At the beginning of 2012 in Bulgaria was published Ôèçèêà íà òúãàòà (Physics of sorrow / of longing) by Georgi Gospodinov, one of the most important Bulgarian writers of the younger generation. Since the release of the book, Bulgarian literary scholars and critics are in dispute about whether Bulgaria has finally its contemporary, post- or even postpostmodern novel. My paper is an attempt to answer the question why the Bulgarian literature is waiting for a novel, and whether and how it has been used by Gospodinov – writer and literary scholar. The text poses also question about the boundaries of the novel genre. The text focuses on the use of myth, which turns out to be important for the story itself, as well as for its reception. Bulgarian writer deconstructs the myth of Minotaur, using the figure of the labyrinth in the structure of the book. Resigning from the classical myth, Gospodinov goes to meet the expectations of readers placed on the genre of the novel, which by Bartoszyñski is „specific creation of a social mythology”.
This article is an attempt to read the cycle Писма и фотографии (Letters and photographs) of bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov (part of Писма до Гаустин) as the overall project, whose main idea is to "recover" the travel, to give it a new unusual dimension, by "losing way" in spaces designated by various sites of the foreign countries. Nomad, in opposite to Bauman's tourist or vagabond, is a traveler, for whom moving is not a goal in itself. Nomad is not homeless. He identifies with the place in which he resides, he explore it and leaves it (but not abandon). He has specific kind of respect for the land on which he settled (but not possessed). The metaphor of the nomad means free crossing of the broadly defined boundaries and a certain periodicity, originally associated with the cycle of nature and the seasons. The analyze of Gospodinov's Писма и фотографии shows that subject in Писма до Гаустин can be recognized as a nomadic.
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