RADOY RALIN AND “THE CASE” OF VESNA PARUN
Études balkaniques (Sofia) 2024, N 3, DOI: https://doi.org/10.62761/645.EB.LX3.06
Katia ZOGRAFOVA
National Literary Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria
Abstract: The article features the Bulgarian trace in the works of the Croatian poet and her creative contacts with Bulgarian artists and literary figures in the 1960s. This period was a turning point in her work. Among her most significant friendships with men of letters was that with the great Bulgarian poet and satirist of the regime Radoy Ralin (1923-2004). Vesna Parun’s letters constitute an authentic testimony to her creative and intellectual views, as well as to a rich spirituality that enriched both Croatian and Bulgarian literature with its lyrical and essayistic pictures of the period.
Keywords: lyric poetry, creative contacts, opposition ideas, satire