Science or pseudoscience?

I would not have undertaken to write a review of V. Velchev's study "Turgenev in Bulgaria" if I had not been interested in the numerous and promising reviews about it. They made me think that I had missed a very important study that has enriched our native literary studies and even gone beyond its narrow framework. I was particularly surprised by the insistence with which the inscrutable Soviet literary studies were suggested that the newly appeared work was a huge achievement for them as well. Even this seemed modest to one of my predecessors in review, so he (or rather - she) linked V. Velchev's study with the tasks of the seven-year plan in the USSR... Moreover - it is quite seriously claimed that not only is Soviet Turgenev studies enriched with new data on the political views of the writer-democrat, but general patterns in inter-national literary relations are revealed through the analysis of individual facts. The upcoming V International Slavic Congress in Sofia - 1963 is not forgotten either. After recalling V. Velchev's participation in the previous congress in Moscow, it is specially emphasized that this work is dedicated to the main issue of the congress-Slavic literary relations". "From the reviews of all three reviewers it follows that this is the first study of its kind in our country, that while earlier studies in this area were mainly of a bio- or bibliographic popular nature, now this study is distinguished by "a wide scope of the topic and the depth of the problems studied", that for the first time the influence of an individual writer on the socio-historical and literary process in our country is being studied so comprehensively and comprehensively. The harmonious composition of the work and many, many other of its merits have not been overlooked.