The image of Bulgaria and the bulgarians in the works of Stanislav Stratiev

Abstract

In the context of the national-psychological study of Ivan Hadgiysky on “Bulgarian lifestyle and spirituality” the present text searches for the particularity in presenting the Bulgarian mentality and character in the works of the contemporary Bulgarian writer Stanislav Stratiev Babylonian Chronicles and Bulgarian Green; through the prism of paradox and absurd the author raises the issue about the disease – the languishing Bulgarian spirituality, incompetence in managing national life, consequence of the unsolved conflict between traditional and modern identity, between inherent and extrinsic as Stanislav Stratiev puts an emphasis on Bulgarian insufficiency which has turned Bulgaria into “the hypotenuse of The Bermuda Triangle where everything disappears”. On the way to United Europe the contemporary creators continue to develop their ideas for presentability of the Bulgarians in their attempt to understand themselves.