Название: A History of Bulgarian Literature 865–1944
Автор: Charles A. Moser
Издательство: De Gruyter Mouton
Год: 1972
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 284
Размер: 19.8 Мб
Язык: английский

This volume treats Bulgarian literature in its historical context from the earliest times to 1944. Although for the sake of completeness I have included information on the post-1944 careers of authors who were prominent between the First and Second World Wars, I have not attempted any general summary of literary events in Bulgaria after that date, since this period is still unfolding and cannot yet be considered objectively. Many histories of national literatures slight recent writings, but in this book I have attempted to strike what seems to me a more equitable balance between the older and the modern periods in Bulgarian literature. Thus nearly half the volume is devoted to the roughly fifty years from 1896 to 1944, a division which in my opinion accurately reflects the literary — though not historical — value of works published before and after 1896. In order to avoid writing a history which at numerous points reduces to a listing of mere dates and names signifying little to the uninitiated reader, I have tried not even to mention an author if I could not give him at least a paragraph which would convey a notion of his individual literary personality.