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Aleko Konstantinov was born on January 1st 1863 in the city of Svishtov. He lived in a rich family which hired him private teachers.Later he went to the April High School in Gabrovo. He attended the Faculty of Law of the University of Odessa, graduating in 1885. He worked as a jurist in Sofia before embarking on a writing career.
Konstantinov, a cosmopolitan traveler, was the first Bulgarian to write about his visits to Western Europe and America. He has visited the World Exhibitions in Paris in 1889, Prague in 1891 and Chicago in 1893. Hе was assassinated in 1897 near Radilovo.
Aleko Konstantinov was a writer of many itineraries which show his impressions of the travels he made to Chicago, Paris and Prague.He has also written a few feyletons like „Different men, different ideals” etc.His most famous book is called Bay Ganyo.
Bay Ganyo is a fictional character created by Bulgarian author Aleko Konstantinov (1863–1897). He is at present considered an exemplary image of an anti - hero:
uneducated, ignorant, egoistic. He is often perceived as an ethnic stereotype of the uneducated, profit-driven
and oriental Bulgarian.
The full name of the book is “Bay Ganyo.The Amazing Journeys Of a Bulgarian”. It consists of essays, each one telling a story in the travels of the bulgarian rose oil seller Ganyo Somov(or Ganyo Balkanski) around Europe.He is very special, because he doesn’t have any positive traits of character.
The first part is about my travels around Europe.
The book is divided in two parts – “Bay Ganyo Goes To Europe” and “Bay Ganyo Comes Back From Europe”
The second part is about my political life in Bulgaria.
„There is hardly any other effigy in our literature, so differently and contradictory explained , as Aleko’s Bay Ganyo”
Boyan Penev
