Mages and sages

Hristo Santulov

Beschreibung

Mages and Sages is a collection of fairy tales from other times, where good triumphs over evil, and where nature is the undisputed protagonist in a thousand seasonal nuances.Through these enchanting pages, you can feel the landscape of the seven famous mounts where the author grew up, home of games and dreams here transposed.The Rhodope mountains, their hills and colors, and the legends that whisper their magic, are the scenography that accompanies this collection not only designed for a young audience: in a world like the current one, made of images and violence, depicting brave characters fighting for ideals is not just an escape, but it is a hope towards a better future, fairer and healthier.Hristo Al. Santulov was born on Oct 30th in the ancient town of Plovdiv (Philippopolis) in 1940. He finished the Business school there in 1958, and in 1969 he graduated from the philosophy program of the St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. For forty years he taught philosophy at schools, as well as at the Plovdiv university St Paisius of Hilendar and the Thracian university. His doctoral thesis is dedicated to the problems of gnoseology and the philosophy of education.He is a young child during the harsh post WWII years. Time and place make their mark on him. Young Hristo is fascinated by the vibrant fast developing town full of characters of all nationalities.Far from being autobiographical or moralizing, Hristo shares the deepest values, ideas and impressions, the beauty of places and people that preserved the child born to a family of illiterate parents that still remembers the hunger and the bread tickets of postwar times. This kid grows up to be a pater familias, a philosophy doctor, an entrepreneur and a writer in his eighties, as fresh in his mind and tales as the mountain breeze he loves to describe so much.He has eight books of fiction published in Bulgarian and two in English - one in Europe by Europe Books and one in New York, the USA.

Verfügbar seit: 18.04.2025.

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