Emiliya Staycheva

Ricarda Huh is the heiress of a great humanist art. A student of Goethe and Keller, brought up in the spirit of the democratic bourgeoisie before 1848, Ricarda Huh continues the classical line in the development of German literature and occupies a place in its history alongside such major figures as Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse. The scope of her curiosity is wide. History and philosophy, along with literature, are areas that attract her to her last day. Her versatile interests make her express herself creatively in a variety of genres: from the critical essay to the historical and philosophical study, from the small lyric poem through the story, the novel and the novel to the multi-volume epic. The unifying link in Ricarda Huh's artistic and critical work is her Renaissance worldview. The collective image in her art is the man who has overcome bourgeois morality and who is burning to fully develop and realize himself. Huh's humanism is always subordinated to the problems of modernity. When she turns her historical novels to heroic past times, she calls upon the present ("The Great War in Germany", "Wallenstein", "The Life of Count Federigo Confalonieri". The Struggle for Rome", etc.). She points out to her contemporaries ideals that will shape the man of the future.