От смъртта на автора до възвръщането на една писателка
From the Death of the Author to the Revival of a Woman Writer

The Case of Evgenia Dimitrova

Author(s): Milena Kirova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Philology
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Crisis of authorship; Evgenia Dimitrova; history of the Bulgarian novel; psychological novel
Summary/Abstract: The article stems from the popular concept “crisis of authorship”, promoted by the Russian literary scholar Mihail Bakhtin, implemented and developed by Atanas Buchkov in his works throughout the years. The crisis of authorship gradually developed into a new concept, “the death of the author”, in the context of French post-structuralism. Yet, Bulgarian literature knows another process which could be called “oblivion of the author”. What I have in mind is its capacity to forget, sometimes completely, some writers even among those who have been well known in their time. Such is the case with Evgenia Dimitrova (1875-1930), the best known Bulgarian woman prose writer during the first three decades of the 20th century, author of the first psychological novel in our literature. The article aims to revive and to introduce her name and her works in the history of Bulgarian literature.

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