The Language of the End and the Language of the World. The Apocalyptic Writing of Blaga Dimitrova

Maria Kalinova

Sofia University

https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-3-2M

Abstract. The article is dedicated to the pessimistic turn in Blaga Dimitrova’s prose, which comes into conflict with the propagandistic utilitarianism and the utopian telos of the era. The most general characteristics of the writer’s “apocalyptic writing” are outlined as a set of techniques that meet the political, ethical and aesthetic. The focus falls on the equivalence between nature and technology, bringing to the fore the duality of “techno-nature”, considered as a technology for the end of the world in the author’s anti-war novels, but also in a Heideggerian sense and as a phenomenon of the “revealing” of the truth. The analysis of the novel-poem “Avalanche” (1971) in the light of the unprecedented situation that humanity is entering in the 21st century, when natural disasters can no longer be separated from their technological, economic and political consequences, occupies a central place in the text.

Keywords: totalitarianism; atomization; prose of inversion; techno-nature; counter-spectacle; world-creation

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