ABSTRACT
A year of social and political changes, 1989 marked the beginning of Bulgarian society’s transition from totalitarianism to democracy. This transition has been associated with a shift in structures and values which, in turn, led to serious social and cultural changes, resulting from the collapse of an ideology and the set of norms that once supported it. These socio-cultural changes affected both form and content. They transformed the idiom of literature and the arts, which managed to liberate themselves from the oppressive dogma of socialist realism that assumed the superiority of political art and its educational functions to purely artistic quests.
