The South of the Hometown and the Problem of Immigration

Tatiana Ichevska, Ivan Ruskov

„Paisii Hilendarski“ University of Plovdiv

https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-5-5T

Где да отида в бедата? Отгде да потърся утеха?

                Няма и котва сега лодката да задържи.

Сам ще прибягна – ще видиш – на вражия бог до олтара,

                никой прегърнат олтар не отстранява ръце.

Овидий

Abstract. Within this text, we examine the traumatic narrative of emigration presented in Bulgarian and Croatian texts from the 1990s onwards. Whether it is the fate of an individual character or a family, social, ethnic, and/or religious community, the problems in the texts selected for observation are multifaceted and multi-layered. During the observations, limited to texts selected by us, we will identify the common neuralgic points in them and seek answers to several key questions: why and how the life of a human immigrant becomes a traumatic narrative when he leaves his homeland, whether the exile dies completely or only a part of him dies, what are the places he inhabits abroad, how does the time of the exile abroad pass - in emptiness, in nostalgia, in memories and waiting for return, is it possible to return home.

Keywords: emigration; trauma; heterotopia; utopia; loneliness; foreigner; Bulgarian literature; Croatian literature

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