Цялост и разпадане - сянката на книгата

This text examines the specific life of Karavelov’s “Russian” belletristic works in Bulgarian and within a Bulgarian readership. It traces the implications of the premise that even outside the book Stranitsy iz Knigi Stradanii Bolgarskogo Plemeni (Pages from the Book of the Sufferings of the Bulgarian People”), substantially edited as they are in their Bulgarian translation, the individual works which are published on the pages of the Svoboda newspaper exhibit the author’s desire for completeness, accomplished in potentia in the shadow of the book. It is the present writer’s endeavours to describe the fresh justification for a search for over-textual completeness not only in a metamorphosis in the optics which serve to regard Bulgarian life but also through the structuring of the texts within the framework of the newspaper. The text discusses a special case of Karavelov’s book-desire.