Job and Jobbery
The book covers short journalistic texts written on various occasions in the period 2000-2024. The style is sometimes serious and sad, other times - cheerful, playfully intellectual. Some of the texts are longer and reflective, others are shorter and catchy, and their genre spectrum varies from articles and essays to short stories and short ironic texts on social networks. The horizons are mainly Bulgarian, but global problems are also discussed; the focus is on the present, but there are also texts heavy with the past.
The huge variety of topics inevitably passes through the author's personal perspective. Therefore, "Job and Jobbery" has no pretensions to scientificity - composed of colorful testimonies, it is a kind of mosaic picture of the Bulgarian transition to democracy - both of the last 25 years that we have experienced together, and of the winding individual fate of its author.
Alexander Kiossev
Alexander Kyosev is a professor of history of modern culture; his research interests include the cultural history of totalitarianism and transition to democracy in Bulgaria, theory and history of reading, and the visual culture of the city. He published four books in Bulgarian; he was the head and editor of collective studies; his scientific articles were translated into almost all European languages.
As a public figure, he wrote columns in "Sega" newspaper, published articles and interviews in "Kultura" magazine and other editions, reacted to current events with posts on Facebook.
