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Born in [[Lovech]], he is best known for his best-selling novel ''Tobacco'' ({{lang-bg|Тютюн}}, [[Transliteration|translit.]] ''Tyutyun''), which was made into the 1962 [[Tobacco (film)|film ''Tobacco'']], directed by [[Nikola Korabov]]. Dimov's "Tobacco" is the story of the |
Born in [[Lovech]], he is best known for his best-selling novel ''Tobacco'' ({{lang-bg|Тютюн}}, [[Transliteration|translit.]] ''Tyutyun'', 1951), which was made into the 1962 [[Tobacco (film)|film ''Tobacco'']], directed by [[Nikola Korabov]]. The plot of Dimov's "Tobacco" deals with the fates of a number of characters connected to a major tobacco factory. The central thread of the plot is the story of Boris, an ambitious youth of poor origins who renounces his first love Irina to marry Maria, the heiress of the tobacco business. He proceeds to steer the business with great greed and ruthlessness. His wife's descent into insanity and death in the loveless marriage subsequently allows him to marry Irina, who has studied to become a nurse, but is seduced by the promise of the luxurious life as a mistress and, eventually, spouse of an affluent factory owner. However, their common life is poisoned by the preceding events and by their own selfishness and moral decay. Other characters, including a brother of Boris and a friend of Irina who works at the factory, are devoted to the Communist movement and its struggle; these and various other plot threads make the book into a broader picture of capitalist Bulgaria in the years leading up to the communist seizure of power. The novel criticises the egoism, careerism, greed and exploitation characteristic of the class society that it depicts from a socialist perspective. |
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| ⚫ | Other novels authored by Dimov are ''Lieutenant Benz'' (1938), a story of fatal love between flawed characters during [[World War I]], and ''[[Osadeni Dushi|Doomed Souls]]'' (1945), a tragic tale of a dissolute young Englishwoman's passionate obsession with a fanatical and reactionary [[Jesuit]] monk set in Spain during the [[Spanish civil war|civil war]]. His plays included ''Holiday in Arko Iris'' and ''Women with a Past''.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Don |last=Rubin |year=1994 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |title=The World encyclopedia of contemporary theatre |page=159 |isbn=0-415-05928-3 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B9RV5UFtPNMC&pg=PA159&dq=Dimitar+Dimov&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a}}</ref> |
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From this work, Dimov is trying to show the significance of the organized struggle, contacted by the young Communist Party of Bulgaria against the land-owners in affiliation to the newly founded Soviet Union. |
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Tobacco became the "Bible" of the Communists in the Balkan region, as it shows how working class can become from a bunch of slaves to the ruling class in a country. And that is mainly the reason the Dimov was widely respected among the Bulgarians, even after the 1988 turn over. |
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| ⚫ | Other novels authored by Dimov are ''Lieutenant Benz'' and ''[[Osadeni Dushi|Doomed Souls]]''. His plays included ''Holiday in Arko Iris'' and ''Women with a Past''.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Don |last=Rubin |year=1994 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |title=The World encyclopedia of contemporary theatre |page=159 |isbn=0-415-05928-3 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B9RV5UFtPNMC&pg=PA159&dq=Dimitar+Dimov&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a}}</ref> |
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Dimov died in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]. There is a bust of Dimov in the [[Borisova gradina]] park behind the [[Vasil Levski National Stadium]] in [[Sofia]]. His daughter, [[Theodora Dimova]], is also a writer. In addition, a number of [[elementary school]]s across Bulgaria are named in his honor (particularly in [[Lovech]], his hometown, and in [[Plovdiv]]). |
Dimov died in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]. There is a bust of Dimov in the [[Borisova gradina]] park behind the [[Vasil Levski National Stadium]] in [[Sofia]]. His daughter, [[Theodora Dimova]], is also a writer. In addition, a number of [[elementary school]]s across Bulgaria are named in his honor (particularly in [[Lovech]], his hometown, and in [[Plovdiv]]). |
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Revision as of 21:11, 17 January 2016
Dimitar Todorov Dimov (Template:Lang-bg, 25 June 1909 – 1 April 1966) was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.
Biography
Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco (Template:Lang-bg, translit. Tyutyun, 1951), which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov. The plot of Dimov's "Tobacco" deals with the fates of a number of characters connected to a major tobacco factory. The central thread of the plot is the story of Boris, an ambitious youth of poor origins who renounces his first love Irina to marry Maria, the heiress of the tobacco business. He proceeds to steer the business with great greed and ruthlessness. His wife's descent into insanity and death in the loveless marriage subsequently allows him to marry Irina, who has studied to become a nurse, but is seduced by the promise of the luxurious life as a mistress and, eventually, spouse of an affluent factory owner. However, their common life is poisoned by the preceding events and by their own selfishness and moral decay. Other characters, including a brother of Boris and a friend of Irina who works at the factory, are devoted to the Communist movement and its struggle; these and various other plot threads make the book into a broader picture of capitalist Bulgaria in the years leading up to the communist seizure of power. The novel criticises the egoism, careerism, greed and exploitation characteristic of the class society that it depicts from a socialist perspective.
Other novels authored by Dimov are Lieutenant Benz (1938), a story of fatal love between flawed characters during World War I, and Doomed Souls (1945), a tragic tale of a dissolute young Englishwoman's passionate obsession with a fanatical and reactionary Jesuit monk set in Spain during the civil war. His plays included Holiday in Arko Iris and Women with a Past.[1]
Dimov died in Bucharest, Romania. There is a bust of Dimov in the Borisova gradina park behind the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. His daughter, Theodora Dimova, is also a writer. In addition, a number of elementary schools across Bulgaria are named in his honor (particularly in Lovech, his hometown, and in Plovdiv).
References
- ^ Rubin, Don (1994). The World encyclopedia of contemporary theatre. Taylor and Francis. p. 159. ISBN 0-415-05928-3.
Bibliography
- Димитър Веселинов. Френската лексика в романа "Тютюн" [The French words in the novel Tobacco], София, Сиела, 2009, 304 с
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