Rumyana Damyanova

The article traces how Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nedka Kapralova became one of the prominent researchers of culture and literature of the Bulgarian Revival. Having left us untimely, she did not realize her ideas, did not fulfill her research dreams. Her research is primarily in the field of Revival culture, with her scientific interests mostly focused on the phenomenon of philanthropy. She is interested in the connection between folklore and literature, researches female initiation as a phenomenon, etc. The topic of philanthropy is her doctoral thesis. She treats the facts and the documents with respect, which is evident in her book dedicated to the letters of Elisaveta Karaminkova. Over the years, she has been involved in various projects, the result of which is her latest book, dedica- ted to Ekaterina Vasileva. She bequeathed to the Bulgarian cultural community some precise translations of modern French scholars, cultural theorists and philosophers such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Fernand Braudel and Pierre Bourdieu.