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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Even metaphors must be aesthetic
Bulgarian television is currently running an advertisement for the Socialist Party in this weekend's parliamentary elections. The ad shows two conservative politicians in the foreground while behind them diverse objects are hacked to bits with an axe. The daily Dnevnik disapproves: "You've got to think about the aesthetic quality of these images. How an aeroplane, a nuclear power station and a pension are chopped to bits with an axe. It's only a metaphor, people from the propaganda department will say. Yes, of course, but even metaphors must be aesthetic and appropriate. Otherwise they can rapidly take on frightening overtones. Showing an axe hacking things apart on prime time television can convey a subliminal message, especially in a state whose shady past is littered with axe murders. Only three months ago a boy of 15 was killed in this way by a 19-year old."
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Georgi Gospodinov on Bulgaria's silence about 1968
In Paris and Berlin much is being done to commemorate the year 1968, but in Bulgaria - apart from a purely academic discussion - there is silence on the subject. Georgi Gospodinov finds this a pity: "At the time there was also silence about the events of 1968 in Bulgaria. The explanation is simple, but this silence must be analysed. Bulgaria's 1968 was a non-event. I mean this in the deeper sense of the word, as an interruption, a disruption of the established order and of the normal course of events. The genuine and unpredictable events of 1956, 1968 and 1980 in Central and Eastern Europe undermined and threatened the social system. In comparison with the events in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, Bulgaria's case is a sad exception. ... Yet I still insist that non-events play an important role at both a human and a social level. Even a non-event has consequences for the future."
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