"HRANT MATEVOSIAN CREATED A LITERATURE THAT SHOULD BE
TREATED AS A WORLD PEAK," RUSSIAN INTELLECTUALS CONSIDER
TREATED AS A WORLD PEAK," RUSSIAN INTELLECTUALS CONSIDER
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"HRANT MATEVOSIAN CREATED A LITERATURE THAT SHOULD BE
TREATED AS A WORLD PEAK," RUSSIAN INTELLECTUALS CONSIDER
07-06-2006 18:00:00 | Armenia | Culture
YEREVAN, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN. A memorial evening dedicated
to great Armenian writer Hrant Matevosian's 70th anniversary was
held at Moscow Central House of Writers within the framework of
Year of Armenia in Russia. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was
informed by David Matevosian, Director of the Hrant Matevosian
Foundation, the jubilee event was initiated by the Armenian
Embassy in Russia, Russian Federal Agency of Culture
Development, International Association of Russian Writers'
Unions, as well as RF and RA Culture Ministries.
Russian and Armenian intellectuals were also present at the
event. Mikhail Sinelnikov, Felix Kuznetsov, Sergei Shevelyov,
Rustam Ibrahimbekov, Felix Meloyan and Roman Balayan were among
them. They emphasized that H.Matevosian's creation "unanimously
obliges to treat it as a high world peak and not to think that
this literature is comparable with the samples of the world
culture." According to them, the generation of the 60-s has left
a huge trace in the world cultural heritage. This is the
"generation of war" born in 1920-40 - Hrant Matevosian, Sergei
Parajanov, Vasili Shukshin, Andrei Tarkovski and others.
"20-year-old young people do not know who is Hrant
Matevosian, but the public and lack of the state policy is more
to blame for this," the intellectuals said considering important
translation and publication of Armenian and Russian writers'
works. "A Russian child should know Hrant Matevosian, Hamo
Sahian and an Armenian child Andrei Bitov, Vasili Shukshin," the
intellectuals consider. According to them, we should bring up
our generations with this culture for the sake of the future of
our homeland.
"... Maybe today's youngest generation, may God give them a
long life, will see the day when Hrant will be properly
appreciated. What he has done for the Armenian language can be
compared only with what Pushkin has done for the Russian
language...," Russian writer Andrei Bitov had once said in one
of his speeches.
According to the Hrant Matevosian Foundation Director, it
is necessary that Hrant Matevosian's unpublished works be
translated, published and the works abridged in the years of the
Soviet censorship be republished. It is also time to include the
writer's works in the school textbooks: according to David
Matevosian, we cannot bring up the generation only with
H.Matevosian's story "Green Field" included in the textbooks of
middle classes.