https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346240
https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.493-499
Ilia Volen – between Love and Literature
Marchela Mironova
The text is a review of the book “Between love and literature. Letters to N.”, which contains letters from Ilia Volen to his lover and wife Tsonka Hristova Volen. It briefly presents the book’s content and structure, followed by an interpretation of the book through the perspective of the epistolary genre and its function in creating a wider view of historical reality.
Keywords: Ilia Volen; Tsonka Hristova Volen; love letters; literature
About the author: Marchela Mironova is а PhD candidate at the Department of Bulgarian Literature at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, where she had her bachelor’s degree in Bulgarian philology and her master’s degree in Literary studies. Her scientific research is mainly in the field of Bulgarian fantasy literature. She teaches Bulgarian language and literature to students from 5th to 12th grade.
