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Amulets and Apocryphal Prayers in Bulgarian Literature and Culture
(Plovdiv University Press, 2025) Adinolfi, Roberto
Apocrypha have been a part of Bulgarian literature since its earliest stages and include apocryphal prayers, which are often contained in amulets. There are prayers against several kinds of illnesses, misfortunes, evil beings, and, generally against threats to human prosperity and well-being. Following a tradition from ancient times, in these prayers and incantations we can find large narrative parts, which at times bear similarities to folk tales. This is the case of the prayers of St. Sisinnius. Several of the apocryphal prayers are found in texts from different epochs; for instance, one should think of the letter of King Abgar to Jesus, excerpts of which can already be found in lead amulets from the 10th century, but it is also part of the first Bulgarian printed books. Today’s folk rituals share similarities with Medieval prayers. This paper focuses on the analysis of some apocryphal motifs through the centuries.
Transonimized Hydronyms in Bulgarian and Croatian
(Plovdiv University Press, 2025) Gola-Żurek, Jolanta
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of transonymization in two Slavic languages: Bulgarian and Croatian. The transition of one category of proper nouns to another affects many areas of life (the adoption of transferred names or zoonyms, anthroponymic names in the form of toponyms, the giving of personal names to commercial and service establishments or products, etc.). This process consists in the conversion of a proper name from one category into a proper name from another category, thanks to which transonyms are created, which are new, secondary proper names. An example of this is the transformation of the name of the Danube River into the name of the Bulgarian cream Danube, the Danube hotel in Croatia, or Danube Street in Krakow. The article examines the process of transonymization as a way of creating and maintaining Bulgarian and Croatian proper names in the urban space of the two Slavic countries, and presents the mechanisms of name-forming processes, the study of which could be continued and expanded in other Slavic languages.
Between Resentment and Nostalgia: Sketches on the Literature of Bulgarian Jews in Israel
(Plovdiv University Press, 2025) Mikulecký, Jakub
The Bulgarian-Jewish literature written and published in Israel from 1948 to 1989 remains an almost unexplored phenomena in the contemporary Bulgarian historical discourse. This article focuses on the interpretation of selected literary texts (poetry novels, and short stories), with particular attention to the poetics of nostalgia and, especially, to the relationship between nostalgic lamentations and traumatic memory, as the memory of Bulgarian Jews oscillated precisely between these extremes of remembering. The article examines texts by the following authors: Albert Mihael, Shlomo Kalo, Tilda Levi, Albert Varsano, Albert Levi-Pepo, Yona Schwarz, Edi Arueti, Aaron Assa, Salis Tadzher, and Moni Papo. Within mainstream Israeli culture, the works of Bulgarian Jews represent a distinctive subculture, bearing a unique language and cultural identity that reveals a specific historical memory.
Andrić’s Brother Petar Cycle
(Plovdiv University Press, 2025) Vaglio, Luca
One of the most important thematic lines in the work of Ivo Andrić is connected to the phenomenon of Bosnian Franciscans: this goes through the author’s entire body of work, but it is expressed to the highest degree in those texts which can be defined as Franciscan stories. Among these stories the cycle of Brother Marko and the cycle of Brother Petar stand out. Thanks to its high and refined degree of literary elaboration (including a peculiar realisation of the technique of framing) and to its great semantic meaningfulness, the narrative cycle of Brother Petar – including the short novel The Devil’s Yard – is one of the culminations of Andrić’s art and represents a morpholog ical solution situated between the long story and the short novel. Thanks to Brother Petar’s character, who functions as a structural and thematic key with a historical ba sis, this cycle carries out a peculiar concretisation of the complex relationship among the author’s personality, historical reality and fiction.
Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. and the Robot Concept
(Plovdiv University Press, 2025) Bílek, Jan
This article deals with the internationally famous play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek from 1920. The play introduced the word robot into the languages of individual nations. In particular, the article follows the emancipation of the term robot and the author’s original literary construct of the mass production of these machines. The production is based on the scientific biochemical discovery of the so-called protoplasm, which is their physical shell, including basic intelligence. By unexplained modification of production processes in order to increase their sensitivity, advanced versions of robots will acquire consciousness, a soul. And even though they are not of the same substance as humans, they resemble them. The study also draws attention to the playwright’s starting points, the theme and the meaning of the play.