Dystopia w warunkach ponowoczesności? Przypadek bułgarski

• Authors: Ewelina Drzewiecka

Title variants

EN

Dystopia in the conditions of Postmodernity? A Bulgarian case

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The topic of the paper is Gnostic, and therefore total, experience of the world as a bad place in the context of the postulate (resulting from the postmodern critical attitude) to replace the total programs of the world’s transformation with partial transformations. A novel by Veselin Stoyanov (1957−2014) constitutes the subject matter of the analyses. The interpretative perspective is given by the utopian/ dystopian discourse, especially by the category of ‘dystopia’ as interpreted by M. Keith Booker. The reflection is focused on the consequences of the author’s attempt at reinterpreting and even unmasking a total thought, as well as on the diagnosis of world’s corruption in relation to the social criticism. Therefore, a crucial meaning is given to the question of the writer’s involvement, and finally − to the status of evil in literature. The paper raises the question of the functioning of the dystopia in the conditions of postmodernity.

Keywords

PL

Weselin Stojanow; literatura bułgarska; dystopia; parafraza biblijna; ponowoczeność

EN

Veselin Stoyanov; Bulgarian literature; dystopia; Biblical paraphrase; Postmodernity

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 4(7)
• Pages: 435-453

Dates

published

2014-06-02

Contributors

author

Ewelina Drzewiecka

• Polska Akademia Nauk