The Organizing Committee of the annual interdisciplinary conference Text and Image invites the academic and artistic communities in Bulgaria and abroad to participate in the fourth edition of the forum. The aim is for the event to establish itself as a significant space for exploring the interaction between word and image and the different approaches to their aesthetic and cultural manifestations, attracting new participants from the country and abroad. This time, interdisciplinarity and intermediality will be a unifying principle. The previous editions of the conference show the diversity and productivity of this perspective and, above all, the opportunity to get closer to contemporary cultural sensitivity through it.

Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) was a Polish-born writer and playwright who resided in Argentina for 24 years (1939–1963). His provocative novels and plays have had a profound influence on European and world literature and theater. He is notorious for writing against the so-called Polishness and becoming a character in Argentinian literature. Gombrowicz disliked going to the theater, but starting in the 1960s, his plays were staged by renowned directors worldwide. Over the last 50 years, Gombrowicz’s Ivona, Princess of Burgundia (Iwona, księżniczka Burgunda, 1937) has also become the most widely performed Polish play of all time in other countries and languages. In Bulgaria, Ferdydurke was published in 1988 (2024); his plays in 1997 (transl. Dimitrina Lau-Bukowska), and Iwona has been produced thrice (dir. Elena Tsikova, 1991; dir. Boyan Slavov, 2002; dir. Ventsislav Asenov, 2006).