Vol. 10 (2024)

I. Dystopia Traditions, Genre Dynamics, Directions of Transformation

A time for dystopias

Milena Kirova

14-21
- pdf
Of the dystopian-utopian and the genre of dystopia-utopia

Nikita Nankov

22-44
- pdf (Bulgarian)
Variations on the dystopian William James, Ursula Le Guin, and Bernard Wolfe

Vladimir Poleganov

45-54
- pdf (Bulgarian)
Exploitation of the natural world in Bulgarian science fiction utopias and dystopias of the socialist period

Anton Nikolov

55-71
- pdf (Bulgarian)
From consumption to over-consumption Didier de Chousy’s Ignis (1883), or, when the earth house is on fire

Laure Lévêque

72-82
- pdf (French)
The machine of power the dystopian world in Death in the shell by Agop Melkonyan and The squares of the city by John Brunner

Marchela Mironova

83-91
- pdf (Bulgarian)
Happiness as an impossible horizon on Andrei Platonov and Michel Houellebecq

Galina Georgieva

92-99
- pdf
"Time's a trap" the poetics of perspective in the Arabian Nights and The Handmaid’s Tale

Aurélie Le Formal

100-109
- pdf (French)
2084: The End of the World by Boualem Sansal, a Voltairian dystopia

Issam Boulksibat

110-118
- pdf (French)
"The Other Dream" of Erewhon an essay on the machines’ discreet rebellion

Nikolay Genov

119-128
- pdf
A poetic and dystopian quadrilateral Mayakovsky and Frank O'Hara, Essenin and Jim Harrison

Olena Berezovska Picciocchi

129-140
- pdf (French)
The Third Rome dystopia and archaism as history of the present in Victor Pelevin’s Journey to Eleusis

Vladimir Sabourin

141-154
- pdf (Bulgarian)
The Stepford Wives, trajectories of dystopia into gender, genre, class and race – from novel to film

Ioana Pankova

155-168
- pdf
Heterotopias, non-places and other chiasmi

Nataliya Atanasova

169-180
- pdf

II. Miscellanea

Translating the neologism comparative study of the novel Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau and its Bulgarian translation

Irena Kristeva, Galena Dobreva

181-190
- pdf (French)
The myth of the artist – from birth to collapse notes on the Lithuanian present-day novel

Eugenijus Žmuidа

191-198
- pdf
The academic reception of Emil Staiger's concept in Bulgaria

Angel Valentinov Angelov

199-212
- pdf (Bulgarian)

Book Reviews

Christianity and Literature. Figures of the (Ig)Noble

Miryana Yanakieva

213-216
- pdf (French)
Comparative literature. The femme fatale and 5 European “cuts” of the novel

Dina Mantcheva

217-221
- pdf (French)
The Romanian political novel of the 1960s and 1970s

Lora Nenkovska

222-226
- pdf (Bulgarian)
Impact et réception de la culture française dans les Balkans (XIXe – XXe siècles)

Sonya Aleksandrova-Koleva

227-232
- pdf (French)
Norms and rewritings/myths and reformulations

Anastasia Marinova

233-238
- pdf (Bulgarian)
The Balkan cultures: dialogue, transfer, metamorphoses

Fotini Christakoudy, Kristina Stoyanova

239-242
- pdf (Bulgarian)

Full Issue

Table of contents

Note from the founding editor 10 years after

Front-page cover Stiliana Uzunova. Can we sometimes also get warm? 160/130, mixed technique, canvas

I. Dystopia Traditions, Genre Dynamics, Directions of Transformation

A time for dystopias

Of the dystopian-utopian and the genre of dystopia-utopia

Variations on the dystopian William James, Ursula Le Guin, and Bernard Wolfe

Exploitation of the natural world in Bulgarian science fiction utopias and dystopias of the socialist period

From consumption to over-consumption Didier de Chousy’s Ignis (1883), or, when the earth house is on fire

The machine of power the dystopian world in Death in the shell by Agop Melkonyan and The squares of the city by John Brunner

Happiness as an impossible horizon on Andrei Platonov and Michel Houellebecq

"Time's a trap" the poetics of perspective in the Arabian Nights and The Handmaid’s Tale

2084: The End of the World by Boualem Sansal, a Voltairian dystopia

"The Other Dream" of Erewhon an essay on the machines’ discreet rebellion

A poetic and dystopian quadrilateral Mayakovsky and Frank O'Hara, Essenin and Jim Harrison

The Third Rome dystopia and archaism as history of the present in Victor Pelevin’s Journey to Eleusis

The Stepford Wives, trajectories of dystopia into gender, genre, class and race – from novel to film

Heterotopias, non-places and other chiasmi

II. Miscellanea

Translating the neologism comparative study of the novel Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau and its Bulgarian translation

The myth of the artist – from birth to collapse notes on the Lithuanian present-day novel

The academic reception of Emil Staiger's concept in Bulgaria

Book Reviews

Christianity and Literature. Figures of the (Ig)Noble

Comparative literature. The femme fatale and 5 European “cuts” of the novel

The Romanian political novel of the 1960s and 1970s

Impact et réception de la culture française dans les Balkans (XIXe – XXe siècles)

Norms and rewritings/myths and reformulations

The Balkan cultures: dialogue, transfer, metamorphoses

Language