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Bulgarian scientific and cultural workers, and especially Bulgarian writers, joining the nationwide celebration of the 90th anniversary of the greatest man of our time, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, rightly dwell first of all on the new that Lenin's creative genius brought to all areas of science, culture, art, education, politics, construction, etc. One of the issues that has always deeply concerned our cultural workers and writers is the question of the party affiliation of literature and art in general. It is included in almost all scientific and general ideological sessions, meetings and conferences that are taking place and are yet to take place in our country in connection with the 90th anniversary of V. I. Lenin, and the Union of Bulgarian Writers has also organized a special scientific session dedicated to the question of the party affiliation of literature and art in general. The issue does not leave the pages of the relevant magazines, newspapers and other periodicals and non-periodical publications.

The editorial office received a letter from Dr. Penyo Rusev, which says: I would like to draw your attention to the following: 1. While examining the story "Andreshko", on page 51 (vol. 5, 1960 of the magazine "Literary Thought") M. Dragostinova writes that in my book "The Creativity of Elin Elin up to the Balkan War" a methodology was manifested that seeks to closely link the image with some real prototype; that in my opinion the spontaneous rebel Andreshko is a member of the Agricultural Union" and that by studying and observing the life and activities of this organization, Elin Pelin discovered his hero precisely in its ranks". By forcing and attributing all this to me, M. Dragostinova concludes: "Such an automatic application of historical facts will lead us to a completely empirical approach to literary phenomena". The statements attributed to me by M. Dragostinova are not in my book. On the contrary, in it I write: "The question of whether Andreshko belongs to the farmers or the socialists must be relegated to the circle of fortune-telling" (pp. 114-115). Moreover, I claim that "it is irrelevant" whether we attribute Andreshko to the farmers or the socialists of that time.