The purpose of this paper is to examine the dialogue between Dimitar Dimov's novel “Tobacco” (1951) and Somerset Maugham's collection of short stories “The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands” (1921). ...

The aim of this paper is to throw a new light over the oeuvres of Georgi Rakovski and Petko Slaveykov who are among the first during the Bulgarian Renaissance, and who begin to bring diversity into their writing. It is ...

The current paper seeks to study the various uses of nature-related images and symbols in the poetry of Nikola Vaptsarov. The Sun and the sky are engaged in some of the paramount juxtapositions in Vaptsarov’s texts – ...

The present paper examines Bruno Schulz’s short story “Treatise on Tailors’ Dummies or The Second Book of Genesis” by mapping out the broader tradition of writings concerning automata with initial focus being on ...

The current paper analyses the animal references in the novel “Litse”. Up until now those animal references have not been noticed by the literary critics who have commented this novel. Animal references are used at two ...

This paper aims to make an intertextual analysis of three short stories by three Bulgarian authors: “Bae Mitar the Prophet” by Mihalaki Georgiev, “In the Next World” by Elin Pelin and “Adventure in Paradise” by Svetoslav ...

The everyday life during the Modern period becomes a particularly researched and discussed topic. With all of its subtopics it provokes a new thinking about the ordinary person's life. As a result of the military period ...

This paper aims to outline the main motifs and problems of the famous poem by Yavorov – “Senki” (“Shadows”). This is done through analyzing the poem as if it is a visual art work rather than a literary one and through ...

The text presents the research trajectories that the topic “Dario Fo on the Bulgarian stage” sets in the process of its research. Three analytical perspectives have been adopted – biographical, artistic and receptive. ...

The present paper offers a reading of the prefaces to Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet Major (1880) and The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886). We focus mainly on the former novel and use the latter as a point of reference. In this ...