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From 1927, when the prominent Bulgarian literary scholar Boyan Penev virtually completed his voluminous "History of New Bulgarian Literature" in the form of university lectures, later systematized and published, to the publication of the second volume of the academic history of Bulgarian literature, four decades passed. Even before the printing of B. Penev's History, many issues of Bulgarian Renaissance literature had been studied, but it was the first and most complete scientific work that comprehensively reflected the literary development of the Bulgarian people from the appearance of "Slavonic-Bulgarian History" to the inspired poetry of Hristo Botev. The long period after its publication was filled with a number of new studies, some of which bear the stamp of original, in-depth scientific research. They shed light on individual aspects of the Bulgarian literary revival, the work of writers and men of letters of varying importance, as well as more specific problems related to the development of the periodical press, school work, pedagogical literature, folklore or the main literary genres, methods and trends. Even before September 9, 1944, very significant studies of a more general nature appeared, which further developed some of Dimitar Blagoev's ideas about the nature of the Bulgarian Revival, subjected certain bourgeois-idealist views and concepts to fundamental criticism, and, in accordance with the Marxist methodology of their authors, revealed in New Light the literary and social work of a number of writers.

In 1965, the Union of Bulgarian Writers held a theoretical conference on the topic "The National Originality of Contemporary Bulgarian Literature". The main reports and many of the speeches at the conference shed light on important aspects of the problem of the national originality of any literature in general, pointed out undoubted and well-noted features of this originality in Bulgarian literature during different periods of its centuries-old development. "In this area," the writer Dimitar Dimov noted in his speech at the time, "include, for example, the questions of the essence, origin and development of national originality in our folk epic and in the history of our old or contemporary literature, the question of the relative stability or relative lability of this originality in relation to the development of the world-historical process, the question of the relationship between the achievements of our national genius in culture and the achievements of other peoples, and finally the question of the relationship between the national and the international in our contemporary socialist literature.

The question of the manifestations of the Baroque in Bulgarian literature can be considered only in connection with the manifestations of the literary Baroque in general in the Slavic Orthodox area. Therefore, it is relatively easiest to establish the character of Bulgarian historiography of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The historiography of the Orthodox Slavs itself actually offers sufficiently rich material for comparison with Bulgarian historiography.