Екзистенциалните решения на Кирил Христов
Cyril Christov’s existential solutions

Summary/Abstract: Cyril Christov’s lyrics are labelled hedonistic, erotic in Bulgarian Literary studies. The poet is called sick of life, and with many synonyms, but it should be noted that the texts that carry these moods and senses are just a few among the impressive volume of poet’s lyrical legacy. The extraordinary, scandalous, provocative message shook the public taste through these texts in the 90s of the 19th century and is probably the reason why it was accepted as iconic and the rest of Cyril Christov’s poetic corpus was almost ignored. His hedonistic philosophy is a result of his existential drama in the search for the meaning of life. This drama is demonstrated in many texts written before the so-called hedonistic lyrics. It starts with the severance of his relations with society, whose Weltanschauung is very different from the beloved poet mentality, his loneliness in the world of others, and his understanding of how futile it is to serve culture. The era of the late 19th - early 20th century offered theocentric solutions for the meaning of life, the same as until mid-19th century. It did not offer a sense for public service as it has done during the Bulgarian National Awakening. Late 19th - early 20th century was a time of existential drama, individualism, pessimism, sadness, loneliness, an era when everyone addressed the meaning of life individually. Following many public mortifications and awareness of the futility of creativity Cyril Christov offers to master and experience eternity through moments of beauty and exhilaration of life as possible wisdom.

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