Max Blecher’s novels were published in Bulgarian

Report for the emission “Izotopia” of the Bulgarian National Radio about Blecher’s book, which was translated in Bulgarian by Lora Nenkovska

Vladimir Mitev

Bulgaria is one of the European countries, where Romanian writers are poet have been translated en masse. The emission “Izotopia” of the Bulgarian National Radio presented the story about another interesting Romainan author, translated into Bulgarian. This is Max Blecher – a surrealist writer, who is compared to Proust or Kafka. The translator Lora Nenkovska says that Blecher was popular among the Romanian writers and poets from the beginning of the XXI century. Catalina Puiu – professor of Bulgarian language and literature in the Bucharest University, adds more about Blecher’s contribution to Romanian literature. The blogger Tvetelina Mareva shared her impressions as one of the first Bulgarian readers of Blecher. The publisher Manol Peykov added another detail to the story – the illustrations are made by Teodor Ushev, who is a big admirer of Blecher.

This is the report:

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Vladimir Mitev

Vladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian Romanian-speaking journalist. He has interacted with many Bulgarian and Romanian media outlets, including Bulgarian National Radio, Mediapool, all major Bulgarian television stations, Darik Radio, and more (Bulgaria); Radio Romania, The Liberal Community 1848, all the major Romanian television stations; DoR; Libertatea; PressHub; and others (Romania); The Analysis, Acorn Radio (USA); Open Democracy (UK); voxEurop (France); the Observatory for the Balkans and the Caucasus; The Other News (Italy); The Institute for Central Europe (Poland); Argument (Czechia); Merce (Hungary); Bilten (Croatia); and Agora (the Republic of Moldova).
He promotes the idea of non-hegemonic, mutually empowering interactions in Central and Southeastern Europe that could contribute to the formation of a dynamic regional identity and connect citizens to the global community.

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