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In the history of Bulgarian literature, Vasil Drumev occupies a certain place not only as a fiction writer and playwright, but also with his versatile critical activity. His literary-critical, cultural-historical and other articles create for him a name of a gifted and educated man of letters, who worked with love and understanding for the development of national literature, science, culture. He is one of the few Renaissance writers who received a relatively more systematic education and had the opportunity to study the literatures of other nations for a longer period. Thus, the natural talent of the author of the first Bulgarian novel, the aspiration that possessed him since adolescence and to serve the spiritual revival of his people with his pen find favorable conditions for maturation and development. And if the talented writer had not changed his calling precisely in the heyday of his creative powers, if he had not accepted the spiritual dignity, he would undoubtedly have enriched our national artistic and theoretical-critical thought to a much higher degree.

The creative path of Smirnensky, his development, his method have been directly or indirectly considered by almost everyone who has written about the great writer. And if this problem again attracts our attention, the reason for this is its relevance. Overcoming past artistic trends, schools and methods and mastering and developing the method of socialist realism - this is the main content of the literary process in our country for the quarter-century free development of our national literature. The problem of overcoming the worldview and creative limitations of the writers critical realists, modernists, etc. and their transition to the positions of socialist realism - this is the epochal task in the development of world literature; a task whose solution depends on the outcome of the great duel between labor and capital, between bourgeois and socialist ideology.