“I travel myself”

nomadic motives originating from the Balkans

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2016..38-45

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Comparative Balkan literature, migration, identity, otherness, nomadism, Vassilis Alexakis, Dumitru Tsepeneag, Julia Kristeva

Abstract

The article examines the special role of the journey - spiritual and physical, in three novels by immigrant authors from the Balkans: Paris-Athens by Vassilis Alexakis, Hotel Europe by Dumitru Tsepeneag and Murder in Byzantium by Julia Kristeva. Represented is the idea that, by leaving his motherland, the immigrant could never attach himself the same way to any place and be fully accepted in the new community. Thus, his constant movement appears as a peculiar reaction to this specific ‘uprooting’ and becomes a way of life and thinking – i.e. a modern ‘nomadism’. 

 

Author Biography

  • Darina Felonova, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

    Darina Felonova is a PhD student in Comparative Balkan Literature, at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski – Balkan Studies masters and doctoral studies program (Department of General, Indo-European, and Balkan Linguistics with the Faculty of Slavic Studies). Recent publications: Мигрантската идентичност в творчеството на Василис Алексакис и Думитру Цепеняг. – В: Балканските езици, литератури и култури. Дивергенция и конвергенция. София, Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2015, с. 477-484. [The migrant identity in the works of Vassilis Alexakis and Dumitru Tsepeneag. – In: Balkan Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Divergence and Convergence. Sofia University Press, 2015, p. 477-484.] Coordinator of Sofia University e-journal Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum.

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2025-11-06

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Vol. 2 (2016)

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“I travel myself”: nomadic motives originating from the Balkans. (2025). Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum, 2, 38-45. https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2016..38-45