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The Nature of Sacrifice in Botev’s Poetry
ISSN: 2367 - 8585
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The Nature of Sacrifice in Botev’s Poetry
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Publisher: Proglas St. Cyril And St. Methodius University Press
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Abstract
The present study explores two martyrological poems by HristoBotev – “The Hanging of Vasil Levski†and “Hadji Dimitarâ€. Both works are thought of as scenes of sacrifice. In Botev’s poetry it is only in these two works that a landscape, with a sacrificial crisis in its centre, appears. The sacrifice is represented as an event of significant and notable importance to the community. In “Hadji Dimitarâ€, however, nature takes the place of the community. I focus on the agrarian substrate of the poem in relation to its mythological potential. Botev provides two different models of consecration: Judeo-Christian (“The Hanging of Vasil Levskiâ€) and pagan (“Hadji Dimitarâ€). Ultimately, the author invents the landscape of a modern sacrifice, based on an anarchistic sensitivity, while indirectly including himself in that same landscape.
