VOL. 60, BOOK 1, PART B, 2022 Full text (Bg)

Author: Tatyana Ichevska

Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv

Abstract
The focus of this text is on the ways in which poison and the related motif of (self-)poisoning function in the novel. They are, above all, metaphors through which the sick Bulgarian world in the 1920s is conceptualized and, consequently, sickness emerges as a modus of existence of the individual born
from it and/or forced to inhabit it.

Key words: Emilian Stanev, 1920s, poison, poisoning, ideology, politics, distorted thinking, shifting the measure