* * * From the report of the Institute of Literature on its work in 1967.

In 1967, the Institute of Literature continued to work in the main areas of literary science in order to achieve new results in shedding light on the long-term development of Bulgarian literature and its individual periods, as well as in clarifying a number of basic problems of our contemporary literature and its connections with other national literatures; in order to pose and solve some theoretical problems and to propagate its achievements among the broad masses of the people, among literature teachers and youth.