Nadezhda Radulova’s book “Palimpsests in Literary Modernism. Hilda Doolittle, Jean Rhys, Marina Tsvetaeva” was presented last night in Hall 1 of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. It comes out with a 20-year delay, but as Prof. Miglena Nikolchina shared, the text has not lost its power.
The edition was presented by Vasil Vidinski and Dimitar Kamburov, who said that “the reader of this book is about to experience a series of initiations, unfolding like epiphanies”.
And this is what Bilyana Kurtasheva writes about it: “The palimpsest is a strange phenomenon of the Middle Ages: in order to reuse the written parchment, it is scraped off, bleached and then written on again. However, the erased text never completely disappears. Sooner or later” see through”. Ways to be read emerge.
Because of all this, the concept of palimpsest becomes a giant metaphor – in history, medieval studies, literary studies, even in psychoanalysis. Nadezhda Radulova’s book turns to this metaphor to offer us a happy combination of theory, history and a brave reading of well-known and not-so-well-known authors and texts.”
Listen to Miglena Nikolchina and Nadezhda Radulova in a report from the event.
Photos – Versus publishing house
Worked on the publication: Milena Ochipalska
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