The article deals with the different levels of reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s ‘Christian epic’ Quo Vadis in Bulgaria. It focuses on an issue which is of exceptional interest in the Bulgarian context: Quo Vadis is amongst the most widely read and translated novels of the world classics and yet has not been integrated in the ‘repertoire’ of Bulgarian literary science and thought. According to some research statistics its scale of reception is phenomenological, but it has not impacted our literary tradition of novel writing. This is a paradox, which can only be explained as a result of the specificity of the intellectual and religious experience of the Bulgarian people.
The most creative person in the history of Bulgarian literature is Blaga Dimitrova. This article presents her memories of the outstanding Polish poet Wisława Szymborska. Situations she recalls took place in the 50s, 60s and 70s of the 20th century. This was a time when the Polish Nobel Prize Winner in Literature began to create her literary works. The sincere friendship between Dimitrova and Szymborska is also depicted here. It can be proved by the statement of Dimitrova's husband, Jordan Vasilev.
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