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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.

By some ridiculous and offensive habit, we living people usually pass each other without looking deeper into each other's eyes, without thinking that an invisible star shines on each of our foreheads. Only when we lose a loved one do we realize what a void has opened up around us, which will never be filled. This is probably why a French author wrote that the world of our dead is richer than the world of the living. The fate of poets is even stranger. During their lifetime, people often coexist with them without recognizing their true features. Even in the clichéd dimensions of everyday life, their peculiarities seem like funny oddities. However, when a true poet is gone, his image suddenly takes on a different light. Even his small oddities gain significance and his every whim carries a mysterious meaning. Then everyone is curious to solve the "enigma."