crisis

The paper is an effort at psychological analyzing the problem of the crisis in Lesya Ukrayinka’s literary heritage. The object of the research is her famous poem “Captive Mother”. The subject of this study is the crisis of the human in the system due to his dreaming of freedom. The author is analyzing the conversation between the lead character, her friend and a little child and trying to develop a problem of the relation between several generations through the crisis of a captive human.

In this article, I delve into Otets Paisiy magazine (1928-1943), an organisation of the right-wing patriotic All-Bulgarian union ‘Otets Paisiy’. I aim to reveal how the image of the Hilendar monk was formed as a symbol at a time of crisis of nationalism. The main question is why it was Paisius of Hilendar who was chosen as the symbol of Bulgarian revisionism after the Treaty of Neuilly. The subject of the analysis are texts by Spiridon Kazandzhiev and Boris Yotsov as they express different visions of historical perspective, rethinking the history-life relationship, and ultimately getting over major principles of the ‘philosophy of life’, still modern between the two world wars. Finally, I trace the institutionalisation of the celebration of Paisius in Bulgarian culture in the context of the symbol crisis in the 1930s.