I asked:
‘Márquez has said: “For me, the greatest difficulty is the adjective, the place of the adjective, and on that, I believe, depends whether a particular piece of writing belongs to literature or not…
The adjective is what distinguishes one writer from another: it is his way of seeing reality, his colour, his voice.”
What does Hrant Matevossian think?’
He replied:
‘Let Márquez say that. Márquez can say that. But we Armenians are sick of adjectives. Our whole life has been an adjective. Our whole literature is a literature of adjectives. Ours will be the noun! Our people, our literature, our writers need the noun!’
Hovhannes AYVAZYAN
Ar, 1 March 1995.
Journalism and Commentary
Published in 1995