панорама

At the end of 1961, a "panorama" of contemporary literatures in the world was published, very luxuriously published in Paris in French by the well-known publishing house Hachet. The book is included in a series entitled "From the World", edited by Jean-Claude Hubert, with a foreword by the famous French essayist Roger Caillois, director of the Department of Literature and Art at UNESCO. "Contemporary Literatures in the World" is a collective work, carried out with the cooperation of twenty-one writers, among whom are the names of prominent French critics and connoisseurs of foreign literatures.

Our contemporary literary science and criticism already highlights figures who, in terms of the significance of their creative results, not only equal the objective value of what was achieved in the past by our most significant literary critics and historians, but also point to a higher, qualitatively new ideological and aesthetic development. Among them, Pantelei Zarev stands out with a true aesthetic feeling and the penetration of his research talent. The first volume of his new work "Panorama of Bulgarian Literature" is the beginning of a remarkable phenomenon in our contemporary literary science. It clearly reveals the peculiarities of Zarev's method and style as a literary critic and historian, and his great contribution to the construction of a Marxist, scientific history of Bulgarian literature, interpreting the literary process in its complexity and contradictions, with a view to its internal aesthetic laws, stands out convincingly.