Z PROBLEMÓW MODERNIZMU BUŁGARSKIEGO
SOME PROBLEMS OF BULGARIAN MODERNISM

Summary/Abstract: Literary life of Bulgaria until 1878 was shaped in a certain isolation from the literary life of Europe. After independence had been won the enlivening of artistic contacts was made possible by a group of artists, assembled around the journal „Misyl” which was published in the years 1892-1907 (Pencho Slavejkov, Doctor Kristo Kristev). Their activity was the proper introduction of modernism although without their being aware of the fact. Terminus a quo of the first stage of Bulgarian modernism will therefore be the date of appearing of Misyl. This period lasted until the turning-point of the two centuries — until 1899-1900. The second stage, the years 1901-1914, are the period of poetic debuts Trifon Kunev, Teodor Trajanov, modernistic literary manifestoes (Ivan Andrejchin, Dimo Kiorchev, Anton Strashimirov) and also a bitter critical controversy with the opponents of modernism. The period of the First World War, which was the end of modernistic tendencies in many literatures, is in the Bulgarian specific character of literature a turning point opening the last stage of development, closed not till the September uprising in 1923. The delay in the development caused that as late as in the years 1914-1923 the typically modernistic journals were founded (Zveno, Vezni, Hiperion) and expressionism developed (Geo Milev).

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