BULGARIAN CRITICAL AND TRANSLATION RECEPTION OF VESNA PARUN’S POETRY
Études balkaniques (Sofia) 2024, N 3, DOI: https://doi.org/10.62761/645.EB.LX3.03
Elena DARADANOVA
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria
Abstract: The article aims to analyze and summarize the translation, critical and scholarly reception of Vesna Parun’s lyrical work in Bulgaria with the intention to complement or detail the existing reception studies in the Bulgarian scholarly field. The focus placed on the forms of presence in the Bulgarian literary space outlines as a field of research the translation and critical activity until and after 1989). Both the earlier translations and the new ones, which are essential in constructing or expanding the idea of her poetry, are object of commentary. Modern approaches to the presentation of Parun’s poetry – publications in specialized periodicals, in anthologies, etc., are examined in terms of publication strategies which lead to different contexts of perception. The existing scholarly studies, presenting the varied scholarly perspectives (literary-historical, interdisciplinary, reception studies) to the work of Vesna Parun have been analyzed as an important factor for the formation of the reception image.
Keywords: Vesna Parun’s poetry; Bulgaria; translations; reception; reception image