Professor Alexander Panov at 70 Years Old

The proposed article is dedicated to the literary theorist, methodologist, teacher Prof. Alexander Panov. The text examines part of his scientific production, with the main focus being on his latest book “Yordan Yovkov – the art of storytelling”, which examines in a theoretical aspect the latest theoretical positions related to narratology. Some of his analyzes Prof. Al. Panov offered to the magazine “Bulgarian Language and Literature” – “Albena”, “Indje” – so the basis of the book was already laid in the main methodical edition. Emphasis is placed on genre purity, which the researcher insists on, and the theoretical statement that the reader is an active figure in the act of reception, a part of the communicative process creating the literary work, is followed. The main problem is dialogicity, which must be achieved and the feeling of relative freedom in this communication in order for it to become co-communication and co-existence.