WHERE IS THE TRAUMA HERE?
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2025
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Plovdiv University Press
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The article questions why fiction likes to talk about various human traumas. How does the reader participate in this narrative—as a psychotherapist or as a participant in group therapy? Analyzing the narrative work of Pavel Vezhinov from the period of the 1960s and 1970s - the short story collections The Boy with the Violin and Breath of Almonds, as well as the three novels The Barrier, The White Lizard and The Lake Boy - the author wants to prove that at the root of serious social traumas lies the disintegration of the traditional value system associated with the family structure, destroyed both by the shock invasion of Modernity and by the violent change in social morality carried out by totalitarian communist power.
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trauma, narrative, generic cosmos, moral norm, social function of literature