VOL. 62, BOOK 1, PART C, 2024, pp. 23 – 38 Full text (Bg)
Author: Marcel Černý
Affiliation: Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Abstract
The article is focused on the work of the forgotten novelist and playwright Dimo P. Syarov. He made his debut as a novelist, but already during his studies in Switzerland (1909 – 1911) he began to write travel stories with surprising punchlines set in Germany, Austria and also in Prague. Although being often neo-romantic love sketches, these short prose pieces also thematized mysterious events and depicted various strange human types or shocking situations. Syarov took these impulses from the Bulgarian diabolists. A special place in Bulgarian-Czech literary relations occupies his original book Zlatna Praga. Kartini i predaniya (Golden Prague. Paintings and Legends, 1934).
Key words: Bulgarian-Czech literary relations, Czech topoi in Bulgarian literature, Prague genius loci, diabolism, mysterious and supernatural motifs
