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"The Reaper" is a node in Yordan Yovkov's work. It most vividly brings together the writer's contradictions. Talent, life, and the idea are constantly struggling here; rise and defeat alternate. We see how the author searches, how he expands his concepts to an all-encompassing philosophy of life, striving to outgrow the narrow-mindedness of religious views and place his work on a universal human level. It is wrong to attribute all the ideas in the novel as the author's ideas. Many of them are ideas of the characters, ideas that struggle with each other, compete, without being shared by the author. Nevertheless, they are related to the general artistic idea of ​​the work. Or, more precisely, without them it is unthinkable. It would not exist, it would not have artistic objectivity. "That's how I experienced these things in the village and that's how I felt them," says Yovkov about his novel "The Reaper." I experienced and felt - this is already a separation of the writer from the work. He looks from the position of an artist. He recreates the events, moving away from them, preserving his independence - to be truthful, honest to his feelings and life. But he was in this life. And he will be biased towards one or another of its sides. Can we separate ourselves from the essence, from the eternal human weakness - bias? We always belong to something, we exist for it and through it. It settles deep within us and colors our attitude to the world, our thoughts, views, spiritual thrills. It connects us firmly with the present or pushes us towards the past. We act or Contemplate.