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As can be seen from the planned events and from the very agenda of the current scientific session, the importance attached to the anniversary year in honor of the 700th anniversary of the Boyana frescoes is great, and this is completely understandable. Like all the planned events, the scientific session with its rich and important agenda poses a number of extremely complex and extremely timely questions to all of us. This will be seen from the very content of the reports. Here I will allow myself to dwell a few words on the significance of our session and in general on the anniversary celebration of the 700th anniversary of the Boyana frescoes. The entire celebration and especially the scientific session have the task of clarifying some issues of general ideological and political importance. These include, first of all, the question of our past and present attitude towards the Byzantine cultural heritage and, in particular, towards Byzantine art from the time before and after the Boyana frescoes. Two essential mistakes can be made here - one of a cosmopolitan and national-nihilistic nature, the other of a nationalistic-chauvinistic nature. There have been, and still are, historians, archaeologists, art critics who claim that the Boyana frescoes and our painting of that time in general had an essentially Byzantine character, developed along the path along which the art of the Byzantine Empire of that time developed. Insofar as some of these authors are forced to speak of a certain originality, originality, specific national character of our art, and in particular of the Boyana frescoes, they still do this as additional reservations. In this way, they essentially underestimate everything that our people and artists have brought to the common treasury of the then and later fine art and of the then and later culture in general. No matter how such views are motivated, no matter what evidence is sought in their defense, the fact remains that they essentially mean a denial and underestimation of the creative originality and value of our native art, and in particular the Boyana frescoes. From the content of almost all the reports, as well as from the film that we will see, we will have the opportunity to convince ourselves that such a view is incorrect and cannot be accepted as a guiding methodological principle in our further historical and specifically aesthetic research and assessments of our native artistic heritage, and in particular the Boyana frescoes.

1961 Booklet 6 *** - Contents of the 5th anniversary of "Literary Thought" - 1961

1962 Booklet 6 *** - Contents of the 4th anniversary of the magazine "Literary Thought" - 1962.

The "Selected Novels" library at the "Narodna Kultura" publishing house is entering its fifth anniversary. This period is quite sufficient to assess its achievements and weaknesses to date, to point out some shortcomings in the selection of contemporary novels. It is hardly necessary to emphasize how useful an undertaking it has proved to be. The best evidence of this is the great interest of readers in it. It could have been born and realized in the new and serene atmosphere after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, after which the cult barriers and stifling dogmas collapsed, in an environment of an objective view of the artistic values ​​of world literature. Through it, our reader is connected to everything good in literature, created by various peoples around the world.