Emma – That’s me! (Vazov and Flaubert)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2022..128-138

Keywords:

fiction, intertextuality, realism, bovarysme

Abstract

The article aims to answer a few questions related to the autobiographical and literary basis of Vazov’s short story Emma, its hidden correlation and opposition to Flaubert’s Emma from the novel Madame Bovary, as well as to trace some “bovarystic” plots in the prose of the antibovaryst Vazov.

Author Biography

  • Julian Zhiliev, Technical University of Sofia

    Julian Zhiliev is a literary critic and translator. He teaches Bulgarian language to foreign students at the Technical University of Sofia. He publishes book reviews, articles and studies in periodicals and scientific journals. He has translated Souvenirs pieux and Archives du Nord by Marguerite Yourcenar, Contre Sainte-Beuve suivi de nouveaux mélanges and L’affaire Lemoine by Marcel Proust, Baphomet by Pierre Klossowski and others.

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Published

2025-11-06

Issue

Vol. 8 (2022)

Section

III. IVAN VAZOV AS WORLD WRITER

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Emma – That’s me! (Vazov and Flaubert). (2025). Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum, 8, 128-138. https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2022..128-138