The Parable of the White Duck

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Pages: 169-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/YPMV4861

Abstract:

Parable of the White Duck from the collection Peyzazh s Kuche (Landscape with Dog). It is considered an ironic allegory of the past (before and after 1990). References are made to the texts of Yordan Yovkov, Emiliyan Stanev, Yordan Radichkov, Nikolay Haytov, etc. The introduction of Odata na radostta (Ode to Joy) as a main marker in an attempt to entice the duck to be happy is interpreted in two ways: as a negation of the time of totalitarianism on the one hand, marked by restrictions and domestication of wild rabbits, and, on the other hand, as a sarcastic allusion to the new time of freedom, reproducing a snobbish way of thinking, of complete union with the golden calf, a time of desecrated moral values, the change of elites and the naive illusion for change.

Keywords:

parable, allegory, symbols, ritual, morello cherry, water, profanity

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