![Автобиографичният разказ – осмисляне на собствената предопределеност (разказът на отец Митрофан от Бачковския манастир за себе си)](/api/image/getissuecoverimage?id=picture_2008_5663.jpg)
Автобиографичният разказ – осмисляне на собствената предопределеност (разказът на отец Митрофан от Бачковския манастир за себе си)
The paper concentrates on the specific situation, originating from the encounter between the field researcher and the informant. Every time the informant is willing to tell his/her life story, partly trying in this way to shorten the distance to the alien scholar. But there seems to be a much deeper motif for this: being interviewed, the interlocutor feels significant and is incited to strike a certain balance: to rationalize the principles moving the individual or the community behavior, and to rearrange his/her own life, apprehending it as a logically consistent and wholesome unity. The life of father Mitrofan, a monk in the Bachkovo monastery, is analyzed as an instructing and quite appealing example. His story is marked with his faith in God, a faith which was his main support in the many misadventures and serious illnesses he suffered. When he was young a clairvoyant foretold him that he was to become a monk. And although he spent his life in hard work and many other responsibilities, when already retired, he after all really became a monk in the Bachkovo monastery and devoted himself to the service of God.
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