Nicholas L. Johnson

The Minotaur and the Self

Construction of a Flexible Bulgarian-ness through Disability in Gospodinov’s The Physics of Sorrow The Minotaur in Georgi Gospodinov’s физика на тъгата, translated as The Physics of Sorrow (2011, translated 2015), embodies the sadness and suffering of the modernist periods of ideological conflict over Bulgarian national identity. The history of classical figures in Bulgarian narratives often involved Orpheus […]