Letters, notes and articles traciing the bridges to world literature

At the onset of those meetings was the creation of the Cyrillic alphabet by the saint brothers Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century. Their disciples spread the new script through out the Slavic nations. Here is more on the exhibition from its organizer Ms. Katya Zografova, who is director of the National Literary Museum in Sofia.
“The topic about the Bogomils is one of the most interesting in our exhibition. Few people know that the Catholic Inquisition originated as a means to fight the followers of the Bogomils, the French Cathars and Albigenses, when in the 10th c. it spread like a heresy and reached Western Europe. Comparativists have established a similarity between the secret books of the Bogomils and Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno”, which can be interpreted as a Bulgarian contribution to European culture.”

Old time translations in Bulgarian of world classics

The display aims to demonstrate that the Bulgarian writers at the turn of the 20th century were not only admirers of the great European men of letters but part of the modern tradition. The exhibits feature some of the first translations of European fiction and textbooks into Bulgarian, as well as letters, photographs, and diaries serving as spiritual bridges toward European culture. A good case in point is the great Bulgarian poet Geo Milev, who in 1914 used to sign his personal notes from Leipzig, Bulgarischer Weltbürger, Bulgarian Citizen of the World.