СЪНИЩАТА НА ПЕНЕЛОПА. РОМАНИТЕ НА СЕВДА КОСТОВА И МАРГАРЕТ АТУУД („ПЕНЕЛОПЕИДА“, 1993 И „THE PENELOPIAD“, 2005)
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Автор:ПРОФ. Д-Р ЕВДОКИЯ БОРИСОВА, адрес за контакти: e.borisova@shu.bg Университет : Шуменски университет "Еп. Константин Преславски" Катедра по Журналистика и масови комуникации
Рецензент: проф. д-р Пламен Шуликов
ШУМЕНСКИ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ "ЕПИСКОП КОНСТАНТИН ПРЕСЛАВСКИ" ФАКУЛТЕТ ПО ХУМАНИТАРНИ НАУКИ Катедра по Журналистика и масови комуникации ============================= PENELOPE'S DREAMS. THE NOVELS OF SEVDA KOSTOVA AND MARGARET ATWOOD ("PENELOPEID", 1993 AND "THE PENELOPIAD", 2005)
PROF. PHD EVDOKIYA BORISOVA
Abstract: In the space of almost a quarter of a century, two women's novels in European literature with identical titles and similar issues have diametrically different fates. Sevda Kostova's "Penelopeida" (1993, 2024- second edition) was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1999, but never received the fame it deserved for its time and was subsequently forgotten for a long time. Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" (2005), translated into Bulgarian as "Penelope's Odyssey" (2006), enjoys world fame. Both novels deal with Homer's plot of "The Odyssey" through the prism of the female voice of the mythological story of Penelope and Odysseus. The development of the motif of inaction imposed by the gods and the impossibility of choice is specific. In Margaret Atwood, the female drama of the victims is at the forefront: the confession of the hanged slaves and the already dead Penelope. In Sevda Kostova, Penelope is a victim of her own illusions about the possible fulfillment of the conservative utopia of marriage. And fidelity, love, expectation are projected in an inverted chronological sequence – in the retrospective of dreams. The motif of self-imposed inaction and the static state of the woman imposed by fate is interpreted in a modern and postmodern perspective by both authors. The dream is the formula and the framework of this state. We rediscover similar solutions and sensibilities in the works of two authors who dialogue with each other in different eras, without knowing each other. Key words: novel, "Odyssey", dreams, mythological story, Penelope, postmodernity
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