Եւա Մնացականեան2026-02-182026-02-182016Մնացականեան, Ե., «Յովհաննէս Թումանեանի «Լոռեցի Սաքօն» ժամանակի գնահատմամբ», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2016, Պէյրութ, էջ 431-444https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/1216Tumanyan's poem, "Loretsi Sakon" (Sako from Lori), is a rare case in Armenian literature as it elicited an unsurpassed amount of criticism and contradictory assessments. The paper surveys the contemporary critiques of the poem. It analyses the nature of the critiques as they argued whether a strong, courageous figure like the hero of the poem, Sako, could fall victim to superstitions and become psychologically ill. The literary critics of the time, with few exceptions, rejected the author's combination of courage and fear from superstitions in one person. They argued that such a duality in a hero's personality was not convincing. The paper concludes, however, that notwithstanding the modifications and improvements Tumanyan made to the poem based on the criticism, he did not shift from his conviction and maintained the conceptual climax of the poem: that superstition, particularly in those days, could make such courageous people its prey.