L’image de la Roumanie et des Roumains dans la littérature bulgare (fin du xixe siècle)
The article observes Romanian space as it was seen before Bulgaria’s liberation (1878) by four Bulgarian writers who give an account on Romania although neither the Romanians nor the country attract their attention particularly. Bacho Kiro, Ilia Blaskov consider Bucarest an emblem of the civilizatio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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OpenEdition
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Recherches |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cher/8040 |
| Summary: | The article observes Romanian space as it was seen before Bulgaria’s liberation (1878) by four Bulgarian writers who give an account on Romania although neither the Romanians nor the country attract their attention particularly. Bacho Kiro, Ilia Blaskov consider Bucarest an emblem of the civilization. For Bacho Kiro the capital is a town of creation. For Blaskov it symbolizes degradation and vice. Their texts show two different projections of the foreign country. The town is located in the paradigms: nature // culture, traditional // modern. Hadji Nitcho by Lioubène Karavelov, No fire, no place d’Ivan Vazov give another vision of the Bulgarian life in Romania, of the Romanians, of their towns. The texts describing the immigrants locate the protagonists in the paradigms: masters // servants, poverty // wealth, greatmindedness // moral lowness, patriotism // treason. The satire by L. Karavelov shows the moral depravation of an unscrupulous Bulgarian. In I. Vazov’s story foreigners sacrifice their lives for the freedom of their native country. The bases of a nuanced conception of the familiar and of the foreign are established while the presence of non-Bulgarian narration produces new artistic solutions. In conclusion, the images of Romania and the Romanians in the literature of the end of the 19th century reveal essential aspects of how Bulgarians perceive the world. They develop the problematic nature of well established values, they stimulate reflection about new or not yet adopted values. These images correspond to future stereotypes concerning the perception of neighbours and the Other. |
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| ISSN: | 1968-035X 2803-5992 |