“THE GRAY PROFESSOR”, OR ON BULGARIAN CRITICISM AS A LIFELONG PURSUIT (DR. KRASTYO KRASTEV IN MILENA KIROVA’S LITERARY-HISTORICAL PORTRAITURE)

dc.contributor.authorVelkova-Gaydarzhieva, Antonia
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-05T06:26:50Z
dc.date.available2025-08-05T06:26:50Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThe text critically examines one of the defining strokes in the post-independence literary history of Milena Kirova – the one dedicated to Dr. Krastyo Krastev, whose devotion to literary criticism became a lifelong pursuit. The focus is on one of the first extensive literary-historical attempts that constructed a complex, internally contradictory, multifaceted – both in characterological and socio-stylistic terms – portrait of the Critic, known as “the man in gray.” For the first time, a silhouette of a modern arbiter of esthetic taste has been outlined so closely and in such detail from a psychographic, esthetic-literary, historical-contextual, and creative-biographical perspective within the framework of the literary-historical narrative. To shift the perspective on him–from the familiar, conventional literary-historical image of a rigorous but dull and doctrinaire scholar, he emerges as one of the most perceptive and conceptual connoisseurs of esthetics, a zealous builder of modern Bulgarian culture; the “General” of literary criticism in our country.
dc.identifier.issn3033-0181
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/store/703
dc.publisherPlovdiv University Press
dc.subject“the gray professor”
dc.subjectDr. Krastyo Krastev
dc.subjectliterary criticism
dc.subjectpost-independence literary history
dc.subjectMilena Kirova
dc.title“THE GRAY PROFESSOR”, OR ON BULGARIAN CRITICISM AS A LIFELONG PURSUIT (DR. KRASTYO KRASTEV IN MILENA KIROVA’S LITERARY-HISTORICAL PORTRAITURE)
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