Stoyan Karolev’s Personal Library in “Bulgarian Literary Critics” Digital Library

Abstract

The article briefly presents collections with donation inscriptions from the personal library of Prof. Stoyan Karolev, stored in "Zachary Knyazheski" Regional Library - Stara Zagora. Presented collections include copies of donation inscriptions by Radoi Ralin, Blaga Dimitrova, Andrey Germanov, Damyan Damyanov, Veselin Andreev, Stanislav Stratiev, Ivan Davidkov, Mihail Toshkov, D. Chavdarov-Chelkash, Pencho Danchev, Atanas Natev, Encho Mutafov, Alexander Milanov, Kamen Zidarov, Ivan Paunovski, Ivan Sarandev, Vihren Chernokozhev. In addition to revealing connections between the literary critic and a great number of important names in our literature and culture from the 1950s to the beginning of the 2000s, donation inscriptions are valuable in their authentic handwriting and in their content, which testifies the authors' attitude to cultural phenomena and polemics, the excitement in their first steps, the development of their creative self-consciousness; they also recall performances of forgotten authors today.