The American Chronicles in Bulgaria
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Burr (2001)
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Lincoln (2002)
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1876 (2002)
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Empire (2006)
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Hollywood (2005)
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In 2001, the Bulgarian publisher Ciela launched a uniform edition of
Vidal’s
American Chronicle novels and will have released six of the novels in
paperback editions by the middle of 2002. Another Bulgarian publisher has
issued a translation of the seventh novel, The Golden Age. The
Ciela series began with the first two novels written by Vidal,
Washington, D.C. and Burr, and is especially significant
because it finally brings Lincoln to Bulgaria. That novel was
translated nearly a decade ago, but the publisher that commissioned the
translation went out of business before it could issue the book. Three of
the Chronicles - Burr, Washington, D.C. and Hollywood -
appeared in Bulgaria between 1979 and 1992 (below right), and the new
edition of Washington, D.C. restores brief passages that the
earlier publisher couldn't print the first time around: a sexual encounter
between two teen-age boys, and fleeting references to Russia and
Communism. (The old Bulgarian constitution prohibited anti-Soviet and
anti-Communist statements.) This new series of novels from Ciela marks the
first Bulgarian publication of 1876, Empire and Lincoln.
As for The Golden Age: Because another Bulgarian publisher
obtained the rights to translate the novel, the book (below), although
very attractive, does not appear in a uniform edition that matches the
first six Ciela books.
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Washington, D.C. (2001)
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Golden Age (2002)
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Burr (1979)
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Hollywood (1992)
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Washington, D.C. (1984)
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