https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389181
https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.462–469
Lora Nenkovska
The review presents Cătălina Puiu’s book “The Motif of Water in Bulgarian Literature”, which explores the symbolism of water in Bulgarian literary tradition. The analysis covers authors from the National Revival to contemporary times – from Petko R. Slaveykov, Vazov, Pencho Slaveykov, and Yavorov to Bagryana, Dalchev, Emil Andreev, and Ivan Stankov. Water is examined in three main aspects – life, purification, and renewal – functioning as a key to the interpretation of literary texts. The book makes a valuable contribution to the reception of Bulgarian literature in Romania and offers new perspectives for its understanding.
Keywords: Bulgarian literature, water motif, symbolism, interpretation, reception
About the author: Lоra Nenkovska is a chief assistant in the Department of General and Indo-European Linguistics at the Faculty of Slavic Philology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. She teaches Romanian language, medieval and modern Romanian literature in “Balkan Studies” and Medieval Romanian literature in “Romanian Philology”. She has been translating fiction for more than fifteen years, she has translated 30 books from Romanian to Bulgarian and from Bulgarian to Romanian. Areas of her scientific interests: Theory of translation, Comparative literary studies, History of literature, Medieval and modern Romanian literature, Bulgarian-Romanian cultural relations and translation.
