This paper deals with two types of dependence of the Bulgarian journalists from the 19th century – the dependence of the editors from their editions, what they are inclined to do in behalf of them, even to the detriment of their personal writings, on one hand, and the dependence of the personal friendships and hostilities, on the other. The observations are based on some letters from the archive of Ivan Naydenov and other texts that draw the picture of his complicated relationships with Petko Slaveykov, Svetoslav Milarov, and Stefan Bobchev.
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES IN THE REPUBLIK OF LETTERS (THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IV. NAYDENOV, P. SLAVEYKOV, SV. MILAROV AND ST. BOBCHEV IN ONE CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE 1870s)
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- NAME: Nikolay Aretov
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INSTITUTIONInstitute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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COUNTRYBulgaria
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Dr Hab. NIKOLAI ARETOV is Professor at the Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and lecturer at Sofia University. Author of several books, published in Bulgarian, among then The Translated Prose from the First Half of 19th Century (1990), The Bulgarian Murder: Plots with Crimes in Bulgarian Literature (1994, 2 revised ed. 2007), Vasil Popovic. His Life and His Work (2000), Bulgarian National Revival and Europe (1995; 2 ed. 2001), National Mythology and National Literature (2006), Asen Christophorov: From London to Matsakurtsi via Belene (2011), Bulgarian Literature from the Age of National Revival. (2009), Sofroniy from Vratza. Life and Oeuvre. (2017), Ivan Naydenov. For Rights and Progress (2019), The varied Chudomir during its era (2024).
Editor of several collections of articles on Bulgarian and Balkan culture. Coordinator of several interdisciplinary projects on different aspects of collective identities and their representations in culture (balkansbg.eu).
Fields of interest: Bulgarian literature 18–20 centuries, Comparative literature, Cultural studies, Nationalism and National mythology, Crime literature.
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