BULGARIA AND FUTURISM. THE CIRCLE OF YAMBOL FUTURISTS

Abstract

The article examines a significant phenomenon for modernism in Bulgaria from the beginning of the 20th century – the circle of Yambol futurists and their connection with Italian futurism. When we talk about Italian futurism and its spread in many European and non-European countries, the place occupied by Bulgaria is almost insignificant. It is usually limited to the circumstances that accompanied the emergence and concern the most basic content of one of Marinetti's most famous works - the poem in "words of freedom" Dzang Tumb Tumb, Adrianople, October 1912, almost unanimously considered his masterpiece, in which the creative impulses and the brilliant overall fabric of the text serve to illustrate the theories ardently propagated by the author in his battle to oppose the past and related to "words of freedom", to "wireless imagination" and the "destruction of syntax". A few years later (1922) the city of Yambol became a center of immediate and direct interest in Marinetti's work.At only eighteen, the future famous essayist and art critic Kiril Krastev published part of Dzang Tumb Tumb and the translation of Geometric and Mechanical Splendor and Numerical Sensitivity. At that time, Yambol was a hotbed of revolutionary ideas, with young people participating in various political groups – from social democrats to anarcho-communists. For them, “modern” was expressed by expressionism and futurism.