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Bogomil Raynov's story "Roads to Nowhere" belongs to the series of works by our most restless and searching fiction writers, in which, based on a liberated aesthetic ideal and an idea of ​​today's man enriched by the experience of the last decade, our complex and dramatic modernity is depicted. It captivates us with the sincere civic anxiety and anti-dogmatic pathos with which the author poses the problem of the harmony between the individual and the environment, which was disrupted during the cult of personality, of the freedom of thought and scientific research, of the self-awareness and creative realization of modern man. A writer with a clearly expressed active attitude towards reality, with a sharp analytical mind and a subtle sense for the current social conflicts and ideological and moral issues of our heroic and exciting modernity, Bogomil Raynov could not remain on the sidelines of the conversation that has begun in our literature in recent years on the most vital issues of modern life. "Modernity - this is us we - shares B. Raynov. Everyone defines their attitude towards it in their own way. The writer does it with his books. The problem of modernity - or rather a piece of it, is also reflected in my latest book "Roads to Nowhere. Why did I write it? This was necessary for me, I felt obliged to take my position on some phenomena of modernity, phenomena with distant roots in the past and with a belated, short-lived flowering in our time: careerism, slander, servility. Literature is always a battle for something better, against something that challenges it". The position that Bogomil Raynov takes in this story is a position of honesty, of 1 Bogomil Raynov, Roads to Nowhere, story, 1966 2 See Trud newspaper, issue 16, 1966 136 moral vigilance and the free citizen Danish conscience. The story "Roads to Nowhere" is one of those works of fiction whose artistic significance is determined primarily by the truthful recreation of the tense spiritual atmosphere of our decade, of the characteristic of our time, above all ideological and moral purposefulness of the intellectual pursuits of modern man. It is one of those works that many trust because they discover episodes from their own spiritual biography in them. It attracts us because with some of its moments it gives us a key to penetrating the mystery of the tragic end of personalities who, with their deeds and moral charm, have become our spiritual idols.