Times and masks in texts by and about Emiliyan Stanev

Abstract

The article explores the masks Emiliyan Stanev uses to participate in the literary life of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. It also analyzes the attitude of literary scholarship towards the writer’s various manifestations. It comes to the conclusion that in order to defend his literary existence and to ensure literary publicity for his texts, the author had to simultaneously perform several – in certain cases mutually exclusive – social roles.

Keywords

• literature of the people`s republic of bulgaria
• socialist realist canon
• socialist parnassianism
• alternative canon