Prof. Dr. G. Tihanov (Queen Mary, University of London)
The poetry of Bulgarian writer, translator and literary critic Geo Milev (1895-1925) embodies the complexities of European modernism through its aesthetic and conceptual journey from symbolism to expressionism. Milev’s poem Ad (Hell) was published three years before his untimely death at the hands of the Bulgarian police in 1925. The presentation explores the poem in the context of the European avant-garde.