On Reciprocity between Bulgarian and Serbian Literature: an Attempt at a Systematic Review of Old and New Processes

Author: Darina Doncheva
Paisiy Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Published in: Slavyanski dialozi, 2015, 16

Abstract: In their cohabitation over the centuries, Serbian and Bulgarian literature go through various forms of communication. The most long-lasting of these forms is the “specific inter-literary community”, which they build in the early Middle Ages, and which lasts until the mid-18^th century. In the 19^th and 20^th century there is a certain estrangement; however the 1990s mark a new period of intensified  relations between Bulgarian and Serbian literature.

Key words: Serbian and Bulgarian literature, specific inter-literary community, development asymmetry, complementarity, literary communication