VESNA PARUN’S JOURNEY TO BULGARIA AS EXISTENTIAL NECESSITY AND CHALLENGE TO CREATIVITY
Études balkaniques (Sofia) 2024, N 3, DOI: https://doi.org/10.62761/645.EB.LX3.01
Antoaneta BALCHEVA
Institute of Balkan Studies and Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Abstract: The article examines Vesna Parun’s journey to Bulgaria as a mental construction, whose optical framework is the meeting ground of the dialogue about borders and identities, about surmounting time and space, about the physical and its metaphysical dimension, about escape and return. Immersed in the waters of the “inner self”, the author focuses on suggestion in order to invigorate intuition and unravel the essence of her own existence. The brainchild of her deep self-reflection and philosophical insights, her contact with Bulgarian topoi, artists, historical and cultural realities is presented as an ontological route that is a rationale for creative inspiration and a condition for spiritual resurrection.
Keywords: dialogue, otherness, ontological route, borders, identities
ZAGREB IN BULGARIAN LITERATURE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Études balkaniques (Sofia) 2020, N 3
Antoaneta BALCHEVA
Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria
Abstract: The article is focused on the ideas of the Bulgarian intelligentsia about the Croatian capital at different stages of the political and spiritual history of Bulgarians and Croats. Zagreb, as an administrative and cultural capital, sets the pulse for the entire country, defining its structure. The city will be seen as a collective image of Croatian history and cultural identity, which acquires the qualities of a medium or a mental construct that connects different cultural strata and value hierarchies. Based on the analysis of literary works, travelogues, letters, travel notes, the dynamics of the town will be sought in the reflection of his many medieval and new histories, which intertwine numerous dialogical fields, legitimising him as the political, economic and cultural centre of the Croatian nation.
Keywords: Zagreb, Bulgarian Literature, Travelogues, Imagology