Վահան Թէքէեանի յոբելեանական շնորհակալական ճառը
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1998
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In February 1934, the fortieth anniversary of the Armenian poet Vahan Tekeyan's literary life was celebrated in Paris. Tekeyan hoped the hosting committee would be able to raise money, to publish some of his unpublished poetic works.
He was disappointed, however. The committee was able to achieve nothing but the Jubilee event.
In his speech of thanks, Tekeyan paid tribute to elderly Armenian authors, paid respects to the Armenian authors of his generation, (most of whom were massacred during the Armenian Genocide of 1915), expressed optimism regarding Soviet Armenia from which he had very high expectations, called the public to love its literature as it loved its nation and to take care of it as it had taken care of its schools and churches. He concluded with a summary of his world perception which includes the following beliefs:
• Religion is a basic means of awareness.
• Man is God to all those who don't believe in God.
• Man's body needs more soul and additional spirit today.
• Art breeds in us the epic spirit with which we are ready to realize whatever is requested from us.
• The friendship of a foreigner to an artist is more precious for the latter.
• We Armenians can unite only if we don't play politics. This is why more humane consciousness should be added to our national feeling.
• Man is neither an angel, nor a Satan, he walks on a string where the mind, conscience and soul are on the one end and body and instinct on the other. Balancing between these is the most important and most difficult task of man.
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Ղազարեան, Վ․, «Վահան Թէքէեանի յոբելեանական շնորհակալական ճառը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1998, Պէյրութ, էջ 327-329