The world of today

between pandemic and ecology

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2021..7-17

Keywords:

pandemic, ecology, terrorism, anti-utopia, crisis

Abstract

The text focuses on several recently published novels and a book of essays, which have provoked reactions and debates both in Bulgaria and around the world. It tries to see how writers rationalize the pandemic at the very beginning of its emergence. For most authors topics such as politics and ecology are important, because according to them the Covid crisis is the result of all other crises of today's world, and most of all, of the irresponsible human attitude towards nature and other human beings. Not accidentally – in their visions – it heralds new changes in the human and in the acceleration of the dystopian wave in literature.

 

 

Author Biography

  • Amelia Licheva, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

    Amelia Licheva is a poet and literary critic. She is a professor of literature theory at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. She is the author of the theoretical books Stories of Voice (2002), Theory of Literature (co-authored, 2005), Voices and Identities in Bulgarian Poetry (2007), Policies of Today (2010), and Short Dictionary of literary and linguistic terms (co-authored, 2012), Literature. Binoculars. Microscope (2013), Is the Nobel World? (2019), and the Collected Poems, The Eye Gazing Into Ear (1992), The Second Library of Babylon (1997), The Alphabets (2002), My Europe (2007) and Must See (2013), Beastly Meek (2017). Editor-in-chief of the Literary Journal, editor of the Literature Magazine. Member of PEN Bulgaria.

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Published

2025-11-06

Issue

Vol. 7 (2021)

Section

I. THE SOLITARY WALKER – INTROSPECTION AND REVOLT

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The world of today: between pandemic and ecology. (2025). Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum, 7, 7-17. https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2021..7-17