https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389164
https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.354–383
Margarita Burmova
This study explores the figure of the jester as a cultural-aesthetic phenomenon, tracing its evolution as a palimpsest of the tragic and the comic, of excess and wisdom. Within this framework, particular emphasis is placed on the dramaturgical interpretation of the jester in the work of Boyan Danovski, and specifically in his dramatic vision “The Heart of the Jester” (1926). The analysis situates Danovski within the broader transhistorical and transcultural narrative of the jester, examining how he reconfigures this archetype in light of the cultural tensions of interwar Bulgaria.
Keywords: jester, interwar theatre, Bulgarian drama, the tragic and the comic, Boyan Danovski, “The Heart of the Jester”
About the author: Margarita Burmova is a student at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, pursuing a degree in Slavic Philology with a specialization in Slovak Studies. Her academic research interests encompass the fields of theater and literature, the history of theater, absurdism, the concept of the heroic, Romanticism in Slavic literatures, and other.
