My Stories (1973 – 2023). Volume 1

In this impressive literary work in terms of volume and time span, which the author has called “My Stories”, and some would define it as a kind of “writer’s diary”, Georgi Borisov presents his unpublished poems, thoughts and observations, philosophical essays and memoir prose, literary portraits and testimonies, scenes and life stories that have marked his path for half a century.

Among the most curious of the sections in this volume is the first – both in form and in subject matter – which refers to Dalchev’s “Fragments” and represents a special contribution with the poet’s “attempts” to unravel the essence of poetry and the creative process, the many-faced masks of existence and the holograms of speech, the endless possibilities and deceptive poverty of Bulgarian rhyme.

The exuberance of thoughts and impressions and the poems thrown together under the influence of momentary excitement, intended solely for the personal notebook and undeservedly neglected by the poet as unfinished or not "good enough", the images and plots scattered in motion, the spontaneous and metaphorical perception of the world and nature in this book are a gold mine for every art connoisseur and literary researcher - and why not for the inevitable "literary pickpockets" in such cases, as Kiril Hristov calls them in his diaries.