Նիւթեր Կոստան Զարեանի Նաւը Լերան վրայ վէպի երեւանեան հրատարակութեան մասին
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2006
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Kostan (also Gostan, Constant) Zarian (1885-1969), one of the main names in Armenian literature of the twentieth century, published his novel The Ship On The Mountain, often regarded as his magnum opus, in 1942 in Boston. The novel portrayed the years of the first Republic of Armenia (1918-1920) in a way relatively sympathetic to the short-lived independent state. In 1963, after Zarian’s definitive return to Soviet Armenia, a second edition of the novel was issued in Yerevan in a heavily bowdlerized form. This second edition triggered violent polemics among the intelligentsia in the Diaspora, polemics, which, indeed, reverberated in Armenia, as they dealt with matters of intellectual freedom and criticism of Soviet literary policies. It remains an enigma to this day to what extent the second edition was the result of Zarian’s free will and how Soviet censorship had an impact on the book.
The author discusses these issues with an extensive use of contemporary sources and publishes for the first time a cache of documents related to the second edition and discovered in the personal files of the poet Vahan Grigorian (1905- 1989), who at the time was the chief of the department of Literature in the Armenian State Publishing House (Haypethrat). Although these papers do not solve the question by themselves, they are helpful for understanding and documenting the changes undergone by the text, as well as for throwing some light on the role of different dramatis personae in this issue.
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Մատթէոսեան, Վ., «Նիւթեր Կոստան Զարեանի Նաւը Լերան վրայ վէպի երեւանեան հրատարակութեան մասին», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2006, Պէյրութ, էջ 297-358