Literature and Prizes
Claire Squires – A Common Ground? Book Prize Culture in Europe (transl. by Ruzha Muskurova) / 9
Julien Gracq Refuses le Prix Goncourt (transl. by Zhulide Hamzova) / 29
Jean-Paul Sartre and the Nobel Prize (transl. by Zhulide Hamzova) / 32
Sean Latham – True Fictions and False Histories (transl. by Ruzha Muskurova) / 35
Marc Verboord – Classification of Authors by Literary Prestige (transl. by Ruzha Muskurova) / 70
Anna Baldini – Resistance and the Literary Prizes in Tuscany (transl. by Daria Karapetkova) / 105
Mateja Pezdirc Bartol – The Grum Award in the Slovenian Literary System (transl. by Lyudmil Dimitrov) / 130
Javier Calvo – Barcelona Is Not in Catalonia (transl. from Spanish by Svidna Mihaylova) / 143
Olga Andreeva – Literary Prizes in Greece / 150
Pippo Russo – The Banality Handbook (transl. by Daria Karapetkova) / 157
Kristina Yordanova – A Literature Deprived of Memory / 161
Heritage
Paul Geyer – Petrarca’s Canzoniere as a Novel of Consciousness (transl. by Violeta Vicheva) / 169
Boyko Iliev – The Negative Connotations of Deconstruction / 230
Bozhana Filipova – „The Usylessly unreadable Blue book of Eccles“: the Artist’s Figure Caught between Autotextuality and the Silent Dialogue with Romanticism / 238
Debuts
Tsvetelina Mincheva – Kiril Hristov – the „Unseriously Serious“ Promoter of Psychoanalytic Concepts, or Hristov, the Persona Non Grata of Bulgarian Literature / 249
Anelia Toteva – Sands of Oblivion or the Wake of Consciousness. Hermeneutic Principles in the Novel „Between Desert and Life“ / 271
Reviews
Angel V. Angelov – Synthesis and „Quarrels“ / 300
Vladimir Ignatov – Bulgaria – a Stereotypical, Exotic Image, or Something Altogether Else? / 313
Yanitsa Radeva – Daria Karapetkova on the Bulgarian Experience of Literary Fashion / 321
Chavdar Parushev – Intellectual Portraits of the Human / 325
About the Authors / 330
Summaries / 336
Bibliography / 342
