“TI SNE OT NEBESATA PLAMAK…“ – THE PROMETHEUS COMPLEX AND PENCHO SLAVEYKOV’S WORKS

Abstract

A lot has been written about Pencho Slaveykov and his works in which “my father in me“, the generational conflict between “the old generation“ and “the young generation“ and Prometheus’ image have an essential place. Those are three concepts which in the following paper will be analysed through Gaston Bachelard’s idea about The Prometheus complex. This is a way to represent a new point of view on those concepts and their meaning. Pencho Slaveykov’s Prometheus complex has two extents. Each one has its own features and displays itself in different ways in his works.