Aleksandar Milev

The Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has already begun publishing the four-volume "History of Bulgarian Literature". The management of the institute had been preparing for this important and responsible work for many years. It carried out a great deal of preparatory work. After discussion and broad debate, a general periodization of our literature was adopted based on important and essential features, the characteristics of the socio-economic formations known in historical development, their determining impact on ideology, and through the ideological atmosphere on artistic creativity, as well as the internal laws of literary development" (10). The history of Bulgarian literature is divided into three main periods: 1. Old Bulgarian literature - from the 9th century to the middle of the 18th century (the writing of "Slavonic-Bulgarian History" by hieromonk Paisii of Hilendar); 2. New Bulgarian literature - from the middle of the 18th century to 9. IX. 1944, divided into two subperiods: a. Literature of the Revival - from the middle of the 18th century to 1878; b. Literature from the Liberation to 9. IX. 1944; 3. Literature during the era of the construction of socialism - from 9. IX. 1944 to the present day (10). "History of Bulgarian Literature" will be published in four volumes: one volume for the first and third periods, and two volumes for the second period - one for each subsection.