фейлетон

The feuilleton work of Hristo Botev is not large in volume - only seven works and covers a relatively short period of time - about two years. But it gave expression to characteristic trends in the development of satirical prose during the Revival and finally established the feuilleton as a full-fledged form in our fiction. Botev's feuilleton appears on the pages of the newspaper "Budilniki". Obviously, these are not the writer's first attempts at journalistic satire, nor his initial searches in the field of the feuilleton genre. Botev's humorous newspaper reflects the capabilities of a mature satirist and the individual handwriting of a master of the feuilleton. When issue 1 of "Budilniki" was published, Hristo Botev had already been working for ten months in the editorial office of the newspaper "Nezavisimost" as Karavelov's assistant. His idea of ​​publishing a satirical newspaper was not detached from the tasks that faced the organ of the revolutionary party. The intensification of socio-political struggles, the activation of anti-revolutionary elements, especially after the capture and death of V. Levski, forced the satirical denunciation from the positions of the revolution to seek a wider field of action. During the period 1869-1876, numerous attempts were made in the country and among the emigration to publish satirical newspapers. And in the organ of the revolutionary party itself, we observe, along with the maintenance of a permanent satirical column, the invasion of the satirical element in almost all journalistic forms, up to the editorial notes of the newspaper. Botev's "Alarm Clock" undoubtedly arose as an assistant to the revolutionary organ, in order to raise the exposing pathos of the column "Do you know who we are?"