Bulgarian author shot

This Monday the 35-year-old Georgi Stoev, author of several novels about the links between the Mafia and politics, was shot on one of Sofia's most popular squares. Just a day earlier, a prominent businessman was also killed in front of his apartment. Georgi Gospodinov is outraged: "It is probably unlikely that we are watching the border between reality and fiction dissolve, as it does in Stoev's books. But one thing is clear: his murder means a line has been crossed. How much longer do we have to put up with people trying to convince us that the mud we are stuck in is a field of flowers? We do not know who the contract killers are. But we recognise the demagogic intent to sell an illusion as normality. And we know who the architects of this illusory normality are, which is shattered every now and then by gunshots and explosions. There are also the set designers who arrange Bulgaria for the Brussels diplomats when they come to Sofia."

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