Георги Марков - Снимки с познати
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A book about Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov (1929-1978). After defecting from communist Bulgaria in 1969, Markov used such media as the BBC World Service and the US-funded Radio Free Europe to conduct a campaign of sarcastic criticism against the incumbent Bulgarian regime. He was assassinated in London, jabbed with an umbrella which fired a poison pellet into his leg as he crossed Waterloo Bridge. The book tries to answer a number of questions: Why did Markov actually leave Bulgaria in 1969? What was his fiction like compared to the works of other Bulgarian authors in the 1960s and the 1970s? How did he really feel about communism and about the West? What was his relationship with the Bulgarian political police? What are the things that have shaped our current perception of Markov? Ultimately, the book will make you think about the Bulgarian intelligentsia before, during, and after the communist era.
