The paper focuses on the political serialized writings of one of the greatest Armenian humorists, Ler Gamsar. These series reflect the dire life of the Armenian nation in the first two decades of the 20th century.
They can be considered as chapters of Armenian history written by Ler Gamsar. The author notes that these series narrate well known stories from a different perspective and stresses that the author's piercing eyes have noticed and cold-bloodedly registered what other authors have missed due to either bias or lack of daring.
Gamsar's healthy criticisms basically touch upon the performance of Armenian national leaders, who held responsibility for the nation's destiny. The character of his series are normal people, party activists, mostly known through history books. In certain cases Gamsar personifies the foreign country and develops a dialogue that enables the reader to better understand and interpret the conditions and the situation of the time.
During the second half of the 19 century, in line with Europe, some Western Armenian intellectuals started to become acquainted with positivist and materialistic ideas. One of these intellectuals was Anton Madatya Karakashian, who, under the influence of the German materialist philosopher Büchner, quit his clerical sta...
The paper focuses on the two novels of contemporary Armenian writer and publicist Hrachya Saribekyan, The Twins' Sun and The Idiots' Journey.
The paper examines the themes of these novels, their conceptual construction on notions of life, death, time, resurrection after death, etc. It notes as well that the names of th...
The research focuses on the contradictory claims concerning the annihilation of the Armenians and Greeks in Smyrna and the arson in its Armenian and Greek quarters.
Based on collected data, information, eyewitness accounts and media reports, the paper rejects the Turkish claims that the arson was caused by Armenians an...
The paper is an attempt to reintroduce the literature of the best Western Armenian author and short story writer, Krikor Zohrab, with a different interpretation.
The author argues that Zohrab's literature comes close to Europan naturalist literature, though literary critics have tried to avoid observing such a feature...
The 1930s regime in the former USSR spread an atmosphere of violence and terror in the country, killing both ordinary citizens and many talented scientists and artists.
The Armenians in the USSR acutely felt the Stalinist oppression as thousands of Armenians were killed or exiled.
The article focuses on a number of lit...
Positivist thought found some echoes within the Armenian circles of Constantinople and Smyrna as of the second half of 19th century.
Positivism promoted positivism against metaphysics and religion. Old norms were to be replaced by new perceptions. Gosdantian Armenian book, About Method, is nothing but a promotion of po...
