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Levski

Brand: Yana Yazova
Collection: Yana Yazova Collection
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Product Code:: 20-01
ISBN: 954-8945-29-0
SKU: 12.0094

Year: 18-08-2003
Pages: 752
Size: 140/215 мм
Weight: 0.985 kg
Collection: Колекция "Яна Язова"
Cover Type: Hardcover
Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies, Bulgarian Authors, Historical Fiction, Yana Yazova

Yana Yazova

Yana Yazova was the pen name of Lyuba Todorova Gancheva (1912 - 1974), a Bulgarian intellectual and writer. Her name is also transcribed as Liuba Gantcheva. She was born in Lom and received a Master's degree in Slavic philology from Sofia University in 1935. Gancheva also studied French philology at the Sorbonne. She published a historical drama The Last of the Pagans and a novel The Captain in 19…

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Yana Yazova (1912-1974) calls her novel Levski" my Bible. This novel is the main reason that she got killed; and then the original text was wiped out.

It was not until 1987 that the novel appeared again, thanks to a extant draft of the original, and became the greatest sensation of the 20th century. Yana Yazova presents Levski with such a thoroughness and completeness as only a few of the people who have met him alive, have experienced.