Face, grace and disgrace

an essay on the phenomenon of spying through the prose of Gabriela Adameșteanu, Blaga Dimitrova, and Tzvetan Marangozov

Auteurs

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2022..28-40

Mots-clés :

Balkan literatures, totalitarian experience, myth, personality, otherness, holiness, sense

Résumé

The text is concentrated on the semantic net of a few main topics: face, difference, and indifference (ataraxia), personality and impersonality, following and spying. Three novels which represent different totalitarian versions are in the focus of the analysis. The parallels point out the propinquity between the novels and their conception of the human “being and time”, and especially the phenomenon of the face. The face never marks only its physical manifestation. It is an essential divine mark of infinite love and grace. It is a place of supreme ordeal and supreme feast. The place where the man has to do the most important choice in his life.

Biographie de l'auteur

  • Liudmila Mindova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

    Liudmila Mindova [Людмила Миндова] graduated in Slavic Philology from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and received a Master’s degree in 1998 and a PhD degree in 2006. She is the author of three collections of poems and two monographs on South Slavic literatures: The Voice of the Baroque. Ivan Gundulić and the Croatian Baroque Norm (2011) and The Other Ithaca. On the Literary Home (2016). In her translation, many books by Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav writers have been published into Bulgarian. Liudmila Mindova is currently an associated professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies and Center of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a part-time lecturer at Sofia University. Her scientific research is in the field of comparative literature, South Slavic literatures, cultural semiotics, and cultural studies.

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Publiée

2025-11-06

Numéro

Vol. 8 (2022)

Rubrique

I. TRANSLATION, CONTEXT, IMAGES

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Face, grace and disgrace: an essay on the phenomenon of spying through the prose of Gabriela Adameșteanu, Blaga Dimitrova, and Tzvetan Marangozov. (2025). Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum, 8, 28-40. https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2022..28-40