: novel; memory; history; socialism; post-socialism; literary typology
Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the ways in which the theme of the recent past (socialism in the second half of the 20th century and the post-1989 transition) is interpreted in the novels of the turn of the last century. It examines contemporary Bulgarian literature in the context of post-socialist Slavic literatures and draws out a number of typological similarities between them. The fictional interpretations of the recent historical past are remarkably diverse. The article offers an outline and a typology of the main directions in the novelistic representations related to the topic. Two main artistic models through which contemporary literature expresses the complex personal and collective memory of history are identified. One entails autobiographical or autofictional writing with an emphasis on the authenticity of experience, while the other involves the presentation of the historical events in an abstract and universalized form, in which the recent past is commented on in the much broader context of the entire human experience with history and its manifestations.

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