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Taking his place among the greatest humanist writers of the 20th century, Karel Čapek is still insufficiently studied. European educated and gifted with a flexible analytical mind, this "terrible child" of Slavism from the lineage of the great French rationalists-mockers often escapes the literary criticism cutter, mainly due to the deceptive simplicity of his artistic manner. Everything is supposedly in order: the images - images, albeit slightly caricatured, the plots - plots with all their criminal twists, the language - emphatically pure and clear, and then, as if out of nowhere, you are grabbed by an insidious subtext that makes you "suspicious" of the author's real intentions. The mystery "what exactly does he want to tell us", which in turn arises in each of his works, is even more intensified by his undetermined, albeit generally humane political position. If we add the aesthetic diversity of Čapek's work, it will become clear why so many contradictory opinions, misunderstandings, and even erroneous opinions have accumulated around him.

In the lively discussions about Karavelov's worldview and work in recent years, the Soviet philosopher Lev Valentinovich Vorobyov also intervened. His articles appeared in Bulgarian scientific publications, magazines and newspapers, which suggested resourceful and original thought, an open-minded attitude towards facts, controversial concepts and their authors. In 1962, his book "Philosophical and Sociological Views of Lyubena Karavelova" was published. The following year, the monograph "Lyuben Karavelov. Worldview and Work" appeared. The two studies, with certain compositional changes, represent the doctoral dissertation of L. V. Vorobyov, which he defended in June 1962 in Kiev. While in the first book the researcher is exclusively interested in the ideology of the Bulgarian revolutionary, the second study gives a comprehensive idea of ​​Karavelov - the public figure, the writer, the encyclopedist. Without belittling the value of "Philosophical and Sociological Views of Lyubena Karavelova", we will express our opinion on the second book of the Soviet scientist. In it, the author thoroughly presents all his observations and conclusions, which are also the subject of his first study.