Капричио за Гоя
Capriccio for Goya

Двуезично издание на български и английски език. Selected poems: 1955 - 95. Bilingual collection of poems by one of the most important contemporary Bulgarian poets.

Konstantin Mirchev Pavlov is regarded by most influential critics in Bulgaria as the leading modern poet in the country after the war. Born in 1933, he rose to prominence with the publication of "Satires" (1960) and "Poems" (1965), the copies of which were confiscated before they reached the public. Officially sentenced to silence for his courageous depiction of the terror in his country, he became a pariah. For more than twenty years, his poetry was read only in Samizdat by the few who could find his poems. At the end of the seventies, the Communist Party relented somewhat and allowed him to earn a living as a screenplay writer for the state film industry. Several of his screenplays were filmed and won international prizes. In 1983, on his fiftieth birthday, his third book of poetry, "Old Things", finally appeared. It provoked another ban, and Pavlov began publishing again only after the fall of Communism in 1989. Since then he has published nine volumes of poetry and several plays.

"K. Pavlov renewed Bulgarian poetry with the light touch of a genius. He introduced modern esthetics into our national cinema and theatre."
Rumen Leonidov

"Konstantin Pavlov, whom Anna Akhmatova called the best Bulgarian poet she had ever read, broke with the accepted poetic tradition in 1955 and found his own unique voice. His poems are satirical mini-dramas and lyrical pieces. He has a flair for elevating the commonplace and transforming the transient and trivial into the universal. His free verse is marked by a fine and varied sense of intonational and rhythm."
Polina D. Dimova

Надпяване (откъс) / Singing Contest (a fragment)
Елегичен оптимизъм / Elegiac Optimism
Прелюд - паяците / Prelude - the Spiders
Флотация / Flotation
Славеите пеят / The Nightingales Sing
На един предател / To a Traitor
Едипов комплекс / Oedipus Complex
Кучето Хектор / Hector the Dog
Пак за славея / About the Nightingale Again
Прекрасното в поезията или жертва на декоративни рибки / The Exquisite in Poetry or a Victim of Tropical Fish
Пасторално / Pastoral
Алхимици / Alchemists
Капричио за Гоя / Capriccio for Goya
Парадокс / Paradox
Второ капричио за Гоя / Second Capriccio for Goya
Интервю в утробата на Кита / Interview in the Belly of the Whale
Въздушна целувка / A Kiss As Light As Air
Жестоко плодородие / Cruel Fertility
Късно е да бъда развратен... / It Is Late to Be Corrupted
Още мъничко...още мъничко... / A Little More...A Little More...
Нафталин / Naphthalene (Mothballs)
Адаптация / Adaptation
Безкрайна поема / Endless Poem (a fragment)
Защо! / Why!
Безкрайна поема (втори откъс) / Endless Poem (a second fragment)
Хладна изповед / Lukewarm Confession
Точно тогава / Just Then
Втора самота / Second Solitude
В романтичен план / From a Romantic Angle
Великото сбогуване / The Great Good-bye
Собогом, спасителю / Farewell, Savior
Плач на едно бившо куче / Cry of a Former Dog
Северно сияние / Polar Light
Беше XX век / It Was the 20th Century
Изход винаги съществува / These Is Always a Way Out
Вик за помощ / Cry for Help
Репетиция за гала танц / Rehearsal for a Gala Dance
Десният ми крак / My Right Foot
Прозрение на врабче / The Insight of a Sparrow
Взаимно изпитание / Mutual Ordeal
Пред изгрев / Before Dawn
Небрежният ангел / The Careless Angel
Скъпи приятелю... / Dear Friend...
Плачат нещата / The Things Cry
Скулптор без модел / Sculptor without a Model
Новото време на старовремците / The Old-Timers' New Times
Нова душа / New Soul
Някой каза браво / Someone Said, "Bravo"
Театрален призив / Theatrical Appeal
Плачат нещата (втори вариант) / The Things Cry (a second version)
Душите са обладани от ангели / Souls Are Possessed by Angels
Агонио сладка / Sweet Agony
Липсва най-важното звено / The Most Important Link Is Missing
Друг диктува / Somebody Else Dictates
Нищо и нещо / Nothing ans Something
Тематично разпяване / Thematic Choir Practice
Няма заглавие / Untitled
Ав-то-ра, Ав-то-ра / Author!...Author!...
Стъпка по стъпка / Step by Step
Чужди са ми / They are Strangers
Има и такъв ход / Such a Move Exists
Обувка, вярна като куче / Shoe, Loyal Like a Dog
Следа / Trail
Убийство на спящ човек / Murder of a Sleeping Man
Konstantin Pavlov in His Own Words