About the Journal
The Journal "The Literature" is an interdisciplinary publication that examines literature in a broad cultural and intertextual context, focusing on the problematization of boundaries and the dialogue between texts and cultures.
The editorial team includes leading literary researchers and linguists, as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Slavic Studies of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". It will be held at the Faculty of Slavic Studies of the University "St. Kliment Ohridski". The editorial board is an international team from the country and abroad.
Current Issue
Contents
Katerina Gadjeva. The Monster with Many Faces. A Look at the Fairy Tale “Beauty and the Beast” and Its Illustrations / 11
Marina Petrova. The Other Alice. Illustrations as a Model for Interpreting “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll / 37
Nikolay Aretov. The Illustrations of the First Bulgarian Bertoldo / 60
Bilyana Borisova. Gustave Doré and The Bible / 73
Margarita Ivailova Staneva. Aesthetics of Violence: Ideology and Women’s Destiny in “Nevesta Nena” and “Unequal Marriage” / 106
Katya Zografova. Unknown Pages of the Avant-Gardist Max Metzger / 127
Genadi Gatev. From Ritual to Algorithm: The Hybrid Turn of Art and the Fate of Imagination / 151
Yanitsa Radeva. Literature and Visuality: New Forms of Literary Presentation in Bulgaria (2000–2025) / 177
Eleonora Shestakova. Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting: about the Interrelationships of Artworks and Themed Desserts in the Modern Media Sphere / 200
Julia Jordanova-Pancheva. Theses on Photography in Light of Literature / 243
Polina Penkova. Masculinity in Transition. Narratives and Readings / 284
Vesela Kucheva–Petrova. Sequential Images in Graphic Novels / 310
Debuts
Snezhana Doncheva. Love and Déréalité in “Mrs. Dalloway”: the Disintegration of the Reality Effect / 326
Margarita Burmova. Jester of the Starry Expanse: The Specifics of the Character in Boyan Danovski’s Dramatic Vision “The Heart of the Jester” (1926) / 354
Aleksandra Koleva. Floriography of Femininity. The Relation between Floral Imagery and Feminine Characters in Konstantin Konstantinov’s Novella “Love” / 384
Stanislav Mladenov. Ostfiction: Illusion, Surveillance and Punishment in the Everyday Life of the Emigrants in ‘Germany, a Dirty Tale’ / 407
Iva Anastasova. “Passion or the Death of Alice” – the Strange Mirrors / 435
Reviews
Orieta Antova. The Rosen Petkov Collection: a Window to Bulgarian Modernism / 447
Plamen Antov. Between History, Legend and Symbol / 454
Lora Nenkovska. About the Symbolism of Water in Bulgarian Literature / 462
Journal “The Literature” / 481
Requirements Regarding Materials for Publication in The Literature Journal / 483
Publication Ethics / 487
