This study consists of five chapters: one introductory chapter, three main chapters and a concluding/summarizing chapter.
The first chapter, INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE NATIVE, lays out the literary-historical and theoretical context of the problem of the native in new Bulgarian literature by investigating the following contextualizing fields: 1. Mythology, Folklore and the Problem of the Native; 2. The Problem of the Native and National Identity (The Western Model – Lateral Ethnicities; The Eastern Model – Vertical Ethnicities); 3. Pencho Slavejkov – The Modernist Understanding of the Native; and 4. Geo Milev – The Avant-Garde Understanding of the Native.






