Կոստան Զարեանի եւ Սիմոն Վրացեանի նամակագրութենէն
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2009
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We published the letters exchanged by writers Kostan Zarian (1885-1969) and Arshag Tchobanian (1872-1954) in 1917-1919, 1945-1946, and 1950 in the Haigazian Armenological Review of 2007. At the time we made reference to Zarian's letters from 1922-1931, kept in the Museum of Literature and Art "Eghishe Charents" of Erevan. Herewith, we publish those letters in their entirety (33 letters and messages). The whereabouts of Tchobanian's answers is so far unknown.
A few letters (numbers XI, XIV, XIX, XX, and XXXII) were first published in Soviet Armenian orthography by Gohar Aznavourian in 1975. That publication had various abridgements and misreadings and did not contain footnotes of any kind. We republish those letters, as well as letters XIV, XV, and XVII, which we previously published in 1993, with textual corrections.
This series of letters presents several periods of Zarian's life. In 1922 the writer was living in Constantinople, and his letters give some insights into the efforts to start a new cultural and literary movement. After leaving Armenia (1922-1924), he went to Paris, where he launched the international literary journal La Tour de Babel (one issue, 1925), and tried to secure Tchobanian's collaboration. From 1929-1931 Zarian was in talks with the French- Armenian writer for the publication of the Armenian original of his poem "Three Songs." The lettes give important details about the Italian translation of that poem, first published in 1916. He also makes remarks about the relaunching of Tchobanian's literary journal, Anahit, in 1929, Armenian literary and political life, the situation in Soviet Armenia, and his private life, especially his efforts to secure a college scholarship for his elder son.
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Վարդան Մատթէոսեան, «Կոստան Զարեանի եւ Սիմոն Վրացեանի նամակագրութենէն», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2009, Պէյրութ, էջ 297-328