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The conversations with Kamen Zidarov about the creative process spanned five meetings, the first on March 20, 1960, and the last on April 9, 2015, at his home on 35 Vasil Kolari Street. An alert, creative person, very cheerful, infectious with sparkling wit, revealed his inner wealth to me. Kamen Zidarov talks about everything with amazing ease. The flow of speech is colorful, dotted with wit. He can talk almost without pauses for an entire hour. During the conversations, there is no external tension or effort. Only at the end of the conversation do the slightly stiff movements of his hands betray his fatigue. He achieves a natural liveliness, without completely disappearing. In such moments of fatigue, Zidarov becomes extremely funny. He can entertain guests, jump from topic to topic, tell anecdotes, laugh contagiously, and participate in all kinds of conversations, except perhaps about the creative process... And this is It seems to be one of his forms of rest. Zidarov's great discipline and love of order were evident at all stages of the survey. From the very beginning, he stated that the work would take us four or at most five meetings. The nature of the matter that would occupy us is peculiarly lengthy, and I naturally doubted that the allotted time would be sufficient. But I very soon realized how unfounded Kamen's concerns were. Zidarov grasps the questions immediately and with great conscientiousness erases them. He struggles to remember all the interesting details that relate to the production of his dramas, but he never gets bogged down in unnecessary things, does not deviate in the wrong direction. His memory is amazingly clear and accurate. The playwright quickly and very concisely clarifies the essence of the problem, dwells on the most important and interesting, and then imperceptibly, without prefaces, moves on to a new group of questions. Especially at those places in the conversation, when the story came to life under the imitative tall of Zidarov.