Verba iuvenium

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Browsing Verba iuvenium by Author "Boneva, Bozhana"

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    ASPECTS OF THE PATHOLOGY IN BLAGA DIMITROVA’S NOVEL “FACE“
    (Plovdiv University Press, 2025-05-16) Boneva, Bozhana; Бонева, Божана
    The purpose of this paper is to examine Blaga Dimitrova's novel „Face“ through the illness as a metaphor. An attempt is made to discover and analyze the pathological and its functions: both in the individual – mainly through the main female figure Bora Naydenova, who is simultaneously a "patient" and a "diagnostician" in the novel, as well as in society, which actually appears to be the subject of Naydenova's sociological survey. The only healthy organism that has preserved its „humanity“ turns out to be Bora’s indoor ficus which is able to influence the characters psycho-emotionally, guiding them to their healing. The novel is documentary when it comes to the fact that it creates a „medical report“ of the Bulgarian society from the end of the 1950s. Highly stylized, „Face“ is the kind of a diagnosis that instills fear into those in power, whose reluctance to admit the pathology of their own actions results in the banning of the novel.
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    THE DEMONIC PRESENCE IN KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOV'S “SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING”
    (Plovdiv University Press, 2024-05-17) Boneva, Bozhana
    This paper focuses on Konstantin Konstantinov’s short story – “Seven o’clock in the morning”, published for the first time in the homonymous collection from 1940. The paper’s subjects are the demonic outlook of the nameless city and its interaction with the nameless female figure, who finds herself within the boundaries of the mysterious urban space in times of crisis with the goal of rediscovering and self-understand herself. The interpretation outlines the mechanisms through which the city acquires its new demonic appearance, all while suggesting and summarizing the city’s possible identification as well as presenting a reconstructed route of the main character through the urban space.