“Хоро” / “Horo”
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Autor:
Anton Strashimirov
Country:
Bulgaria (BG)
Book Theme:
Classic novels and Authors representing your country culture
Publisher:
Lexikon
Publishing Year:
1926
Anton Strashimirov is the restless spirit of Bulgarian modernism.He is not only a writer, but also an editor and a politician. He was a member of parliament three times, but this did not stop him from participating in the Balkan War as a private. During the Inter-Allies and the First World War, he was a military correspondent and collaborated with the newspaper “Military Notices” and the magazine “Fatherland”.He wrote prose genres on all kinds of themes, motifs and ideas, being influenced by Maeterlinck, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski. He is the author of ethnographic studies collected in “Book of Bulgarians” (1918), where he examines Bulgarian ethnic and ethnographic groups in detail. His works have been translated in many languages.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Тhe undisputed pinnacle of Anton Strashimirov’s work remains the novel “Horo”. On the background of the bloody suppression of the September Uprising of 1923, he makes a devastating dissection of the collapse of Bulgarian society. The narrative begins with a wedding, but it is actually, “a story about death.” The bloody horror of the chorus on the corpses of the slain affects the psyche in an extremely painful and memorable way.The main character Micheto is raped by the district chief, because he wants to takе her inhеritance by marrying her.His friend is the colonel, who threatens the girl that if she doesn’t do it, he will kill her lover.On the day of the wedding, a series of brutal murders occur, but Mic’s lover kidnaps and rescues her.The district chief falls into despair because he loses not his wife, but hер inheritance.The colonel takes the investigation into his own hands – he draws up a protocol in the presence of the mayor (the colonel and the mayor’s wife are lovers), his assistant and the prosecutor, and then they go to the 17 women who think they know where the girl is and shoot them. even elderly people were killed.
After throwing the corpses of the women on top of each other, they call the other women into the front yard to make them spit on them. The women refuse, the colonel becomes furious and calls for music to play traditional dance- horo. Makes the women play while the soldiers beat them with their whips. This is known as “the bloody dance”. The whole story is about money and how a man with power is so brutal and disrespectful to human’s life.
