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One of the main issues in Yordan Yovkov's work is the question of tragedy in life and its artistic reflection in art. The writer is able to see and convey with irresistible force the tragic beginning in reality. With his best works, he convinces in an artistic way that tragedy can be caused not only by the immediate material conditions and circumstances inherent in a given time, but also by a number of individual qualities and characteristics acquired during the millennial existence of humanity. In this way, Yovkov shows that these qualities and characteristics, which are ultimately formed again under the determining role of material conditions (only not the current material conditions), have relative independence and very often have a great, even decisive influence on the fate of man. Such an artistic attitude comprehends, albeit insufficiently, the economic reasons, without ignoring other factors and circumstances for the existence and manifestation of tragedy. Although it increases the risk of errors in the artistic reflection of reality, it opens up great possibilities for the comprehensive and profound depiction of life. Thanks to it, in some of his best works Yovkov manages to reach true heights of artistic mastery in reflecting the tragic in reality.

First impressions of a writer can be deceptive, but they are physiognomic. The idea of ​​an artist that we get after our first acquaintance with him is sometimes so strong that it haunts us for life. Because the first meeting bears the features of a first discovery. Through it we come into contact with an unexpected, primary and unknown world. Anton Strashimirov entered our literature in the 1990s in a way that is remembered. He revealed himself without prefaces, without a preparatory period: directly, loudly and boldly. At the modest table of our literature of that time, he sat down without an invitation. It was as if he had been born with the self-confidence of a person who, before all others, has the right to declare about himself: "Many are called, few are called. I am one of the few called."