За диалозите в литературата, политкоректността и инакомислието
On Dialogues in Literature, Political Correctness and Dissent

A Case Study from the Days of the People's Republic of Bulgaria

Author(s): Inna Peleva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Philology
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Bulgarian literature 1944 – 1989; Yordan Radichkov; Geo Milev; intertextuality
Summary/Abstract: The study is focused on Yordan Radichkov’s novel Everyone and No-one (1975). At first glance, the work meets the normative requirements of socialist realism for “correct” artistic representation of reality. A closer scrutiny, however, will discern in Radichkov’s text a number of “incorrect” things, among which one can feel the expression of deep disappointment over the unfulfilled (and unfulfillable) project of the Revolution to create a new (better) man and a new (better) world. This disappointment partly manifests itself in the peculiar dialogue with Geo Milev’s poem September – one of the most powerful “prophetic” articulations of left-wing ideology in the Bulgarian context…

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