"Giordano Bruno. Lights from the Pyre" (1966) by the Philosopher Slavi Boyanov – a Literary Version of the Manuscript "Protection of the Human Person" Confiscated by the State Security (1953)

Abstract

The paper traces the migration of a philosopher in the literary field. The purpose of this text is to prove, through the method of mutual interpretation (parallel reading of works of fiction, documentary texts and historiographical narrative), that Slavi Bo-yanov's novel ‘Giordano Bruno’. is a literary compensation for his confiscated manu-script ‘Defense of the Human Person’ (1953), which was not published until 1997. The contribution of the study is that it illuminates another case of an intellectual's strained relationship with the authorities in power.