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The City People's Council in Stara Zagora has set itself the noble task of building a house-museum for the writers of Stara Zagora, to be called "Literary Stara Zagora" from now on. The initial stage of the creation of this first-of-its-kind institute in our country will be the collection and systematization of materials related to the life and creative activity of literary creators. The first results in this direction are encouraging. Some time ago, materials were made available to the council that reveal some moments of the life, public activity and artistic creativity of Kiril Hristov. Of particular interest among them is a literary study written by Iliya Ivanov (pseudonym - I. I. Radin). The author was a classmate and close friend of the poet, a former high school teacher in Shumen, a man with literary interests, erudition and culture, who died ten years ago. Radin himself evaluates his study very modestly, although the work arouses considerable interest not only from a factual point of view. In the introduction, Radin notes that he had absolutely no intention of making a serious study and assessment of the poetic work of Kiril Hristov and only for the sake of consistency and systematicity of the exposition has included here and there creative questions. The author's goal, as he himself defines it, is to examine some of the poet's works from their factual side; to indicate their origin and significance for the creation of one or another relationship of K. Hristov with people of literature and society; as well as to highlight some moments of his life and temperament, which "had created for him a heavy and suffocating atmosphere, in which it was difficult to breathe, let alone create, and which atmosphere forced him into voluntary exile". B And so far this interesting portrait of the man and poet Kiril Hristov has not been brought to public attention. It was sent by Radin to the poet's wife. In one of her letters to the curator of the "Geo Milev" museum in Stara Zagora, she shares: "For a long time, while he was healthy, I. Ivanov was occupied with the idea of ​​writing something more extensive about the works of his friend Kiril. He knew that I would preserve such a thing most carefully until it could be printed. When he finished the two articles (the second article is entitled "The Slavic Feeling in Kiril Hristov"), he gave them to me with a request that I keep them as my property and one day hand them over to wherever I find it useful." Here we publish excerpts from Radin's essay.

Recently, Minko Nikolov published his new book, dedicated to the work of Bertolt Brecht - the most significant playwright of the mid-twentieth century. This fact in itself shows how important the subject of the book is, what a gap this book fills in our contemporary art studies. The work on Brecht was also necessary because of a number of fruitless disputes about Brecht's methodology, which always revolved around Brecht, around arithmetic problems and never reached the heart, the meaning of the great creative work. These conversations created an atmosphere of suspicion in connection with the name of Brecht, they made gossip out of things that should be written about with the true mark of respect - with inner passion and civic conviction. I note this not only in connection with Minko Nikolov's book, but also because of something else. Because of that scientific conscientiousness that should be present in the assessment of great contemporary writers. It is true that Brecht does not fit into the needle's eye of narrow-mindedness and spiritual laziness, but this does not mean at all that we should deprive our socialist art of a Great Creator. Brecht may not belong to the geographical latitude that is closest to us, but he is a creature of the same forces that renew the climate, the spirit of our time. The struggle for Brecht, when it is led by a Marxist-critic, is not an apology for flat rationalism, it is only an affirmation of the rational, spiritual, active communist principle in Brecht's dramaturgy.