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Nikolay Raynov’s literary works in school textbooks during the interwar period in Bulgaria. Between the independent and the canonical religious imaginary

Zeszyty Łużyckie December 29, 2025 Elena Azmanova-Rudarska

Nikolay Raynov (1889–1954) developed a modernist literary corpus that combines orthodox and heterodox religious imagery grounded in mysticism, esotericism, and occultism. This article systematically examines Raynov’s parabiblical texts in cluded in Bulgarian school readers and anthologies between 1926 and 1942. His non-canonical writing reproduces canonical forms while subtly transforming their...