Sociality, everyday life and tragic endings in Strashimirov

First impressions of a writer can be deceptive, but they are physiognomic. The idea of ​​an artist that we get after our first acquaintance with him is sometimes so strong that it haunts us for life. Because the first meeting bears the features of a first discovery. Through it we come into contact with an unexpected, primary and unknown world. Anton Strashimirov entered our literature in the 1990s in a way that is remembered. He revealed himself without prefaces, without a preparatory period: directly, loudly and boldly. At the modest table of our literature of that time, he sat down without an invitation. It was as if he had been born with the self-confidence of a person who, before all others, has the right to declare about himself: "Many are called, few are called. I am one of the few called."