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Boris Delchev's new book is devoted entirely to the work of the generation of poets born between the two wars, most of whom developed their creative work after September 9th. This fact alone indicates that it has a direct bearing on the vital issues of our contemporary literature. Written with skill and argumentation, with intellectual nerve, the book draws the creative physiognomies of Veselin Khanchev, Bozhidar Bozhilov, Aleksandar Gerov, Ivan Radoev, Aleksandar Vutimski, Tsvetan Spasov. Delchev sheds abundant light on the complex problematics and contradictions of their poetry, on the winding creative and civic path of the main poets of the generation.

After her book on Bulgarian poetry in the period 1923-1944, Rozalia Lykova published her study of fiction during the same period. Having correctly understood the specifics of the literary process between the two wars, she set about characterizing it comprehensively and shedding abundant light on the work of its main representatives, with her inherent temperament. Before us is a researcher with a certain profile, who is able to discover the physiognomic in the artist's art, to determine his place in the development of Bulgarian literature. Her work is an interesting study of literary material, which is still insufficiently developed by our literary science. The book impresses with its correct assessments, with its characterization of the authors and the atmosphere of their work, and with its overall picture of literary life. Lykova's work is defined in the publisher's note as "a brief literary history of our fiction between the two wars." It is essential to see what distinguishes the author's literary-historical method. Her study contains essays on various artists and five general chapters, in which the literary historian's approach manifests itself with its characteristic features. The author not only knows the literary facts. She is able to penetrate behind them, into the spirit of the era in which social strata had shifted so that people's lives were emerging from their old trough, the rusty locks of social conventions and retrogradeness were broken, and new truths and ideals were born. The events also echoed in the sphere of literary phenomena. The foundations of a new literary movement were being laid. Existing methods of depiction could not meet the imperatives of the new era, which taught writers to analyze precisely, to see the true essence of things, to assess their real value.