АЦО ШОПОВ И ЦРНОТО СОНЦЕ / ACO ŠOPOV AND THE BLACK SUN

Abstract

“The black Sun” motif will be interpreted in this paper. The focus of analysis will be
the cycle of “the Black Sun” from the collection “Reader of the ashes” (1970). Guided by the
arguments of the famous theorist Jean Cohen (the study “Theory of the figures of speech”
and the book The Structure of Poetic Language) and the General Rhetoric of the Mi Group
(the famous neo-rhetorists from Liège), the in-depth logical structure (general) of the
oxymoron will be defined as a figure and the oxymoron “black sun” more precisely. We
will also briefly refer to two important articles about the black sun by Atanas Vangelov in
Šopov, i.e. his understanding of the black sun as an explicit and implicit thematic realization.
Furthermore, we will dwell on the problem of “solarity”, as well as on the symbolic set of the
black sun. In this case, we will refer to the book “The Black Sun: Depression and Melancholy”
by Julia Kristeva. The solar space of the black sun is defined as anti-space by us. The
properties of the black sun in an appositive register of tautological sequences are going
to be categorized. The analysis of the symbolic set (symbolic constellation in Vangelov’s
dictionary) and the appositive register clearly shows that the black sun has polymorphic
symbolism. That symbolism takes on diabolical features at times. The ambivalent status of
the black sun “de-normalizes” it and, ultimately, challenges the subject (material) reality,
that is, the reality has taken on its attributes.