За македонцките работи (On Macedonian Matters) by Krste Petkov Misirkov i.e. How A Political Discourse is Created

The scientific work of Krste Petkov Misirkov, according to one available bibliography included in the phototypic edition of За македонцките работи58 from 1974, comprises 21 of the more important works of different character. These mainly elaborate cultural problematic and the majority are published in Sofia; two are in the Russian language and are published in Odessa, and for several works, place of publishing is unknown. At the bottom of all these analyses, the book titled За македонцките работи (On Macedonian Matters), published in Sofia in 1903 for the first time, can be conspicuously singled out. Several Macedonian editions of the work have been published so far – the last one in 200359 by the Tabernakul publishing house in Skopje. The same year, the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts published a parallel Macedonian – English version of Misirkov's work,60 for the 100th anniversary of the first edition.

In comparison to the numerous different jubilee editions of K.P. Misirkov's work, the work's critical analyses are small in number, given the importance these texts are prescribed in Macedonia. Here, primarily, we should single out the work of B. Korubin, Jазикот на Крсте П. Мисирков (Krste Petkov Misirkov's Language) from 1956, three articles by T. Dimitrovski and one on Misirkov's geographical system by T. Stamatovski.61 In this regard, the urgent need of substantial linguistic elaboration of all Misirkov's texts emerges, not only regarding lexis and graphics, but also morphology, syntax and cohesion62 of expression together with the author's style. To enable these analyses, a full critical edition is necessary, not only of Misirkov's work За македонцките работи, but also of all his texts, and not only by use of samples of the original versions (editio princeps) (phototypes), since these are already discovered in Macedonian philology, but all versions of the texts (editio ne varietur, editio posthuma, editio purificata), historical and linguistic commentary and glossary.