Zapomenutí vyhnanci? (Ne)návraty bulharské exilové literatury po roce 1989
Forgotten Exiles? Comebacks of Bulgarian Exile Literature After 1989

Author(s): Jakub Mikulecký
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Bulgarian exile literature; comebacks from exile; anti-communist literature; postsocialistic culture
Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the situation of Bulgarian exile literature from the Cold War period after the fall of the communist regime in 1989; i.e. on how Bulgarian exile literature was incorporated into the new conditions of a multi-party democratic society and a free market. Subject to the analysis are exile poetry, prose, memoirs, essays, feuilletons, as well as satire and humorous literature, with the aim of uncovering to what degree particular types and genres were successful in post-socialistic culture in Bulgaria. The article seeks to locate the new publications of older exile books in the context of the new market economy of post-socialistic Bulgaria, and to define a set of those literary texts that, on the contrary, fell into oblivion. After more than three decades since the fall of the socialistic regime in Bulgaria, there is a need to try to determine some general tendencies related to the phenomenon of Bulgarian exile literature’s emancipation within the new post-socialistic culture.

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