Zhelyu Avdzhiev The Travelogues of Anton Strashimirov
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Summary/Abstract
SummaryIt is known that Strashimirov traveled constantly throughout Bulgaria and got to know all corners of the country. Since his childhood and adolescence, he wandered around Northeastern Bulgaria. Later, as a tireless storyteller and political orator or as a simple observer and researcher of folk life and nature, he did not leave a single corner of his homeland where his foot had not set foot. During these trips, the writer was always among the people, studying their lives, delving deeply into their fate, and drawing material for his artistic works. And in most cases, he documents his diverse impressions in the most direct travel notes. Strashimirov describes with extraordinary vividness and fiction that which his eye has noticed in nature or in public life. He shares his thoughts on the most current political and literary problems in the most direct and sincere way, and often quite boldly. With the civic-patriotic pathos and fervor of his travel notes, Strashimirov appears to be the closest continuation of the work of such major representatives of travel writing in our country as Ivan Vazov and Aleko Konstantinov. Strashimirov's travel notes are very interesting and valuable pages in his very figurative literary work, which, however, due to the fact that they have not been republished, remain almost unknown to the wide circle of readers to this day.Keywords: Пътеписите, Антон, Страшимиров