ОТ БУКВАТА ДО ИСТОРИЯТА
FROM THE LETTER TO THE HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: Тhe proposed article reviews the link between writing and personality by emphasizing GeorgiBenkovski’s attitude to several letters while being the main leader during the 1876 April Uprising.For this purpose it begins with the peculiarity of Benkovski’s writing the grapheme „и“ which is described in the book „Notes on the Bulgarian Uprisings“ by Zahari Stoyanov. The book outlines a parodic contrast: on the one hand, Benkovski has determination and a powerful voice that affirms him as the main leader of the uprising. On the other hand, he is powerless as he writes, something that Zahari Stoyanov masterfully suggests without presenting any text from Benkovski’s letters, but just the way he writes the grapheme „и“ in them. Benkovski seems to fetishize the letters of the illiterate people, but criticizes the grammatically correct letters in beautiful handwriting because he thinks that they hide the truth. The article reveals these acts of Benkovski from two perspectives. First, according to the „Notes...“ Benkovski makes the new Bulgarian history with his transgressive voice which he uses in the fight for freedom and the way he becomes mute after the defeat of the uprising. Second, it shows that under certain circumstances the handwriting of Benkovski can be used to identify his visual image which is disputed in Bulgaria.

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