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The interest in the issues of Bulgarian-Serbian and Bulgarian-Croatian literary, cultural and ideological-political relations in the past is conditioned primarily by the rich content of these relations, by their scientific significance. Not only neighboring, but also with a relatively equal political fate, Bulgarians, Serbs and Croats followed very similar directions and traditions in their spiritual development for nearly a century. Even in the conditions of their political slavery they managed to use each other's experience and achievements in the field of culture to create original artistic values. The informed reader knows how characteristic in this respect is the literary activity of writers such as Konstantin Ognjanović, Petko Slavejkov, Ljuben Karavelov and Hristo Botev, Jovan Raič, Dositej Obradović, Vuk Karadžić, Jovan Sterija Popović, Ivan Kukuljević-Sakčinski, Petar Preradović, August Harambašić and others, whose works penetrated all South Slavic countries, accelerating the process of the formation and development of South Slavic literatures.

From a book, the various parts of which were written in 1907, 1909 and 1964, one could not expect such unity of style and suggestion. But, however incredible it may be, a Bulgarian who talked with Plekhanov and listened to the speeches of Georgi Kirkov, who was friends with our greatest artists from the beginning of the century and was a guest of the old Revival activist Dragan Tsankov, a man who breathed the air of the same room with Renoir, Monet and Clemenceau, is our contemporary and presents himself with a new book - "Views on Literature and Art and Personal Memories" - articles on literature and painting, journalism and memoirs. It is difficult to speak of any kind of integrity, and yet this book is too homogeneous. It is united by the personality of its author, the unity of its style lies above all in the lack of violence over style, in a lightness that has its roots in the overall manifestation of the creative spirit.

The name of Georgi Tsanev is so inextricably linked with the history of our Literature that whenever we talk about its most prominent manifestations, we somehow connect them with the activity of criticism, and when we think about the man and the writer Georgi Tsanev, we see in his person one of the most active figures of critical thought in our country over the past few decades. A penetrating critic and historian with rich erudition, G. Tsanev has been working tirelessly in the literary field for more than four decades and Georgi Tsanev, Writers and Others. Ed. Bulgarian Writer, 1965 problem 6 makes his contribution to solving the great questions of our literary history and operational literary criticism. It is difficult to say where his merits are greater. The efforts of both the critic and the historian are equally noble and the results of them equally significant for our literature. Because the manifestations of both. and on the other, no matter how unnatural this division of the single essence of the creator-literate person may sound, are related to the most current, most difficult and neuralgic problems and conditions of our literary life.