Dzhenyu Vasilev

The City People's Council in Stara Zagora has set itself the noble task of building a house-museum for the writers of Stara Zagora, to be called "Literary Stara Zagora" from now on. The initial stage of the creation of this first-of-its-kind institute in our country will be the collection and systematization of materials related to the life and creative activity of literary creators. The first results in this direction are encouraging. Some time ago, materials were made available to the council that reveal some moments of the life, public activity and artistic creativity of Kiril Hristov. Of particular interest among them is a literary study written by Iliya Ivanov (pseudonym - I. I. Radin). The author was a classmate and close friend of the poet, a former high school teacher in Shumen, a man with literary interests, erudition and culture, who died ten years ago. Radin himself evaluates his study very modestly, although the work arouses considerable interest not only from a factual point of view. In the introduction, Radin notes that he had absolutely no intention of making a serious study and assessment of the poetic work of Kiril Hristov and only for the sake of consistency and systematicity of the exposition has included here and there creative questions. The author's goal, as he himself defines it, is to examine some of the poet's works from their factual side; to indicate their origin and significance for the creation of one or another relationship of K. Hristov with people of literature and society; as well as to highlight some moments of his life and temperament, which "had created for him a heavy and suffocating atmosphere, in which it was difficult to breathe, let alone create, and which atmosphere forced him into voluntary exile". B And so far this interesting portrait of the man and poet Kiril Hristov has not been brought to public attention. It was sent by Radin to the poet's wife. In one of her letters to the curator of the "Geo Milev" museum in Stara Zagora, she shares: "For a long time, while he was healthy, I. Ivanov was occupied with the idea of ​​writing something more extensive about the works of his friend Kiril. He knew that I would preserve such a thing most carefully until it could be printed. When he finished the two articles (the second article is entitled "The Slavic Feeling in Kiril Hristov"), he gave them to me with a request that I keep them as my property and one day hand them over to wherever I find it useful." Here we publish excerpts from Radin's essay.

In the minds of the Bulgarian reader, the idea of ​​contemporary Swedish literature is almost exhausted by the works of August Strindberg and Selma Lagerlöf, who are known to the relatively older generation in our country. In recent years, the names of several more authors, representatives of different periods and trends in Swedish literature, have also been added to the two classic masters, whose individual works have been shown very limitedly, mostly with short stories and novellas. But Swedish literature as a whole, with its problems and tasks, with its main directions and tendencies, with its new names and works, still stands as undiscovered land not only for the ordinary reader, but also for our literary science.