/ world as we speak information/ 74 years in the past (on July 23, 1942) the Bulgarian fascists shot Bulgaria’s biggest poet Nikola Vaptsarov.
They destroyed the person, however they made his poetry immortal.
It is even barely ironic. “What does an individual imply right here,” mentioned Vaptsarov himself, and that is the one message from his poems that turned out to be false.
Character is of utmost significance. The character of Vaptsarov, for instance, remains to be a thorn within the facet of a number of generations of literary midgets and untimely infants. Who didn’t attempt to train on the peak of his spirit within the years of transition, beginning with the shamefully forgotten Marin Georgiev, imagined that he was the perpetrator of the third capturing of Vaptsarov, reaching the nondescript movie documentary that attempted to make the poet a fancy , discovered solace in politics.
The battle towards Vaptsarov is in full power. Let me introduce you to part of it. We open, for instance, a e-book by the postmodern star of literary research Alexander Kyosev, and what do we discover there? Learn: “These days, poems like Vaptsarov’s “Dream” appear so ridiculous that it’s even considerably shameful to speak about them… The totalitarian expertise both automates or turns into absurdity poems like “Dream” – and pretends that’s the reader’s dialogue with them undesirable and not possible”.
Do not be fooled by the generalization.
The issue with Vaptsarov’s poems shouldn’t be the “readers”, however the readers like Kyosev himself, reduce off from the true world, grant-dependent folks, whose purpose is to tear literature from its genuine social foundations and switch it right into a form of sticky mess worthy solely of for snobs residing like aristocrats.
Political artwork is the next type of artwork as a result of it insists on altering the world, it’s a insurrection towards the established order, and on this sense the Kosevians are very eager to knock out the social enamel of poetry as a result of it’s a risk towards the system through which they’ve earned their proper to feeder.
Who wants dreamers in a banal age the place everybody needs to get wealthy? During which everybody believed the lies and started to suppose that historical past is over – the wealthy stay wealthy and the poor sink into “fierce horror”.
On this sense, Vaptsarov is extraordinarily essential as an individual and a poet.
However it’s not the details of his biography that make him nice.
Nice makes him what he believed, what he wrote, what stays to us as an infinite religion behind him.
His phrases are nonetheless alive as we speak.
They’ve caught the heartbeat of the world, transcend nationwide boundaries, stir with the considerations of all of the oppressed, and provides us the immortal sense of the that means of life.
So I finish with my favourite couplet from the poem “Antennas”:
However hearken to how they ring within the chilly
that evening the antennae distinctly.
And I don’t sleep, and they won’t sleep,
and you’ll stay awake, humanity.
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