историческото

Due to centuries of foreign oppression, the Bulgarian nation underwent a peculiar socio-historical development. Our national revival began only in the second half of the 18th century. However, cultural and historical processes have become particularly intense since then. In just one century (1762-1878), national creative thought went through several stages, only to soon rise to great heights. Continuing the traditions of the Revival, literary science from the beginning of our century quickly expanded its problematic, adopting reliable principles for a more comprehensive interpretation of cultural and aesthetic phenomena and processes. Both the great writers and critics of the Revival, and the few academically educated literary scholars after the Liberation, demonstrated a number of correct understandings regarding the diverse prerequisites for the formation of the Bulgarian national culture and literature, regarding the interrelationships and interdependence of the ideological and artistic phenomena of the individual peoples. Directing their research gaze towards the problems of our national revival, the first great Bulgarian literary historians realized that they could not be comprehensively and truthfully illuminated if one did not take into account similar processes and phenomena in neighboring countries - Greece, Serbia, Romania, Russia, with which our people communicated in different ways, through diverse forms.

During the solemn scientific session for the 1050th anniversary of the death of Clement of Ohrid, achieving its jubilee purpose with the greatest accuracy, the cleverly and interestingly written book by Nadezhda Dragova about the outstanding Bulgarian and Slavic enlightener was published. Without a doubt, in the bibliographies of those dedicated to Clement 1 N. Dragova, Kliment Ohridski. A Story about Him and His Enemies. S., Publishing House of the National Council of the Fatherland Front, 1966, 266 p. Works it will find its place in the section "popular scientific literature". It is not excluded that it will be passed over negligently by both individual representatives of strict academic thought and some of the creators of contemporary historical fiction, if they a priori attribute to it the known shortcomings of books of its kind. And it is neither elementary, nor dry and lifeless. From its first to its last page, we are greeted by the results of a perfectly clear, meticulously thought out and precisely executed plan, and we are delighted by the qualities of a high-class popularizer.