BETWEEN THE BIG AND THE SMALL IN LITERATURE: THE PATH OF ANDREY GERMANOV

VOL. 61, BOOK 1, PART C, 2023, pp. 58 – 64 Full text (Bg)

Author: Elka Dimitrova

Affiliation: Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Abstract
The paper explores Andrey Germanovʼs (1932 – 1981) poetry from the collection of poems “Sprouts” (“Kalnove”) (1959) to the memoir book “Russet Boys” (“Shayachni Momcheta”) (1981). The study is developed with a view to the context of the changing political and sociocultural situation in Bulgaria in the period from 1944 to the beginning of the 1980s. Germanov’s writings are interpreted within the thematic frame of the path from the ideologically orthodox texts to the criticism of the political system. A thesis is proposed that Germanov’s eventual place between the “big” and the “small” Bulgarian writers of the period is predisposed by his ideological “transgression”.

Key words: modern Bulgarian literature, communist regime, lyrics, memoirs