Мир на кумирите ни

The second volume of a writer's memoir 'footnotes', a first-person flow of episodes and reckonings that moves from one memory to the next by free association, about Bulgaria the day before yesterday and yesterday. It passes through editorial offices, cafés and the writers' and film-makers' circles, where the Party gave and took away by playing on fear and idols, through the sudden fall of a 'real socialism' few expected and a murky transition that crushed hopes of a quick recovery. Thirty years on, the author looks at a country that has built bleak settlements instead of a modern state, abandoned its fertile fields and watched its young people blown abroad, where the state is a huge office for its officials and society sits at the bar ordering more of the same.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

336 pages in the original

Set in

Bulgaria

First published

2020 by Hermes

Author's age

85 when first published

ISBN

9789542619994 (original)