Болести, диагнози и терапии в повестта "Търновската царица" на Емилиян Станев
Diseases, Diagnoses and Therapies in the Novella "The Queen of Turnovo" by Emilian Stanev

Author(s): Tatyana Ichevska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: doctor; hygiene; prostitution; tuberculosis; passion; political madness; cholera; therapies
Summary/Abstract: The object of the present paper is to study Emilian Stanev’s novella The Queen of Turnovo through the prism of the medicine – literature relationship by virtue of which his work holds a special place in Bulgarian literature. Therefore, this paper brings up a host of medical and social issues for discussion – the activities of the formally trained physician, hygiene care, prostitution and venereal diseases, tuberculosis, destructive passion, political insanity, war (as) syndrome, cholera, and clashing views on (in)effective medical therapies. On the one hand, these problems suggest the need for a diagnostic consultation; on the other hand, they reveal the impossibility of making an accurate diagnosis and finding a way to deal with this alarming situation. They allow one to construe illness and the morbid in the flesh and soul of the body politic, to make sense of the eternal questions about free choice, guilt, responsibility, and punishment.

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