THE BEGINNING OF THE LITERARY RIDDLE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF BULGARIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Abstract

The article presents some of the specific features of the literary riddle in the works of some of the most prominent authors of children's literature – Dyado Blago and Trayko Simeonov. Using folk riddles as a basis for creating their own, the riddles of Dyado Blago and Trayko Simeonov, like the folk ones, reflect various phenomena of nature, allegorically depict objects from human life and labor, as well as from everyday life and spiritual culture. The two authors compellingly emphasize the poetry of small things, creating a system of images that educate children and encourage them to observe the surrounding world more carefully and thoughtfully. In the creation of these images, in the interesting descriptions of their qualities, the authors' imagination shines through, animating nature and giving a special aesthetic quality to the depiction. They are the first to establish realism in the literary riddle, avoid didacticism, and expand its cognitive possibilities thus bringing it as close as possible to works of fiction.