“Диви разкази” / Wild stories
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Autor:
Nikolay Haitov
Country:
Bulgaria (BG)
Book Theme:
From book to video
Publisher:
Anubis
Publishing Year:
1967
Nikolay Haitov is among the most popular contemporary writers, the author of artistic and journalistic works of various genres and themes. We associate him with the Rhodope region and the people of Rhodope, to whom he dedicates some of his most emblematic works. In 1967, Haytov’s famous book Wild Stories was released. Since published in ten editions in Bulgaria and translated in 28 languages, including Chinese, it is regarded as one of the most successful modern Bulgarian literary works. The book is included in the UNESCO Historical Collection. Haytov’s Selected Works was published in 1989 in three volumes. He has written over 10 stage plays, 800 articles and reviews. He was also the screenplay writer for a number of films and TV series, including The Goat Horn (1972).
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Turkish slavery. The Turk, Deli Mustafa, rapes Karaivan’s beautiful wife, as a result of which she cannot survive the shock and dies. After this incident, the grief-stricken widower and his daughter Maria moved to live far away, in the mountains, isolated from the world. Everyone thinks that he has lost his mind, but gradually Turks, having committed atrocities against one or another paradise, is found dead, pierced by a goat’s horn in the chest.No one managed to find the killer, and the enslaved population gradually began to relax, believing that the “goat’s horn” was an avenger and their protector from the enemy Turks. At one of the festive people in the village, a young girl appears, dances, but during the dance, a goat’s horn falls from her bosom, and the people understand that she is the murderer – the daughter of Karaivan Maria.In order not to be caught, she threw herself into the abyss and died, and her father managed to escape to a monastery. On his deathbed, he confessed and revealed that he had raised Maria as a man all his life, so that one day his enemies would fall from his hand and be killed, to take revenge for the injustices and, above all, for the death of his mother; he even kills the shepherd with whom Maria has begun to fall in love and the woman in her awakens…
