Narrative
Паладини
Not translated into English
Georgi Stamatov · 1924
Synopsis
Paladini: the story bears the name of its hero, a man of art, and follows the rise of his talent, then its decline. A short city tale, it belongs to the author's series of artist figures, and stands apart from his ironic and often sarcastic pictures of manners by a certain romanticism and by the high idea he holds of art.
Context
The story appeared as a separate volume in 1924, then in a second edition in 1926, between Skitsi, in 1915, and the two volumes of stories of 1929 and 1930; according to Ivaylo Staykov, the author was working on it during his years as a judge in Kyustendil, and he began a second part. Aleksandar Filipov, in 1930, groups Paladini with Dalbiani among the artists of his work, priests and victims of their gift, from which a noble conception of art emerges; he sees in it the romantic side of a writer most of whose stories bear the name of their hero.
Who it is for
A short narrative, in an ironic style made of short paragraphs and set phrases; no French or English translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
By an author absent from school curricula and little read today, whom the national radio has presented as the forgotten writer.