Complex, tense, torn between the poetic and the brutally naturalistic, Comparsita is an expressive account of the vicissitudes of history in their sinister, parody-grotesque forms, of guilt and impossible love, of the various paths to salvation.
Dimitar Shumnaliev graduated with a diploma the Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA, then specialized French language and culture at the University of Pau, Southern France. Winner of the Grand Prize for literature of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski ". He acknowledges that novels are his enduring love, and the short stories - his fast infidelity.