Svetozar Tsonev

How Dimcho Debelyanov worked on his poems, how the creative process unfolded for him, how the poet managed to "subjugate" the word to his poetic temperament, to infuse it with his own melodies of the soul, how the individual theme, image, feeling was born in him - the answer to these questions is determined not least by the specific analysis of the numerous corrections in his own poems.

Much has been written about the life and work of the poet of "Hidden Cries." And almost always with love and admiration for his rich artistic nature, with sincere piety for his original poetry. Debelyanov's poetry survived many of the critics' incorrect views of it, it withstood the objective assessment of time. Narrowing the circle of social impact of Debelyanov's poetry, artificially placing it within certain frameworks, our literary criticism of the past has accumulated quite a few prejudices about its essence, declaring it the poetry of symbolism - although freed from its extreme forms, from its unconditional aesthetic requirements. Critics continued to search for symbolism, "irreality" in it, to categorize and generalize, to formulate and deny formulas, and Debelyanov's poetry continued to live, to excite hearts, to inspire a love of life. Because in its most significant achievements it acquired the meaning of poetry-confession, of poetry-fate.

"Your Mother" - Botev's first poetic work not only sets a brilliant beginning to his work. It becomes a kind of concentration of his talent, it discovers the unsuspected possibilities of the individual to express himself. "Your Mother" marks the birth of our greatest poet, the extraordinary vitality and artistic uniqueness of his talent. There is no other example in our literature for such a spontaneous, unexpected birth of talent. Vazov, one of Botev's peers in poetry, long before the creation of "The Pine", a poem that brought him poetic fame, made very pale, insignificant "experiments". Slaveykov had to go the long way of imitative poetry before he found himself, his own poetic theme. Even Chintulov - a poet who stands closer to Botev with the immediate manifestation of his talent, in his first poems is almost completely "different" from the well-known poet of the romantic youth of our Revival - the author of the first rebellious songs.

Efrem Karanfilov has completed his critical trilogy "Heroes and Characters". This is a major creative work that enriches both the reader's culture and his creative attitude towards some of the brightest achievements of literary fiction.

Even while publishing separate excerpts from his book about Yordan Yovkov in the literary press, Simeon Sultanov reminded us of a writer, loved and forgotten, declared during his lifetime a living classic of Bulgarian literary prose... Always reminiscent of this Yovkov, who is well known today to every educated Bulgarian. And even then, the separate fragments of his book attracted the eye of the curious reader, who understood the insights and inspiration of the critic, who can talk to the writer's characters as if they were living people, who can discover, without artificial pathos and learned eloquence, the simple charm, poetic wisdom and greatness of one of the most original Bulgarian writers.