Echoes of September 1923 and September Literature in Slavic Countries

"September poetry" - this is how Georgi Bakalov first, and then Ivan Meshekov and others called the poems and stories of Nikola Furnadzhiev, Angel Karaliychev and Asen Raztsvetnikov, which appeared in "Nov Pat" as the first poetic echo of the majestic and terrible September days. Over time, literary critics began to add to the "September" artists Geo Milev and the other poets from "Plamak", Krum Kyulyavkov and the other collaborators of "Zvanar", Anton Strashimirov and the budding poets and writers from "Vedrina".... For more than four decades, September has been a constant and ageless theme in our poetry and prose, and September literature - as a new, aesthetically distinct moment in literary development - one of the important problems of literary history and criticism. The most vivid and characteristic, truly "September" stage is taken (it was this that contemporaries called "September") to be the period from 1923, immediately after the uprising until the April assassination attempt of 1925. However, starting from the specific historical moment itself, from the approximately equal illumination of the September theme, from the similar or identical aesthetic positions and artistic tasks of the September artists, one could add to this characteristic stage a year or two later - after the April assassination attempt until 1927 - with Strashimirov's activity in "Vedrina".