Mikhail Sinelnikov wrote of Hrant Matevossian’s place in world literature:
“…Hrant Matevossian’s case is different. His true place is in an entirely different company: Thomas Mann, Hesse, Kafka, Čapek, Hamsun, Kipling, Joyce, Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Proust, Camus, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa…
Among the Russians, there are Bunin of ‘The Life of Arseniev’ and ‘Dark Avenues’, Sholokhov of ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’, Babel of ‘Red Cavalry’, and Platonov of the stories and novellas. This succession of giants, together with the recently departed Salinger and Márquez (perhaps a less undisputed choice), is completed by the Armenian prose writer Hrant Matevossian.”