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"A person without secrets is like a flower without a scent. The scent is the secret of the flower. My house also has its secrets." The beginning of the story "Sunday" - one of the last works of Yordan Radichkov. "A rooster crows all night, we all hear it, but in whose bathroom the rooster is - no one knows." Here is the first secret... It may disappoint a little the one whom the opening words have set in a too secretive mood. Through a cooling and intriguing irony at the same time, the writer seems to be in a hurry to warn us: do not expect anything extraordinary, nothing exceptional, no heroic or tragic deeds, no deep psychological secrets. And indeed, whoever expected them did not wait for them until the last page of the story, dotted with ordinary incidents and scenes in an ordinary residential building on an ordinary Sunday.

Pencho Slaveykov's attitude towards our folk art is not one of the unclear and unknown issues of his thought and poetry. Moreover, he is one of those artists who turn to the folklore of his people not only directly - with his personal poetic work - but also through a number of statements, articles, studies. This facilitates the study of the problem posed and to a certain extent directs its solution. I will not dwell on Pencho Slaveykov's views on Bulgarian folk art, expressed theoretically, but on those that we find in works such as "Ralitsa", "Chunar", "Lud Gidiya", "Nerazelni", "Lyatna Vecher" and many others, which grew under the direct influence of folk works or were nourished by them. On the other hand, I will try to trace the dependence of Pencho Slaveykov's journalistic statements on the relationship between the talent of the artist and the talent of the folk singer; to what extent is the influence between them; to what extent these statements become a principle for his personal creativity.