Георги Цанев за българската литература за деца. Популярност и свръхпродукция
Georgi Canev Bulgarian Childrens’ Literature. Popularity and Mass Production

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the present study is Georgi Canev’s article “Literature for Children”, published “Art and Criticism” magazine in 1939, which interprets children’s literature in its role and function as popular literature, with all the negatives of popularity that threatens to turn creativity into production. The article poses the important literary-sociological (literary-economic) problem of the increased market incentive in Bulgarian children’s book publishing at the end of the 1930s, resulting in “advertising” reviews and overproduction of works with degraded conceptual quality. The emphasized economic stimulus, which directed almost all active creators and publishers to the Eldorado of the children’s book in the interwar period, raised an alarm about the financial existence of the Bulgarian writer. The flourishing of children’s book publishing, supported by critical passivity, gives Canev an occasion to pose problems of the critical ethos, marked in a small introductory block with positions of Boyan Penev, Georgi Konstantinov, Konstantin Galabov, Minko Nikolov, Malcho Nikolov, Toncho Zhechev, Stoyan Karolev, Efrem Karanfilov, Boyan Nichev as well as to bring out a number of necessary artistic and pedagogical qualities of the text for children, psycho-profiling the young reader.

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