MONOGRAM OF VLADIMIR KIRAKOSYAN"RUBEN SEVAK (LIFE AND WORK)"

Abstract

V. Kirakosyan's scientific interests mostly include Armenian literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When in 1967 he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of Literature after Manuk Abangyan on the life and work of the Western Armenian poet Ruben Sevak, who became a victim of the Genocide, only 8 years had passed since he graduated from the Department of Armenian Language and Literature of the Leninakan /Gyumri/ Pedagogical Institute. V. Kirakosyan set a task to open and comment in the artistic context of Western Armenian lyrics assessment of the literary heritage of Ruben Sevak at the turn of two centuries, noticing that the lyrical works of Ruben Sevak are contradictory, and at the same time one of the most interesting and capacious phenomena of Western Armenian literature at the beginning of the century. Trying not to break the ideological and artistic unity of the works of Sevak, Kirakosyan represents the characteristics of the general manifestations of the human, individual, social environment in the development of complex and contradictory manifestations of time, helps to perceive the seemingly complicated problems more clearly and descriptively. Vladimir Kirakosyan is endowed with a subtle sense of the poet, who presented the multi-thematic, multi-genre and multi-faceted work of Ruben Sevak so deeply and comprehensively that it became a kind of emotional bridge of poetry between the poet and the still unfamiliar reader. For Kirakosyan, the sacrament of love is evidence of the content and meaning of life. Namely this understanding of the issue gives the true shade and light to the love songs that form the core of Sevak's poetry. This approach is the reason of why the ideological and artistic unity of Sevak's works is so warmly reflected in Kirakosyan's imaginations. Trying not to violate it, the literary critic presents in the complex and contradictory manifestations of time a characteristic of the general manifestations of a person, an individual, a social environment, helps to perceive the seemingly complex problems more clearly and more obviously, without which Sevak's works would remain inaccessible and difficult phenomena. Love lyrics of Ruben Sevak by V. Kirakosyan reminds of the fairy tale of beautiful days gone. In gentle, romantic tones, the dawn of the poet's life and the legend of family happiness are depicted, which fades with the gloomy disaster that has overtaken the nation; and the beautiful narration of the bright soul is interrupted, by hands of murderers are interrupted both life, and love, and dreams... Sevak’s song on the homeland was also studied and gained significance, of the history and heroic battles of which the poet was proud, as thanks to them the nation has earned its right to live with dignity in this ancient and evil world. The literary critic Vladimir Kirakaosyan and the poet Ruben Sevak are similar in their perceptions and assessments, otherwise this successful union of song and interpretation would not have been created.