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Slavic studies in Norway have their support at the University of Oslo, at the Slavic Institute in the same city, and in some editorial offices of progressive newspapers and magazines. Prominent Slavicists are Professor Christian Stang, Professor A. Galis, and Professor Krag. According to the famous Soviet linguist Bernstein, Professor Stang is the first accentologist in Slavic philology. "When Stang publishes a new work, we, Soviet researchers, put everything else aside to get acquainted with it," says Berstein. Professor Erik Krag was also among the Norwegian delegates. He read a report at the congress on the topic "Some Notes on Dostoevsky's Style" (an excerpt from his book on Dostoevsky, which was published last year). The Russian scholar Pustovoit, in the discussions after the report, pointed out some characteristic differences in the language of the young and older Dostoevsky, noting that the report could also be interesting for linguists. Among the eight delegates from Norway at the Fifth International Slavic Congress was the Norwegian literary critic Martin Nag. The tall, blue-eyed son of the distant side of the fjords, about whom we know so little, aroused undisguised interest and sympathy among the delegates from the moment he appeared. He was born in 1927 in the city of Stavanger. He graduated in Slavic studies in Oslo. As a literary, theater critic and translator from Slavic languages, he shows particular interest in the work of Mayakovsky, on whom he wrote his doctoral dissertation. He has translated poems by Tvardovsky, Akhmadulina, and Rozhdestvensky into Norwegian. A great friend of Bulgaria, Martin Nag is an active figure in the Norwegian-Bulgarian Society in Oslo. An enthusiastic popularizer of Bulgarian literature in Norway, he has already translated quite a few works by Bulgarian poets, including the poem "September" by Geo Milev. He is currently working on translations of contemporary Bulgarian poetry. The young Norwegian scholar collaborated as a literary critic in the newspaper "Friheten", an organ of the Norwegian Communist Party. At one of the meetings of the Slavic Congress, M. Nag read a report on the topic "Vaptsarov and Mayakovsky". The report, read in Bulgarian, was very well received by the delegates, especially the Bulgarians. Recently, articles written by Martin Nag have appeared in the pages of the Norwegian press, in which the young Slavic scholar shares with his compatriots his impressions of the Fifth International Slavic Congress and of our country and people.

Although it has long traditions, comparative literary studies has attracted in recent years an increasingly wide circle of representatives of historical-literary, critical and theoretical-aesthetic thought. In the efforts to study the general and specific laws of literary development, to illuminate artistic phenomena from more sides, both as a result of national, concrete-historical conditions, and as phenomena in the fabric of which we find much similarity, resulting from the constant relationships with what was conquered by other peoples, comparative interpretation is proving to be increasingly effective. An indisputable contribution to this direction is made by Marxist literary studies, which, overcoming the limitations of bourgeois comparative studies in the past, in dispute with contemporary idealistic concepts and methods, places the comparative consideration of artistic processes and works on a broad socio-historical, cultural-sociological, philosophical-aesthetic basis. In this way, not only are the prerequisites and driving forces for the development of national literatures revealed, but on the basis of their study, a more complete illumination of the general processes characterizing the literary life of many countries and peoples is achieved.