HRANT MATEVOSSIANLiterary Archive
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Published in 2000

Self portrait

- Your zodiac sign.
- Aquarius.
- Are you a believer?
- I believe in the country of bright homes, clean gardens, healthy children, skilled workers, knowledgeable doctors, and innocent poets.
- Are your parents believers?
- My parents are peasant Armenians, one day they are believers, two days they are not.
- Your favorite animal?
- Once upon a time, I asked my friends to draw a lamb, an ewe, a calf, a foal, a small tree, and a small boy next to it.
- Your favorite weather.
- Early spring, beginning of May, clean, full autumn.
- What crazy things do you have?
- I don't have any craziness, self-control is always there. I don't like crazy people.
- Do you like your appearance?
- I didn't like my appearance. That's why I tried to proofread it with literature.
- Has there been any shocking incident in your life?
- There was one such case, but it cannot be considered a case, because it has been going on for several decades. it's my getting married.
- Are you a happy person?
- I am happy to the extent that I have seen the face of the god of literature a couple of times.
- Have you had a desire to give up life, do you love life?
- If I had been brave, I should have refused a long time ago, but you will remain without an owner. I am afraid that you will remain a flock of sheep without a shepherd, to be eaten by the wolf. Maybe this is self-delusion, or maybe I'm playing some kind of role as a death escaper...
- What is literature for you?
- Literature is a religion for me.
- What is the truth confirmed by literature?
- Literature brought God, placed it in man.
- What do you think about the relationship between literature and ideology?
- What kind of ideology should the writer correspond to? if it's nationalist, it's not literature, if it's communist, it's not literature, if it's humanist, it's sweet, if it's bourgeois, it's not literature, if it's close, it's not a writer, but a preacher. A writer is required to be simultaneously present at the points listed and many more...
- What is the writer's mission today?
- Time to create a language for reading.
- What is the advantage of your literature? What did you want to change in the world that did or didn't change?
- I wanted to write a gospel for the Armenian country.
- What would you like to save the people of Tsmakutz and Notsmakutz from?
- Ambitious from the culture that gathers armies, takes its ideals with weapons to other people's land, wraps them around people's necks, as if there is an idea bigger than a person. Let's remember and hate Alexander the Macedonian, Napoleon, Hitler. It is a terrible thing when these epidemic "ideas" break out in great nations...
- What did true literature say?
- If you read and say: this is not about me, but about my neighbor, it means that the accuracy of the case is approximate.
- "Art for art's sake". Is there such a principle, pure art?
- When art is for art's sake, only then does it become for man.
- Who is an Armenian?
- Does not fall to the bottom and does not rise to the top. That person is the Armenian.
- About space.
- The limit of the universe is our madness.
- And infinity?
- Infinity is our impotence.
- Your question to you.
- Oh Hrant, you have drunk all your cognacs, you have experienced all your pleasures, what do you want from the world?

Hrant Matevossian

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