Vlachko Kunchev

G. Dimitrov's statements about literature and art, his assessments of cultural manifestations in our artistic life are not accidental and isolated. They are determined by the great importance, role and specific social function of art. G. Dimitrov is characterized by a subtle sense of the historical originality of artistic phenomena. Therefore, he always turns to the problems that have arisen with the greatest acuteness from the course and development of society. For example: his thoughts on the superintendent, illuminated in the report of the VII Congress of the Comintern, are an example of a creative concrete-historical approach. And this undoubtedly had a particularly important significance not only for the correct direction in the party policy on this issue, but also became a broad platform for the unification of honest talents throughout the world in defense of culture against the barbarism of fascism and the falsification of the heritage.

Belinsky wrote that the past helps us to better understand the present and suggests the future to us. By absorbing national trends in the artistic heritage and reflecting new phenomena in reality, our literature in the first years after September 9th paved the way for the later artistic peaks of our contemporary artistic creativity. Naturally, it exhibited a number of historical features - it bore the stamp of a comprehensive upsurge, breathed with the pathos of emotional display, resorted to a poster depiction of mass enthusiasm. It also had significant conquests. Works of art from that time still excite us today with their civic power, which has become a fruitful tradition in our literature. They conquer us with their active, effective, revolutionary humanism. The literature of those years and in the field of artistic mastery is an example that can be imitated in the days of our time.