Language of edition: Russian.
HRANT MATEVOSSIAN
THE RETURN («Возвращение»)
Selected Works
Publisher: Text
Moscow, 2012
Andrei Bitov on Hrant Matevossian
“…The expansion of the symbol does not threaten to lay bare the structure: as the scope of generalisation grows in Matevossian’s prose, life becomes not more schematic but more vibrant — the effect of a master who pays for his text with his soul and love. Such is artistic convention at its highest: it is called art.”
Andrei Bitov
Mikhail Sinelnikov on Hrant Matevossian
“…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 Russian writers: 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 procession of giants, together with the recently departed Salinger and Márquez (perhaps less beyond dispute), is completed by the Armenian prose writer Hrant Matevossian.”
Mikhail Sinelnikov