“THE BOOK AS A WORLD”: MITKO MADZUNKOV'S LITERARY ONTOSTRATEGIES

Starting from the theoretical premises for the ontological dominant of postmodernist prose, the text aims to interpret the manifestations of this dominant in the Mitko Madzhunkov's novels: Времето на ирвасите, Птиците од ланските гнезда и Правта на библиотеките. The interpretive focus is placed on two levels: first, on the interpretation of the repertoire of ontological themes that are articulated in the novels, mainly related to the games between the texts and the worlds projected in them; second, on the interpretation of the repertoire of procedures (metafictional and intertextual) by which those themes are placed in the foreground in the novels. Keywords: ontological dominant; postmodernist novel; metafiction; intertextuality