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About Anatomy of illusion

“In her novel, she smartly and creatively shapes the structure and builds an effective, lavish and dramatic epic work about the Bulgarian “stormy 20 years” on the dividing line of the two centuries, resembling the processes that have taken place in Russia, for example, since the time of restructuring (“PEREASTROIKA”). The author looks for the metaphoric and moralistic summary of bygone tragic days of fracture, of deeply moving human sorrows and dramas, after which Bulgaria has dramatically changed her image.

With her novel “GLASS BUTTERFLIES” LUDMILA FILIPOVA has asserted herself as a capable and experienced author ready to enter unknown and virgin territory. “GLASS BUTTERFLIES” is written in modern style and contains both attractive and clear messages. It stands out among the most precious achievements of the contemporary Bulgarian prose, a phenomenon which is yet to be judged on its merits. Being aware of what kind of explosion hazardous matter is dealing with the author uses the dexterities of drama, fabulousness, tense thriller investigation and documentary fiction, placing the plot of her novel from 1999 to 2026 having the clear vision that the problems she is taking up which barely no one has jet paid attention to appears to be extremely topical, meaningful and worth the efforts of two years of hard work that accompanied the delivery of the novel.

Ancient myths from both Bulgaria and the world, historical sources along with a lot fictionalized past, quoted manuscripts with lost ends, roads that cross, and characters in whose destinies events from more than a century and a half ago come together: these are only some of the ideas behind The Parchment Maze. The intricate interplay of history, its interpretations and politics in the novel determines the characters’ personal stories, while the author takes us through a number of genres in her writing: thriller, philosophical and historical novel, non-fictional and matter-of-fact literature. And although this technique reminds us of the voices of some of the bestselling writers of the day such as Dan Brown and Elizabeth Kostova, and even the internationally acclaimed Umberto Eco, The Parchment Maze shows us that these voices are very well assimilated into the writing of its author, who, nevertheless, retains her own style, respects the readers and relies on their active interpretation of the text, while at the same time wanting her writing to be convertible.