The Writer‘s Memoir of Yordan Yovkov – Various Remembrance

The text chronologically traces the accumulation of writers’ memory about Yordan Yovkov within more than forty years. Conclusions have been derived about the dynamics in the construction of this memory with regards to the political context in Bulgaria during the second half of the 20th century. The book „Yordan Yovkov. Documents and testimonies of his life and work” (1947) deserves special attention and has a fundamental role in forming the memory of the writer. In the second part of the text, the presence of several literary topoi of repetition in the memoirs of Yordan Yovkov is traced – his tendency to contemplate, his affection for Dobrudzha, etc. In the course of the work, a different view of these texts is proposed, according to which the writers’ memory of the author recognizes his characters as identificationally important to his personality.