My Country is the Whole World

Women in Bulgarian and Anglo-American Literature

Vesela Katsarova's comparative study of Bulgarian and Anglo-American women writers is ground-breaking. With admirable scholarship - deep understanding of the texts under study and of modern literary theory - she reveals surprising links between the two groups of writers. She demonstrates convincingly that they share fundamental themes and techniques in their work.
The important consequence of our perception of Bulgarian writing is that we are able to understand that Bulgarian writers are not "exotic" or "marginal": on the contrary, we are able to place their work in the mainstream of world literature.

Allen Stevens
American college of Sofia