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It is hardly possible to communicate with painters without hearing a complaint that is repeated all too often when it comes to portraiture: "It is a pain to paint." And this complaint, so widespread, does not surprise anyone. If there are "painful" things in any work, they will obviously also manifest themselves in the efforts to recreate the human image. There is nothing unusual in the fact that a painter fails to discover in a certain model such qualities that do not nourish his creative imagination and do not excite his thirst for search, or vice versa - does not find the strength within himself to rise to the spiritual and plastic tasks that another model sets for him. In both cases he is confronted with difficulties that apply with equal force to all the arts and are considered something quite natural in creative practice. However, something else will seem more strange - that these difficulties apply to a certain extent also to certain manifestations of human activity that lie outside the scope of art. Such a manifestation is literary criticism, which, although in a different area of ​​spiritual interests, also has the task of discovering the characteristic in a person, taken as a creator of artistic values, and to outline his image with the means of the journalistic word. That is why the literary connoisseur, for whom to a certain extent the laws of inspiration also apply, in turn faces similar difficulties and in turn, for one reason or another, can say: "This author does not lend itself to me." At least I have had the opportunity to face such a failure more than once and give in. And I must admit that for many years one of the "tormenting" authors for me was none other than Radoj Ralin.

On June 23, 1966, the Scientific Council at the Institute of Literature also discussed the work of senior research fellow Ganka Naydenova "The Romantic Image - a Symbol of the Creator". In his written review, Professor Stefan Stanchev made a detailed description of the work. According to him, Naydenova's work represents an original scientific study with a contributing character. The author's concepts are built on rich material from all of Western European literature. The material is treated originally with a view to the author's thesis. During the discussion of G. Naydenova's work, the following spoke: Professor Emil Georgiev, Professor Stoyan Karolev, senior research fellow Minko Nikolov, academician M. Arnaudev, senior research fellow Krastvo Genov and the director of the institute Stoyko Bozhkov. The speeches emphasized the importance of the topic, the richness of the material on which the work is built and the original analyses and author's concepts. It was emphasized that the work has contribution. The speakers made some recommendations: greater unification and stretching of the material in view of the central theme; greater precision of some formulations; the chapter on Bulgarian literature to be dropped because it feels artificially attached. In his closing remarks, the director of the institute, Stoyko Bozhkov, recommended that the author take into account the wishes made and unify the material in view of the topic set, to direct her attention to the concepts she deals with and which characterize phenomena that are different in their genesis.