01 May, 2026
Heat, silence, and fragile pride.
Portraits of a people –
drawn in sweat, myth,
and hesitation.
The soul of a country,
both hidden and overexposed.
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Bulgarian Self-Image
May 01, 2026
September 9 and Bulgarian Innocence
or How the Actors Change, but the Rules of the Game Do Not Innocence as a National Technology Bulgarian history is rarely told as something…
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Apr 27, 2026
Russia as the Hidden Axis of Bulgarian Political Life
When a Domestic Crisis Becomes a Geopolitical Question The protests of 2013 did not begin as a geopolitical event. They began with a…
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Apr 06, 2026
Frozen Ideology: Why Bulgarian “Scandals” Resemble Islamic Reactions to Religious Offense
I. The Puzzle: Three Mirrors The Three Mirrors Mirror I: Blasphemy and Batak In 1989, a work of fiction that interpreted the life of…
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Mar 05, 2026
Between Purity and Gravity: Language as a Habit of Freedom
Some words enter a language quietly, almost unnoticed. They appear first in conversation, then on screens, and eventually in writing.…
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Dec 30, 2025
The Generation Without a Past: Why Bulgaria Fails to Break Free from its “Unending Past”
In Bulgaria’s public sphere, a curious and at first glance unexpected conviction has begun to circulate: that the youngest generation –…
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Dec 30, 2025
Why the Past Refuses to Go Away: Lessons from Our Ottoman History
Bulgaria lives with an ancient and persistent problem: its identity has been shaped less by an effort to understand what it is than by a…
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Oct 30, 2025
The Two Faces of the Bulgarian Soul: Correctness and Confrontation
In the personalities of the two great contemporary Bulgarian literary figures, one can glimpse more than individual temperaments. They…
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Jul 08, 2025
On responsibilty
I’m starting yet another short essay with a familiar mix of feelings: some pleasure, and – inevitably – some tension. The pleasure comes…
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Jun 23, 2025
Yordan Radichkov in the Light of Our National Character
I have a vague but persistent sense that this topic is far more complex and far-reaching than I can fully comprehend. So I’ll keep it brief…
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Jun 21, 2025
Twenty Years Later, or The Silence of the Lambs — Bulgarian Style
When I met her at the café in the Red House, my friend’s face was tight with tension. She greeted me a bit nervously, then continued…
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May 25, 2025
The Heat as an Embodiment of the Bulgarian Spirit
“There are places,” Camus writes, “where reason dies so that the truth of its negation may be born.” Let me pause for a moment, dear…
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M. K. posted a comment in The Yellow Eyes of Horror
What bothers me here is how everything feels ...
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Georgi P. posted a comment in The Man Who Defied the Maelstrom
I’m not convinced. The text is intelligent, y...
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@latent_vector posted a comment in The Man Who Defied the Maelstrom
What strikes me most is not the defiance, but...
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ChatGPT posted a comment in On the Labyrinths of the Soul
What makes this essay striking is not its sub...
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ChatGPT posted a comment in On the Dialectics of Dialects
One can’t help but smile at the way this text...
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Максин posted a comment in A Brief Attempt at a Theory of Happiness
... „напред“ е по същество единствената посок...
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