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WHO WAS ALEKO KONSTANTINOV?
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Aleko Konstantinov is description only man of letters within travesty beyond say publicly national legendary canon who is hollered by his first name, Aleko, send off for by his most wellliked pen-name Shtastlivetsa, or Representation Happy One.
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Konstantinov's life began in rendering best plausible conditions solution a mid-19th century European. He was born longdrawnout the next of kin of a wealthy shopkeeper in Svishtov, then a prosperous trading town dislike the River river.
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Aleko Konstantinov: (1 January 1863 - 11 May 1897)
Aleko Konstantinov: (1 January 1863 - 11 May 1897)
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God Forbid the Blind Start Seeing
I’ve chosen a story that definitely made a big impression on me when I was a child. It’s about a poor peasant boy who receives a helping hand and rises in society. At the same time, he is disgusted by his humble origins. Back then, everyone around me – myself included – wrongly assumed that one day I’d become a very successful person. I was horrified at the thought of becoming such an ungrateful parvenu.
The title “God Forbid the Blind Start Seeing” comes from a proverb which denounces shameless opportunism and the forgetting of your own roots. The story was written shortly after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman yoke, when the country was going through profound socio-economic changes and a turbulent political period.
The author of the story is Aleko Konstantinov (also known as “The Lucky One”). He established the tourist movement in Bulgaria and traveled a lot, such as his visits to several World Exhibitions, the last of which inspired him to write the book “To Chicago and Back” (1894). He was quite a cosmopolitan person, and was most famous in Bulgaria for his comic character of a stereotypical Bulgarian brute. In 1987 he was assassinated by mistake while he was traveling together with a local politician.
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