About the Book
This is a first person narrative, told from the perspective of Peter Ivanov, a Bulgarian academic, whom we first meet in London, where he is temporary affiliated to the University, as a lector. While in London, he meets and begins an affair with Maria Reist, an Austrian au pair girl. We are led to believe that he is lonely and trapped in an unhappy marriage. The basis of the reported conversations between Peter and Maria is often contrastive political - ideological systems. For example, Peter says the following about the Bulgarian regime in the 70-s: „The ruling communist elite owns the country and the premier and his immediate followers are being worshipped". This prepares us for an exposition of an unjust system, ruling over the private lives of people. The communist system is often described using popular anecdotes. Upon completion of his contract with the University, Peter travels home, to Bulgaria. He shares part of the journey with Maria, but they part in Austria, agreeing to write to each other using a secret code, which Peter believes will conceal their affair from the Bulgarian Secret Service: „A" for „I love you", „B" for „I kiss you", etc. Upon his return, Peter's relationship with his wife and with the authorities becomes more embittered and disregarding his previously cited concerns about the Secret Services, Peter decides to divorce his wife and invites Maria to spend time with him in Bulgaria. Maria visits Peter twice. Her first visit puts Peter under surveillance and the Bulgarian State Security arranges a car accident, luckily both Peter and Maria survive the accident with minor injuries. Her second visit leads to their arrest at a border check point in Hungary, just before Peter attempts to leave the Communist Block illegally with an expired overseas passport. Peter was unaware, that he was long time under surveillance and that his wife was supplying the Secret Police with supposedly incriminating evidence. After his arrest, Peter was transferred
About the Author: 1955 -1959 High school. 1959 -1960 Obligatory army service. 1961-1966University student, University of Sofia, Bulgarian Philology, Sofia, Bulgaria. 1970-1973Post Graduate student in General, Applied, Structural and Computational Linguistics, Dep. of General Linguistics at the University of St. Petersburg, former Leningrad, Russia. 1966 - 1969, English Language High School, Russe, Bulgaria, as a tutor, in English. 1973 - 1980, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Bulgarian Language, Dep. of Structural, Applied and Mathematical Linguistics, as a research fellow. In the meantime, from 1975 to 1979, employed under exchange agreement between Bulgaria and the United Kingdom at London University, School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Oxford University, Brasenose College and Lady Margaret Hall, as a lector in Bulgarian Language. Since 1981 free-lance translator, author, Natural Language Processing software developer, owner of Good Language Software, a private business (1995-2000 ), later re-named to LANGSOFT. Books: 1. „Language Engineering", by Hristo Georgiev, published by The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. London - New York, 2007, ISBN: HB: 0-8264-8294-5 (hardback). C/C++ foundations of Natural Language Parsing, Grammatical and Orthographical Spell-checking, Machine Translation, Content Recognition, Text Attribution and Text Classification, Question Answering. 2. „English Algorithmic Grammar", by Hristo Georgiev, published by The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. London - New York, 2006, ISBN 0-8264-8777-7 (hardback), The book describes, algorithmically, the Natural Language Parsing and Word Reference method. 3. „Dictionary of Word Meanings", by Hristo Georgiev, published by Nova Science, New York, 2010, (Languages & Linguistics Series). ISBN: 1608763919: 9781608763917 The book offers an Artificial Language for Semantic Description used in the software programs developed by the author. Dr. Hristo Georgiev has U.S. patent for Automated Reasoning, with developed prototypes for English and German languages. Patent No: . U.S.8560305 B1, published on 15.10.2013.
