https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1069
The text examines the image of the Gypsies (Romani protagonists) in Yordan Radichkov’s body of work, as a figure of passivity. The Roma are portrayed as anonymous and marginal, not taking action, unwilling to participate in organized forms of resistance against their circumstances. Though they are subject to political and state violence, they do not produce a political identity, remaining instead in a negative-based social role of a “nobody, situated nowhere”. Interestingly, it is precisely such disposition, i.e. that of not resisting the conditions in which they exist, of communicating with others without becoming part of their order, and of being necessarily involved and voluntarily distanced at the same time, which turns this image of the “Gypsies” into an allegory of the relations of Radichkov's works towards the power and authority of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria; especially in view of the acceptance of these works by the official literary institution without inclusion in any representative canon of works and authors.
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