Vol. 35 No. 35 (2025): Literature and Visual Art
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
