Armenian Literature The Literary Freedom Fighter-Egishe Charents Written by Grigor Hakobyan (webmaster) He fought against the Turks in Van in 1912. He fought for the Soviets in Red October. He helped make Armenia “communist.” He was, for all intents and purposes, killed by the Soviets. He’s the warrior-diplomat-rebel master of Armenian poetry. His works were classics as soon as they were printed, and his legacy is that of the activist artist. He’s a man who reported on the taking of arms and a man who took arms himself—his name, is Charents. ![]() Yeghishe Soghomonyan was born in 1897, March 13 in Kars, one of the former capitols of Armenia, currently located in North-Eastern Turkey. Born into a family of tradesman, he became one of the legendary figures of Armenian art and anti-Soviet activism. His works have fostered generations of patriotic Armenians and have been translated and read by peoples as diverse as the subjects on which he wrote. One of the leaders of the literary elite of the Soviet Union, his poetic dynamism and musical modality set him apart as one of the most inspired poets—not Armenian poet, but poet—of the twentieth century. The ever socially conscious writer, Charents covered topics such as civil war in Russia and Armenia, world communism, famine, poverty, World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution of Red October 1917 and everyday life. Langston Hughesesque in his negotiation of social ills and the state of his people, Charents found that the essence of these ideas lay within the history of his people and within nationalism. Actually, considering that Charents and Hughes were relative contemporaries of one another, Hughes could equally be called Charentsesque—in either case, I’m sure neither would mind the epithet. At first, inspired by Communist utopianism, he spurred his fellow countrymen to fight for the victory of Communism and Leninism in Armenia and abroad. ![]() As he later experienced the realities of the Soviet brand of communism he became a famous anti-Soviet, gradually increasing the nationalistic tone in his works. His political dissidence led to his arrest by the Armenian NKVD (same as KGB) on the orders of Moscow during the Great Purge, and his further imprisonment and ultimate death at the age of forty in the jail for political dissidents in Yerevan. At age fifteen, Charents enlisted as a volunteer in an Armenian self-defense regiment fighting Turks in Van. Smart bro dashboard installer download. Files32.com collects software information directly from original developers using software submission form. Stream Hovhannes Shiraz 'Hayots Danteakan ' kardum e Nune Avetisyan by topaz99 from desktop or your mobile device. Comments are welcomed and encouraged. However, comments not pertaining to the topic or containing slander or offensive language will be deleted. You have to be registered to be able leave your comment. Traduction de 'Danteakan araspel' de Tcharents. Avec un long article, presque un petit essai, sur l'oeuvre ainsi que sur ses traducteurs. Il met en contraste. His active participation in the national struggle to defend his homeland, inspired Charents to write such major works as: “Danteesque Legend” (Danteakan Araspel, 1916), “Three Songs to a Pale Girl” (Erek erg tkhradaluk aghjkan, 1914), “Blue-Eyed Homeland” (Kaputachia Hyerenik, 1915), and “Rainbow” (Tsiatsan, 1917). In 1916, Yeghishe Charents went to Moscow, to pursue literary studies at the Shaniavskii Institute. Immediately following the October Revolution of 1917, he put himself into the service of the Soviet Union, where he actively fought within the Red Army against Armenian and Russian nationalists from 1918-1921. During that time, Charents wrote other significant poetic pieces, including “Soma” (1918), and “The Demented Crowds” (Ambokhnere Khelagarvats, 1919), which became one of the most respected Soviet poems about the October Revolution. Thereafter, in June of 1921, Yeghishe Charents married Arpenik Ter Astvatsatrian, who passed away less than seven years after they were married. The year after their marriage, Charents published, in two volumes, a collection of his poems entitled, Collected Works (Ergeri Zhoghovatsu), which became widely available throughout the Soviet Union. Charents spent 1924 and 1925 as a Soviet diplomat, traveling throughout the Armenian Diaspora, visiting Italy, France, Germany, Turkey and other countries, urging Diasporan Armenian writers to return to Armenia, and continue their literary work there. After Charents returned to Armenia, in 1925, he and a group of other talented Armenian writers including: Gegham Sarian, Gurgen Mahari, Vagharshak Norents, Mkrtich Armen, and Aksel Bakunts founded a literary organization called the Association of Armenian Proletarian Writers. Unfortunately, many of his colleagues mentioned here were either deported to Siberia, or shot or both, under Stalin’s regime. During the years following 1925, Charents published his satirical novel, Land of Nairi (Yerkir Nairi), which rapidly became a great success among the people. Later on, Charents became the director of Armenia’s State Publishing House, while he continued his literary career, and began to translate, into Armenian, literary works by various writers like: Pushkin, Nekrasov, Esenin, Maiakovskii, Goethe, Gor'kii, Remard Verhaeren, Walt Whitman and others. Charents also published such famous novels as: Rubayat (1927), Epic Dawn (Epikakan Lussapats, 1930), and Book of the Road (Girk Chanaparhi, 1933). The last collection in this list, also the last book he ever published, contains his reflections on Armenia's past, the folk epic David of Sassun, verses on art, and cultural and philosophical lyrics.
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