https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346229
https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.425-458
Newspaper “Literaturen Glas”: “Organ of Free Thought”. A Look at Its First Anniversary
Yoan Vasilev
The weekly edition of “Literaturen glas” edited by Dimitar B. Mitov is a peridocial that is amongst the longer lasting issues throughout the period between the two Wars in the country – 1928 to 1944. The newspaper is famous during its time as a politically neutral but socially active tribune which has analyzed various social, aеsthetic and ethical questions. The issue is physiognomic for the cultural settings of the period between the Wars because it becomes a collective center for creators of all generations with different artistic and political views. On the other hand, behind the long-standing success of the newspaper exist different strategies for inviting readers and collaborators with the purpose of making connections between different professional and aesthetic realms and satisfying the need of independent and modern public platform for communication and establishment of new cultural criteria. These aspects of the newspaper’s functions, which can be seen already within its first anniversary, will be the focus of this study.
Keywords: Bulgarian literature between the two Wars; newspaper “Literaturen glas”; Dimitar B. Mitov; first anniversary; writing policies
About the author: Yoan Vasilev graduated with a degree in Bulgarian Philology tom Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in 2024. His interests are related Bulgarian literature after the Liberation, as well as Balkan and Western European literature. His literary works, critical reviews, and academic articles have been published in “Literaturen vestnik”. “Telegraf”, and in the collections “Periferiata: modusi na funktsionirane i nachini na interpretirane”, “Slovo i obshtestyo”, “Arhiv za srednovekovna filosofiia i kultura”, and “Ezikovata belezhka – ot Balan do dnes”, as well as in the jourals “Verba iuvenium”, “Suvremenna lingvistika”, “Hristiyanstvo i kultura”, “Mezhdunaroden filologicheski forum”, “Fakel”, and others. In 2023, he won the prose award at the 17th edition of the National Literary Competition for Students, organized by the St. Kliment Ohridski Foundation and in 2024, he was awarded first prize for literary criticism at the National Student Competition “Boyan Penev”. He is currently working as a teacher at 30th Secondary School “Bratya Miladinovi”.
