Od)nowa chrześcijańska? Apologia według powieści Filipa Dimitrowa Светлина на човеци

• Authors: Ewelina Drzewiecka

Title variants

EN

CHRISTIAN RENEWAL? APOLOGY BY PHILIP DIMITROV’S NOVEL СВЕТЛИНА НА ЧОВЕЦИ (THE LIGHT OF MEN)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper raises the issue of the functioning of Christian tradition in (post)modern Bulgarian literature in the perspective of the typical for the Western mass culture exploitation of biblical images in order to deal with various "totalisms". The subject is a novel by Philip Dimitrov Светлина на човеци (2003), which paraphrases the New Testament themes makes a (re)construction of the image of the first Christians’ comunity and aspires to create a message in accordance with Christian canon. The text appears to be an apology of God's creation and its freedom and, consequently, to stand up for the institution of the Church and the Christian roots of Bulgarian culture. However, as adapting heterodox motifs, in fact, it raises a question about the boundaries of Orthodoxy and the definition of strategy of evangelization. The aim of this paper is to interpret the modern term of apocrypha in the perspective of the essentially ambivalent experience of postmodernism and posttotalitarism, as a testimony of the worldview exploration of the writer (and the entire epoch).

Keywords

EN

Biblistic tradition; postmodernism; Apology; Christianity

• Publisher: Committee on Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Pamiętnik Słowiański
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 123-136

Contributors

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Ewelina Drzewiecka

• Instytut Slawistyki PAN, ul.Bartoszewicza 1b/17, 00-337 Warszawa