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Discussion

In the folk traditions of South-eastern Europe and Hungary, the myth of the embedded woman is a conceptual trace of a myth and ritual long dead but commemorated in the canon of these cultures. In the nineteenth, twenty and twenty-first centuries, literature and art became its recycling area. A team at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences is currently conducting research on this issue (grant NCN 2020/37/B/HS2/00152). In this paper I will present the results of my research on the topos of the walled-up woman in the literature of Bulgarian modernism. Taking into account the perspective of gender studies, I will focus on the ideological layer of the texts of such authors as Petko Todorov, Asen Razcvetnikov, Ana Karima, Stilyan Chilingirov, among others. I will reflect on the ways in which these writers utilized this "remnant" of national/folk archaism, which throughout the twentieth century aroused moral concern.