Geography of Boredom. On Bogomil Raynov's Travelling in Everyday Life
Thе aim of the paper is to present the problem of boredom in Bogomil Raynov’s fourth book Travelling in Everyday Life (1945). The interpretation of boredom in the novel is seen as based on the idea of a mismatch between expectation and experience. The expectation of the individual turns out to be m...
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Thе aim of the paper is to present the problem of boredom in Bogomil Raynov’s fourth book Travelling in Everyday Life (1945). The interpretation of boredom in the novel is seen as based on the idea of a mismatch between expectation and experience. The expectation of the individual turns out to be modeled by the mass commercialization of the 20th century. The "cultural industry" replaces the sublime ideas of the romantic poetics with superfluous clichés, which deny the world its unpredictability, its unexpectedness. It is these kinds of clichés that are subject of irony in Bogomil Raynov's novel – false expectations create a false feeling of boredom. Boredom as a problem has been rarely discussed either by Bulgarian authors, or by Bulgarian literary historians, therefore this paper tries not only to focus scholars’ attention on it, but also to interprete it.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1bb6e13a0d8459bb2dc3ea8d14b74db2022-12-22T03:32:46ZdeuAxia Academic PublishersLabyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics2410-48171561-89272022-04-01222Geography of Boredom. On Bogomil Raynov's Travelling in Everyday LifeNadezhda Stoyanova0Sofia University "Sv. Kliment Ohridski" Thе aim of the paper is to present the problem of boredom in Bogomil Raynov’s fourth book Travelling in Everyday Life (1945). The interpretation of boredom in the novel is seen as based on the idea of a mismatch between expectation and experience. The expectation of the individual turns out to be modeled by the mass commercialization of the 20th century. The "cultural industry" replaces the sublime ideas of the romantic poetics with superfluous clichés, which deny the world its unpredictability, its unexpectedness. It is these kinds of clichés that are subject of irony in Bogomil Raynov's novel – false expectations create a false feeling of boredom. Boredom as a problem has been rarely discussed either by Bulgarian authors, or by Bulgarian literary historians, therefore this paper tries not only to focus scholars’ attention on it, but also to interprete it. http://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/article/view/273Bogomil Raynov, Bulgarian literature, boredom, irony, socialist realism, unpredicability |
| spellingShingle | Nadezhda Stoyanova Geography of Boredom. On Bogomil Raynov's Travelling in Everyday Life Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics Bogomil Raynov, Bulgarian literature, boredom, irony, socialist realism, unpredicability |
| title | Geography of Boredom. On Bogomil Raynov's Travelling in Everyday Life |
| title_full | Geography of Boredom. On Bogomil Raynov's Travelling in Everyday Life |
| title_fullStr | Geography of Boredom. On Bogomil Raynov's Travelling in Everyday Life |
| title_full_unstemmed | Geography of Boredom. On Bogomil Raynov's Travelling in Everyday Life |
| title_short | Geography of Boredom. On Bogomil Raynov's Travelling in Everyday Life |
| title_sort | geography of boredom on bogomil raynov s travelling in everyday life |
| topic | Bogomil Raynov, Bulgarian literature, boredom, irony, socialist realism, unpredicability |
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