https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2024.33.216-239
https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1306317
Quotations from Mass Literature and Culture and from Modern Classics in the Experimental Writing of Boris Aprilov
Maya Gorcheva
ULSIT, Bulgaria
m.gorcheva@unibit.bg, mayagorcheva@abv.bg
Boris Aprilov’s prose builds a dense citation network of names from both literature and mass culture. In his later work, icons of modern literature are claimed as authorities, but the quotations come from the classics or from mod- ern mass culture. The study traces different configurations between the narra- tive and the quotation as cultural sign: mention; rewriting; juxtaposition with the authoritative antecedent. Citation strategies are considered in relation to the aesthetic project of correlating high elitist measure with mass accessibility. In the aspect of Bulgarian culture, the voicing of mainstream and popular authors in Boris Aprilov‘s prose shows their reception and rethinking in the context of the closed society behind the Iron Curtain.
Keywords: quote, citational strategies, rewriting, mass culture, translation and reception, Boris Aprilov
For citation: Gorcheva, M. Quotations from Mass Literature and Culture and from Modern Classics in the Experimental Writing of Boris Aprilov. // The Literature, year XVII, issue 32, 2024. Sofia: Univerisity Press “St. Kliment Ohridski”. (In Bulgarian)
About the author: Maya Gorcheva is a literary historian, Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy (Aesthetics). She is Associate Professor at the University of Library and Information Science (UniBIT). Her research interests include modern literature and culture, comparative studies and translation, textual criticism. She has authored over a hundred of articles and studies; two textbooks and ten monographs. Her most recent work is in the field of aesthetics and explores the category of possible worlds as an approach to the construction of literary fiction in Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka and Albert Kafka.
She is a member of the Bulgarian Асаdemic Circle of Comparative Literature (АССL).
