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The previous issue of "Literary Thought" included the article by the young literary critic Lyuben Georgiev "Three Rivals". The author poses and examines in his own way some questions of our contemporary lyric poetry and expresses an opinion on the development of the three, in his opinion, the foremost poets among the young" - Ivan Radoev, Georgi Dzhagarov and Pavel Matev. The editorial staff expected that Lyuben Georgiev's article would arouse a number of objections, would provoke a dispute over many assessments and some general conclusions. But without such polemical "snaps" the broad exchange of opinions and assessments that Comrade Todor Zhivkov spoke about in his speech to the writers could not have taken place.

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.

In vol. 4 of "Literary Thought" (pp. 137-138) with a critical note on the literary studies department in issue 4 of the Abstract Bulletin for Linguistics, Literary Studies and Ethnography, published by the Center for Scientific and Technical Information and Documentation at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Along with some reasonably pointed out omissions and inaccuracies in the content of the bulletin, the author of the note, Lyuben Georgiev, has shown very unenviable awareness. He has also succumbed to bad suspicion. Therefore, as the editor of the mentioned department, I feel obliged to come up with the present counter-reply.