бъдещето

From a book, the various parts of which were written in 1907, 1909 and 1964, one could not expect such unity of style and suggestion. But, however incredible it may be, a Bulgarian who talked with Plekhanov and listened to the speeches of Georgi Kirkov, who was friends with our greatest artists from the beginning of the century and was a guest of the old Revival activist Dragan Tsankov, a man who breathed the air of the same room with Renoir, Monet and Clemenceau, is our contemporary and presents himself with a new book - "Views on Literature and Art and Personal Memories" - articles on literature and painting, journalism and memoirs. It is difficult to speak of any kind of integrity, and yet this book is too homogeneous. It is united by the personality of its author, the unity of its style lies above all in the lack of violence over style, in a lightness that has its roots in the overall manifestation of the creative spirit.

A quarter century - this is, one might say, the minute hand of history. Especially for a people like the Bulgarians, whose history and culture have existed for so long. And at the same time, the last twenty-five years are an entire era in the social life and consciousness of this people, saturated with a huge and diverse historical experience. The desire to make sense of this experience, to understand its roots and meaning, is a characteristic feature of contemporary Bulgarian literature. Bulgarian writers with remarkable intensity develop the dramatic events of the September Uprising of 1923. For the first time in Europe, the dawn of anti-fascist battles flared up. The Bulgarian people took the front lines of the front, which had, as it soon became clear, global significance. The scale and historical meaning of this struggle are clearly felt in Georgi Karaslavov's epic "Ordinary People" and in Emilian Stanev's "Ivan Kondarev".