“PAPER CAN BEAR IT ALL” OR THE REVENGE OF INK ON THE (UN)WRITTEN HISTORIES OF OSTENSIBILITY. THE FIRST EDITION OF LORA KARAVELOVA’S LETTERS

Abstract

The text considers the literary value of Lora`s letters written by/to her both in the narrow literary sense and in the range of cultural time codes, when they were created and interpreted. Opposing to the vision whereby epistolary letters confirm the truth always – already – there, the text insists that to a great extent exactly Lora`s epistolary heritage, the way and the time of its presentation, reactions which it provoked generate the cliche by which both different critical conceptions and various public opinions insist that they should remember her.