Torch (magazine)

Torch is a Bulgarian literary magazine published in 1981–2011. and acquainting Bulgarian readers with the most valuable and vivid works of Russian literature. Its permanent chief editor was the poet Georgi Borisov .

The magazine was founded by the Union of Bulgarian Writers and the Union of Translators in Bulgaria, and its first issue was published in 1981 . On the cover it was written - "dvuhmesychnik Soviet literature." Over time, works on his pages began to appear that were not even printed at home, such as the “ Juvenile Sea ” and the “ Kotlovan ” by Andrey Platonov , “ We ” by Yevgeny Zamyatin (translated by R. Birdarskaya ), “ The Heart of a Dog ” and “ Fatal Eggs” " Mikhail Bulgakov ," Moscow-Petushki " Benedict Erofeev and many others. In 1989, it was intended to be closed due to the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's " The GULAG Archipelago ". Only thanks to the intervention of prominent Bulgarian and Russian intellectuals did the publication continue to exist. Among the authors who published on the pages of “Torch” in the later years are Joseph Brodsky , Viktor Yerofeyev , Evgeny Popov , Viktor Pelevin , Milan Kundera , Danilo Kish , Dubravka Ugresic , Emil Choran , Cheslav Milos .

Initially, Torch released six issues a year, then four. In 2010 and 2011 managed to release only one volume. In the latest issue of Fakel, the main publications were the small prose of Daniil Kharms , The Embankment of the Incurable by Joseph Brodsky, the poems of Yevgeny Rein and the prose of Anatoly Korolev .