критик

"Galileo of modern aesthetics!" (A. Richards), "a seer, a teacher who sheds light on life" (J. Mackail), the founder of many modern artistic and literary trends... For our reader, these definitions of the English romantic poet S. T. Coleridge sound strange and lofty. Some bourgeois literary critics also accept that they are lofty, but what is their subtext, what is the reason for bourgeois literary criticism's fascination with Coleridge, and whether he can only be a "progenitor" of the Neoplatonists, the intuitionists, the Freudians, the "stream of consciousness" - this is still a question that Marxist literary criticism has not answered exhaustively.

I trust these critics, who bring with them the atmosphere of art, its wonderful hypnosis. In recent years, they have become more and more numerous. There is no smell of office mold or annoying lecturer's edification from them. They displace from the consciousness of my generation the idea of ​​criticism as a prototype of Chekhov's man in a case, which had become entrenched in our country from the boring syllogisms of high school textbooks and christami from a dozen years ago... They do not talk to readers from a podium. Academic dignity is alien to them. With their infectious enthusiasm, with their strange, unceasing fervor, they resemble the artists from poor attic studios, where, amidst the scattered motley of paints, canvases, and cheap furniture, endless passionate arguments about art take place, wine is drunk and new poems are recited, dancing is madly done, and rebellious avant-garde manifestos are read under the attic vaults...

Dimitar Dimitrov - a name that says almost nothing to the modern reader. One by one, those who, in their unfaded memories from more than six decades ago, could restore something of the image of this enthusiastic idealist - with the fragile physical figure of a restless workers' organizer, with the restless and temperamental pen of a talented publicist, with the searching thought of a promising socialist literary critic and scholar - are leaving. Dimitar Dimitrov is from the phalanx of the first socialist activists who, even in that early era, saw the need for a practical struggle for the liberation of the working class and participated directly in this struggle. And as writers, they are not contemplatives, but fighters who clear the way for socialist ideology and literature. For about 5-6 years of public and literary activity, he leaves an interesting and meaningful legacy that has its own definite place in our Marxist criticism since the end of the century. His social and literary work, his life, was very quickly put to an end by the "yellow guest", which suppressed so many young socialist forces.