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Zlatko Enev – Writer, Essayist, and Creator of Firecurl
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Monthly Archive

2025

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find totaly 108 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
About That Tom, Who’s Really Called Huck
Cultural Mirrors
Zlatko Enev
564
4 min read

About That Tom, Who’s Really Called Huck

  I don’t know whether someone told me this or I read it somewhere, but tonight one of those wise-sounding phrases has been spinning around in my head – the kind of thing you’d proudly serve u read more..
Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Do but Were Afraid to Try
Desire and Delusion
Zlatko Enev
594
10 min read

Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Do but Were Afraid to Try

  “Hello…” Even in this most neutral of phrases, her voice somehow managed to sound drawn out and inviting – or openly seductive, depending on the interpreter’s imagination. For a moment, he read more..
Clash of Civilizations – Reality or Media Myth?
Politics and Society
Zlatko Enev
576
9 min read

Clash of Civilizations – Reality or Media Myth?

    Author’s Note (2025) This essay was written in April 2007, at a time when the discourse around global conflict, terrorism, and identity was shaped by the immediate aftermath of 9/11 a read more..
Certified Genius
Irony and Social Paradox
Zlatko Enev
561
<1min
On the Sagrada Familia
Europe and the World
Zlatko Enev
611
4 min read

On the Sagrada Familia

  I’d like to touch here on a subject I rarely take up – probably because I don’t feel entirely confident in it. I mean architecture and its magic... Let me begin by saying that I’ve never be read more..
Looks Can Lock
Perception and Pain
Zlatko Enev
272
<1min
Fear
Masculinity Unravelled
Zlatko Enev
545
8 min read

Fear

    He was a brave bastard. He knew it – no longer needed to prove it. He’d learned the trick over the years – at first unconsciously, just by instinct, then more and more through experien read more..
A User’s Guide to Failure
Spiritual Struggle
Zlatko Enev
523
7 min read

A User’s Guide to Failure

  I suppose many of you have heard that now-iconic Beckett quote: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. The fact that I’m beginning to reflect on this parti read more..
Stuck in the Moment
Desire and Delusion
Zlatko Enev
574
9 min read

Stuck in the Moment

    “No,” said the Girl, and there was a familiar note in her voice. Painfully familiar. “No parking!” “Keep off the grass!” “Occupied!” “Oh, come on,” thought the Boy – who by now wasn read more..
Not in Our Image
Thinking Beyond Us
Zlatko Enev
621
9 min read

Not in Our Image

    On the Limits of Anthropocentric Intelligence “I know that I know nothing.”  – Socrates From the very depths of the evolution of human intelligence as we know it today, we’ve read more..
The Risks of Communication
Perception and Pain
Zlatko Enev
310
<1min
Vengeful Memory
Perception and Pain
Zlatko Enev
304
<1min
Vanity’s Real Crime
Vanity and Identity
Zlatko Enev
313
<1min
Good ol’ Thackeray
Vanity and Identity
Zlatko Enev
288
<1min
The Magic Called “Simplicity”
Play and Simplicity
Zlatko Enev
711
6 min read

The Magic Called “Simplicity”

  A strange thing happened — I woke up yesterday and found the world to be… good. I should say straight away: I hadn’t smoked anything. I simply opened my eyes — outside, a grey and grubby mor read more..
The Elite Individual
Spiritual Struggle
Zlatko Enev
678
9 min read

The Elite Individual

    I begin this text with the relatively clear awareness that in writing it, I am committing a sort of ultimate version of that original philosophical sin – contradictio in adjecto, a c read more..
How to STOP Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Thinking Beyond Us
Zlatko Enev
501
8 min read

How to STOP Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    A Survival Manual in a World of Intellectual Overproduction The times we’re passing through are just as strange as all those that came before. I am far from thinking our current dif read more..
Economy of scale
Vanity and Identity
Zlatko Enev
366
<1min
Confessions of a Repentant Gamer
Inner Crossroads
Zlatko Enev
469
15 min read

Confessions of a Repentant Gamer

    I wrote this piece back in 2009, in the aftermath of what I can only describe as a silent collapse — the kind that happens not with drama or disaster, but with quiet, daily erosion. read more..
What Firecurl Really Is
Thought and Subversion
Zlatko Enev
361
4 min read

What Firecurl Really Is

  The official history says Firecurl was a danger. But who controls the history? And what happens to those who remember differently?See the whole story at firecurl.com People sometimes a read more..
The Work of Literature in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Thinking Beyond Us
Zlatko Enev
406
7 min read

The Work of Literature in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  An Ironic Homage to Walter Benjamin, and a Cheerful Eulogy for the Human Pen The New Aura of the Algorithm     For most of human history, writing has been the most intimate read more..
The Wonderful New Literary World: Language Creation in the Age of Real-Time Translation
Thinking Beyond Us
Zlatko Enev
391
7 min read

The Wonderful New Literary World: Language Creation in the Age of Real-Time Translation

    The Shackles of the Tongue: A Quiet Tyranny Language is often described as a gift — the mother tongue, a homeland of thought. But for most writers on this planet, language has functio read more..
The Children of Hans Asperger
The Children of Hans Asperger
Zlatko Enev
401
2 min read

The Children of Hans Asperger

This essay offers a raw and compelling chronicle of one family’s life alongside autism — not as an abstract diagnosis, but as a daily, intimate reality. At its centre is Lea, the daughter of the narra... read more..
The Children of Hans Asperger – Excerpt
The Children of Hans Asperger
Zlatko Enev
402
15 min read

The Children of Hans Asperger – Excerpt

The Children of Hans Asperger Life with Autism: A personal Story Today I begin a story which I probably regard – quite justifiably – as the hardest and most painful in my life so far: the story of t... read more..
A week in Paradise
A Week in Paradise
Zlatko Enev
399
2 min read

A week in Paradise

A Week in Paradise is a sharply observed and darkly humorous account of three Bulgarians arriving in newly reunified Berlin — a city still trembling with history and possibility. The protagonists, Vla... read more..
A Week in Paradise – Excerpt
A Week in Paradise
Zlatko Enev
364
15 min read

A Week in Paradise – Excerpt

A Week in Paradise Shame rides on the edge of the familiar The sky above Berlin glows as if polished by careful German hands... Sounds flat, Vladko thinks. Pure kitsch. A sky is a sky—nowhere does ... read more..
An Emigrant’s Story
Exile and Return
Zlatko Enev
532
23 min read

An Emigrant’s Story

    Hello friends, I’m starting something here that feels a bit questionable – but then again, why not? During the night I was haunted by a flurry of vague dreams where old and new memo read more..
Requiem for Nobody
Requiem for Nobody
Zlatko Enev
354
<1min

Requiem for Nobody

  It begins in a drowsy provincial town — Prespan, somewhere deep in 1980s Bulgaria — at a moment when history quietly forgets its manners. The so-called “Revival Process” is in full swing, and read more..
Requiem for Nobody – Excerpt
Requiem for Nobody
Zlatko Enev
473
18 min read

Requiem for Nobody – Excerpt

Köpenik, Berlin, the beginning of the new century „This isn’t you,” she said in a tremulous voice. „I don’t recognize you like this.” Regaining control, she repeated, „This isn’t you.” He flared up... read more..
The Tears
Family Dynamics
Zlatko Enev
589
10 min read

The Tears

  „Shall I leave you alone?“ his mother asked from behind, and coughed – sharp, cutting. He didn’t answer, pulled one of the stools toward him and sank heavily onto it. The coffin swayed threat read more..
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