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The problem of literary ties, of the general cultural contact between the Slavic peoples at the V International Congress of Slavists was devoted to a number of reports and scientific communications. These influences were considered on a pan-Slavic or national level, with a view to a specific writer or work. Regularities were indicated, literary phenomena and features were studied. A huge amount of factual material was presented, which will make it possible to clarify controversial and indisputable concepts. Some of the reports, regardless of their concreteness in posing and developing individual questions, point to analogies and a more creative look into the essence and specificity of the literary process.

The name of one writer almost always points us to the name of the other - so much so that we feel connected in time and in the nature of their work. Elin Pelin and Yovkov are almost the same age: the former is three years older than the latter and lived twelve years after him. Both were born and raised in a village, but in different Bulgarian regions that are not similar. Elin Pelin is from Western Bulgaria, a child of a stubborn Shopian environment, among which he built his basic worldview and character, although after his twenty-third year (1900) he lived only in the capital, while Yovkov has longer and stronger roots in the village. The latter was nursed and spent his childhood in the wilderness of the Balkans - Zheravna; - and his adulthood - in flat Dobrudzha, near the border, where he taught until the Balkan War, so that he spent about thirty years of village life.