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Efrem Karanfilov is one of those authors for whom writing is not a casual occupation. He is usually not satisfied with a banal, impersonal examination of works and problems, because writing an article for him is a way to express himself, to express his attitude towards things, to communicate his discoveries about people and literature. He feels a writing vocation within himself, he is possessed by the ambition to involve readers in his thoughts, to instill in them his convictions. Naturally, the literary works he writes about are not indifferent to him, his attitude towards them is very active. With their images and ideas, they unleash the flow of his own thoughts and moods and always evoke certain emotional reactions. These features apply to E. Karanfilov's work in general, but they are manifested to the highest degree in his essays. Because this is indeed a very suitable genre for an author with his inclinations and temperament. The essay gives him exactly that complete freedom that he needs - to follow his thoughts, unbound by preconditions.

"Your Mother" - Botev's first poetic work not only sets a brilliant beginning to his work. It becomes a kind of concentration of his talent, it discovers the unsuspected possibilities of the individual to express himself. "Your Mother" marks the birth of our greatest poet, the extraordinary vitality and artistic uniqueness of his talent. There is no other example in our literature for such a spontaneous, unexpected birth of talent. Vazov, one of Botev's peers in poetry, long before the creation of "The Pine", a poem that brought him poetic fame, made very pale, insignificant "experiments". Slaveykov had to go the long way of imitative poetry before he found himself, his own poetic theme. Even Chintulov - a poet who stands closer to Botev with the immediate manifestation of his talent, in his first poems is almost completely "different" from the well-known poet of the romantic youth of our Revival - the author of the first rebellious songs.