/ world today news/ If I sat down to tell our people what I actually learned, what it really was, and not only in the action, but in the atmosphere that existed, in how our people experienced this thing, especially the first 300 years of the Ottoman empire – sorry, “Time Apart” is a love song.
This was stated to bTV by the writer Academician Anton Donchev, who is the author of the novel “Separate Time”, describing the life of Bulgarians under Turkish slavery.
“If we begin to propagate the opinion of the Anglo-Saxons about the Ottoman Empire, the Turks will not be angry with us, but will simply turn their backs. Because the verdict given by foreign historical science about the Ottoman Empire is much more hard-hearted than that which has given our science”, said Academician Donchev.
“The Romanians and the Hungarians, these two peoples who were also under Turkish rule, somehow preserved one memory. We couldn’t, even we have Batak, but Batak is not immortalized in such a way. We have no fine art that recreates this terrible reality,” said the writer Anton Donchev.
Somehow we Turks feel them as our own people. We have a civilization influenced by the Turks, if you want from the dishes, we lived with those people. Whether we like it or not, we are Turkey’s gateway to Europe. Basic common sense is required to see where Bulgaria’s place is in this whole story.(…) At first, now humanity does not pay so much attention to genes. It’s all written down, we can’t escape our blood.
Regarding the novel “Time Separated” and the untold stories in it, Acad. Donchev said: “I didn’t hear the greatest story, I experienced it in the Rhodopes. In the middle of the night, a man who was leading me around the village of Momchilovtsi stopped at night, it could have been a fence of a cemetery, but nothing was visible, and he began to call: Elitze, Elitze, Elitze and a door opened and a young woman came out of the darkness a woman in a white, long dress, with flowing hair down to her knees, with a single candle. That is why the novel “Time Separated” was born.
After 30 years, he discovered that the woman’s name was not Elitsa, but Ielitsa.
A scene of cruelty was spared in the novel. “My father asked me not to write a scene and I didn’t write it. The scene is terrible,” explained Donchev.
“When I hear Bulgaria – I see light. I deal with history, 15 peoples 15 centuries ago took to the historical stage – they had empires from the Danube to China, at the moment 5-6 people like me or people who deal with them know their names. The nations are gone. One nation is anchored in the dirtiest place in Europe, and at the moment we speak the same language and call ourselves Bulgarians,” said Academician Donchev.
As a good connoisseur of the human soul, he explained: “Everything we perceive in the world, we perceive it through the glasses of our culture.”
The writer emphasized the responsibility of the intelligentsia. “And the people who make the glasses, who cast the glass, who make the diopters, the people of spirituality are to blame for the crookedness we see. The politicians who slap mud on the glasses, they are also to blame, because people do not see the world correctly. They can they see it correctly only through culture. Culture is cultivated, people are cultivated, brought up, educated. Each person is a kind of mirror of what is happening around him. We are not aware of what is happening at the moment,” said Academician Donchev categorically.
Presenting the history of the Black Sea, he compared Europe to it. In place of the Black Sea there used to be a nice fresh water lake, around which there was a brilliant civilization, but after the salty ocean broke through our straits, this half-salty, half-sea, half-lake, dead-bottomed Black Sea was created. “Europe is such a freshwater lake,” said academician Donchev.
“And in the freshwater lake Europe, which was created with northern waters, in which we also participate, other waters enter, other people enter, and this is no longer the freshwater lake Europe, it is a new place for peoples to live in, in which they must to get used to living not with our water, but with other waters. A complicated life is beginning for Europe. It is extremely difficult to see any end in advance”, outlined the problems with migrant waves in Europe allegorically, Academician Donchev.
Although a Freemason, Academician Donchev describes the battle between good and evil as follows: “Armageddon is the last battle, between the forces of good and evil, darkness and light, into which they will enter, as it is written in the Bible, “all the kings to the end of the earth”. i.e. all mankind will clash. Armageddon is not a day, it’s not two, it’s a constant, incredible battle.”
Regarding the celebration of the Nativity of Christ some time ago, the writer says: “People in our lands have always worked hard, winter is a time when hard work subsides, nature says “Wait”. At this time, a person is given the opportunity to reflect, to enjoy peacefully.
I have a direct impression of my grandmother, who was born during slavery, – this is a person who begins to live actively from the moment the sun appears until it sets. In the summer, when the day is long, you work 16-17 hours a day and you fall as if killed, you rise again the next morning. Winter gives you the opportunity to sigh and say “Brey, another year has passed, let’s enjoy life,” says Acad. Donchev.
About the way of life before and now, when modern technologies enter our lives every minute, the writer explains that before a person seemed to be more protected. “When I was a child, the house was a house, the house was closed, the family stayed there, no one could come in, no one could tell, suggest anything to you. You have the opportunity to be alone with your loved ones and so the experience was completely different from now. The way it was celebrated was completely different,” said Donchev.
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