World literature is obviously so vast that any view of it cannot help but be partial; the question then becomes how to reduce the complex task of understanding and describing world literature. This is not the case because Bulgarian women did not write until the First World War, but because Bulgarian history has remained indifferent to their efforts and has stigmatized them to near invisibility. Where localism is seen as provincialism or, in a more benign view, as solipsism, in history it can be although it is not always celebrated and, if properly executed, can intervene by upsetting these dominant themes. The Black Madonna. However, while the wooden figurine can stay motionless in her eternal happiness, human life requires drama to develop the strength to conquer such tasks.
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