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...live in such a mess here, I don't need to have a message in my stories," says Martin Karbovsky. "They speak for themselves." Karbovsky is one of the most popular writers for Egoist, a provocative monthly magazine that chronicles the harsh realities of life for young Bulgarians. With exposés on sex, drug communes and military service - stories that would have been unthinkable just five years ago - Karbovsky has become a cult figure whose cool cynicism castigates the country's chronic social and economic disarray...
...Egoist was started in 1996 as a hip lifestyle magazine aimed predominantly at young men. Its first hard-hitting cover - a stark black-and-white image of former beauty queen Euvgenia Kalkandjieva, showing the scars she received in a near-fatal 1996 gang attack in downtown Sofia - sparked widespread outrage and acclaim. Egoist's reputation for uncompromising journalism took off. Today the magazine has a circulation of 12,000, huge for the Bulgarian market, but it reaches as many as 75,000, with copies changing hands as many as 15 times. According to editor Alexander Zhekov, 31, the readership consists...
...Nazism - on which the government is seen to have failed. Karbovsky's message is unrelentingly bleak. "I gave this country my youth, my hopes, lots of hard work," he says. "Now all I want is for the material world to stop being a problem for me." An obvious egoist, Karbovsky nevertheless speaks for a generation of disillusioned young Bulgarians...
...began Ulysses in 1914; portions of it in progress appeared in the Egoist in England and the Little Review in the U.S., until the Post Office, on grounds of alleged obscenity, confiscated three issues containing Joyce's excerpts and fined the editors $100. The censorship flap only heightened curiosity about Joyce's forthcoming book. Even before Ulysses was published, critics were comparing Joyce's breakthroughs to those of Einstein and Freud...
...Tuesday on the stage of the Savoy Theater in London. In one corner, the challenger and clear crowd favorite, a pink- cheeked, brush-cut 28-year-old and the first native-born Briton ever to contend for the world title. In the other, the defending champ, an Armenian- born egoist, 30, with killer instincts and a reputation as the best warrior of all time. At stake: competitive pride and a purse of $2.6 million...