/ world today news/ Nikolay Petev left the pre-election tours for a day to present his new book “33 Poems for Rereading” (Bulgarian Writer Publishing House, 2013) at the National Palace of Culture on May 7. It contains works of Bulgarian classics and the author’s comments on them.
In his exposition, Petev gave answers to the reasons that prompted him to create this unique author’s anthology:
“Recently, I had to do two premieres at short notice. At the time, there was a slogan the five-year plan for three years, so I decided to indulge myself in the book action. This is a special book and is meant for parents to muster the strength to read it to their children.
I have also explained it in the opening words of the book:
“Friendship and betrayal, welcome and curse – four words with the same first letters, and what a semantic opposite! I love words because the world is primarily made of them. And poetry… It is their peak.
Today’s time is mercantile and unromantic, its accents are irresponsible, easy and vulgar use of words, glorification of money and distance from art, refusal of education of the soul, lack of interest in building aesthetics and ethics in the new coming generations. That is why I am publishing this book. I hope it helps parents to fill their child’s soul with the human, with the beautiful, which is actually poetry.
And one clarification. These 33 poems are not the best poems of the departed Bulgarian poets. They are just my choice. Thank God yours is forthcoming and free because everyone has the right to reread. This is what I rely on the most in order to return to the human, called by God and people – Poetry.”
A recital of some of the poems by Veli Chaushev followed. After each of them, Nikolay Petev read his commentary. The audience remembered emblematic poems by Ivan Vazov, Petko R. Slaveykov, Dimcho Debelyanov, Nikola Vaptsarov, Bogomil Rainov, David Ovadiya, Georgi Jagarov, Andrey Germanov and Hristo Botev.
Nikolay Malinov, chairman of the National Movement “Rusophiles”, announced that an Initiative Committee of non-governmental organizations has decided to award Nikolay Petev with the most prestigious award for the development of Bulgarian-Russian relations. Prof. Andrey Pantev, chairman of the Initiative Committee, presented the Samara Cross order on behalf of the Forum “Bulgaria – Russia” and noted in his lengthy speech:
“It is an honor for me to present a special order that is an example of the combination of beauty and historical significance. In this order, a great event is preserved, which is a continuation of those primordial roots between Bulgarians and Russians, which cannot be interrupted by any cultural and political slavish adaptations to coalitions and alliance commitments, etc. Nikolay Petev is the man who sang this war from a historical distance. He is one of those who loudly say that he loves Russia and Russians. The order is a copy of the Samara cross with the colors of the Samara flag.”
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