https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346207
https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.252-276
The Seasons – Briefly on a Never-Ending Topic
Margarita Serafimova
Seasons define every form of existence. With their physical and cultural characteristics, they shape our lives and emotional climates. Associated with cold and warm, dark and light, colours and tastes – the seasons influence every person and are able to permeate every work – creating a certain tonality, a discreet message, an atmosphere that influences the senses and adds to the meaning.
Keywords: seasons; literature; atmosphere; weather; climate memory
About the author: Margarita Serafimova (Associate Professor, ScD at the Insitute for Literature at the Bulgarian Academy if Science) is the author of books on epistolary art, on the role of places in the construction of meaning, about Orhan Pamuk’s novel My Name is Red, as well as numerous articles on literary and cultural history. Her interests are in dialogues between different arts, literature and knowledge, human sciences and natural sciences. Member of the Academic Circle of Comparative Literature (Sofia), of the Bulgarian Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century and of the Centre de recherches sur les littératures et la sociopoétique, Clermont Ferrand, France.
