Zarine Sarajyan - Hamo Sahyan: Literary portrait
18 Pages | 98-116 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.3-98 | Revceived on: 2024-06-21 | Reviewed on: 2024-06-24 | Accepted for printing on: 2024-11-21
Published in: 2024 N 3 (227) / Literary studies
Hamo Sahyan (Hmayak Sahaki Grigoryan, 1914–1993) is an outstanding Armenian poet. His first collection of poems, entitled “On the Banks of the Vorotan”, was published in 1946. Later, he published the collections “On the Peak” (1955), “Nairyan Green Poplar” (1958), “Armenia in the Songs” (1962), “Before Sunset” 1964), “Song of the Cliffs” (1968), “Open, Sezam” (1972) etc.
KeywordsHamo Sahyan poetry nature man worldview pantheism homeland literary relations translation art philosophy.
David Gasparyan - The border of history and art (According to the novel “The White Horseman” by Hamastegh)
21 Pages | 150-171 | Revceived on: 2021-04-22 | Reviewed on: 2021-04-27 | Accepted for printing on: 2021-05-10
Published in: 2021 N 2 (217) / Articles, reports
The novel “The White Horseman” without Chapters 3 and 4 was published in “Hayrenik” magazine of Boston (1931, №. 7, 1933, №. 12) and then in a separate book in Los Angeles (vols. 1–2, 1952), in one volume in Yerevan (2016).
The time included in the novel is the 1890s. This is a novel with a historical-political program, but it is not a historical novel. There are historical hidden figures among the heroes: Cherchi Kiros – Hrayr Dzhoghk (Armenak Ghazaryan (1864–1904), Malkhas – Gevorg Chaush (Gevorg Ghazaryan) (1870–1907)), Nairyan – the conventional image of an ideological leader. The novel has a cer¬tain ideological orientation: shortly after the Genocide, the loss of the homeland, it tries to instill in the people the spirit of victory, even the dream of victory.
Keywords Hamastegh “The White Horseman” Martik Cherchi Kiros Berdak Vardadzor fedayi liberation war Armenian Kurdish Turkish homeland struggle heroes victory.
