Научната

The victory of 9. IX. 1944 opened a new era both in the socio-political development of the Bulgarian people and in the development of Bulgarian science. The people's power, the Bulgarian Communist Party have always emphasized that the construction of a socialist society is impossible without the comprehensive development of all branches of science and are constantly making efforts to create the necessary conditions for its flourishing. And if the natural, mathematical, technical sciences were harnessed to the creation of the material base of society, then the humanitarian sciences had to contribute to the formation of a new consciousness, of new moral, ethical, philosophical views in people - builders of socialism and communism. Hence the special importance of science, which deals with the problems of literature - one of the most active factors for ideological Education and re-education, for the creation in man of a new worldview, a new socialist worldview.

As can be seen from the planned events and from the very agenda of the current scientific session, the importance attached to the anniversary year in honor of the 700th anniversary of the Boyana frescoes is great, and this is completely understandable. Like all the planned events, the scientific session with its rich and important agenda poses a number of extremely complex and extremely timely questions to all of us. This will be seen from the very content of the reports. Here I will allow myself to dwell a few words on the significance of our session and in general on the anniversary celebration of the 700th anniversary of the Boyana frescoes. The entire celebration and especially the scientific session have the task of clarifying some issues of general ideological and political importance. These include, first of all, the question of our past and present attitude towards the Byzantine cultural heritage and, in particular, towards Byzantine art from the time before and after the Boyana frescoes. Two essential mistakes can be made here - one of a cosmopolitan and national-nihilistic nature, the other of a nationalistic-chauvinistic nature. There have been, and still are, historians, archaeologists, art critics who claim that the Boyana frescoes and our painting of that time in general had an essentially Byzantine character, developed along the path along which the art of the Byzantine Empire of that time developed. Insofar as some of these authors are forced to speak of a certain originality, originality, specific national character of our art, and in particular of the Boyana frescoes, they still do this as additional reservations. In this way, they essentially underestimate everything that our people and artists have brought to the common treasury of the then and later fine art and of the then and later culture in general. No matter how such views are motivated, no matter what evidence is sought in their defense, the fact remains that they essentially mean a denial and underestimation of the creative originality and value of our native art, and in particular the Boyana frescoes. From the content of almost all the reports, as well as from the film that we will see, we will have the opportunity to convince ourselves that such a view is incorrect and cannot be accepted as a guiding methodological principle in our further historical and specifically aesthetic research and assessments of our native artistic heritage, and in particular the Boyana frescoes.

What are the main stages in the development of the mutual relations between the Slavic Literatures? 2. What does comparative Slavic literary studies contribute to the development of literary theory and practice? 3. What are the main problems of the comparative study of the South Slavic Literatures? 4. What are the forms of influence of one literature on another (based on material from Slavic literatures)? 5. What is the role of the assimilation of foreign literary works in the periods of formation of Slavic national literatures? 6. What is the role of the Russian revolutionary democrats in the emergence and development of materialist literary thought in Slavic countries? 7. What phenomena from Slavic literatures have had an impact on the development of non-Slavic literatures? 8. Can some common typological features and common stages in the development of satire in Slavic literatures be identified? B 9. What is the significance of the study of the relations between Slavic literatures and other arts? 10. What is the role of the creative individuality of the writer in the general process of literary development (with regard to Slavic literatures from different eras)? 11. How to create a unification of literary terminology? 12. When did literature for young people arise in the individual Slavic literatures?

The bulletin is published in two languages ​​(Russian and French) and aims to present with short annotations the scientific works published during the past year. On its cover, instead of the publishing house, the names of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Committee for Technical Progress and the Center for Scientific and Technical Information and Documentation appear. In addition to the responsible secretary Zh. Doseva, the editorial board includes: B. Bozhikov (stenography), K. Genov (literary studies) and I. Gulbov (linguistics). As noted in a note to the reader, the individual issues do not include abstracts of selected scientific works published in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. The last issue contains information on the scientific works (articles, studies and monographs) published in 1961.