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It all begins with an interview with Vesela, the widow of the caricaturist Rayko Aleksiev, and from there the murky river of the past rises to the surface, sweeping away reputations, hypocrisy and accumulated myth. The result of a nine-year journalistic investigation, this documentary novel traces the fate of Bulgaria's intellectuals from 1935 to 1965 through the artist's tragic end: three decades of political upheaval, violence and spiritual ruin whose mark on how Bulgarian intellectuals behave is still felt. Documents, testimonies and meetings with participants bring back the cells and the fears of the regime's victims, and the lives of hundreds of people ground down by the times.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

421 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria, 1935–1965

First published

2007 by Janet 45

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789544914097 (original)