THE ONE WHO TRUSTED
Author: STEFAN BOCHEVSofia, 2000, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
The novel presents the fate of a Bulgarian born in the first years of the 20th century who took part in some of the great events of the world history till the beginning of the Cold War. The author reproduces the European and world events brightly and authentically, in the way he saw them as a reporter of Open Society and as a Bulgarian diplomat in Rome, Stockholm and Bern.
"...after all, what is the life of a man, the life of the entire humankind, if not a fight of chimeras? In which the one that turns out to be true – the one that wins – is the one which is stronger. And the stronger one is the more truthful one. And the more truthful is that in which the authentic human spirit burns..."