Title of the article:

RUSSIAN LITERARY MODERNISM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON BULGARIAN LITERATURE

Author(s):

M. Kostova-Panayotova

Information about the author/authors

Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova — PhD in Philology, Professor, South-West University “Neophit Rilski”, 66 Ivan Mikhajlov St., 2700 Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5174-7679. E-mail: panayotova@swu.bg

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2020

Volume

Vol. 58

Pages

pp. 203-224

Received

April 05, 2020

Date of publication

December 28, 2020

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-58-203-224

Index UDK

821.161.1.0+821.162.0

Index BBK

83.3(2Рос=Рус)53 + 83.3(4Бол)

Abstract

The paper discusses to what extent major currents and representatives of Russian modernism and the Avant-garde had influenced the works of prominent representatives of 20th-century Bulgarian literature such as L. Stoyanov, Liliev, Debelyanov, Trayanov, Sirak Skitnik, and many others. In addition to addressing the influence of Russian symbolism on Bulgarian writers, the article examines the impact of Acmeism on the work of El. Bagryanа and At. Dalchev; the one of Imaginism on the work of Bulgarian modernists from the 1920s such as Slavcho Krasinski, Geo Milev and others. The intertwining of features of the poetics from different avant-garde currents, both in the works of individual authors and in the works of a single writer appeared as a typical phenomenon in the life of the Bulgarian avant-garde. Such poets as N. Furnadzhiev, A. Raztsvetnikov, N. Marangozov and others, and fiction writers as Ch. Mutafov, A. Karaliychev, A. Strashimirov, J. Yovkov, repeatedly experienced the influence of contradictory modernist and avant-garde currents, however, in their works they managed to add the “European form” to the “Bulgarian content”. The study also involves Bulgarian avant-garde journals such as Crescendo, Libra/Vezni, etc. This paper argues that by going against the rules, the avant-garde writers created a productive artistic method, a kind of alternative classic. 

Keywords

Russian modernism, Bulgarian literature, avant-garde, influence.

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