Language of edition: Armenian.
NOT A WEEK WITHOUT MATEVOSSIAN
Compiled and edited by Hayk Hambardzumyan
Publisher: Zangak
Yerevan, 2021
From the introduction “A Few Words”
Together with the author’s other books, this selection bears witness to our longing for the great writer’s work, for great literature in general and, through literature, perhaps also for life itself — in Matevossian’s precise and wonderful definition: “Literature is humanity’s longing for life. By making it monumental, literature makes us long for the person who is right beside us; it turns a market rose costing thirty or fifty kopecks into something lyrical. Literature is a creator equal to God, although a mere lieutenant longs to beat every Gabriel Lorca to death, and every company commander will order every Saroyan to crawl.”
Hayk Hambardzumyan