Open AccessFOR A MASS READER? NARINE ABGARYAN
Author(s) -
М.В. Кульгавчук
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
voprosy literatury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 0042-8795
DOI - 10.31425/0042-8795-2018-2-66-67
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , taste , period (music) , history , aesthetics , literature , art , psychology , archaeology , neuroscience
The article considers the works of a contemporary writer, winner of the Yasnaya Polyana 2016, N. Abgaryan in the context of the thinning borderline between mass and non-mass literature. Along with trying to make her readers laugh or shed a sympathetic tear ( That Broad That’s Just Moved In [ Ponaekhavshaya ], 2011), Abgaryan has another agenda of showing the daily life of modern Armenia and its tragic history ( People Who Are Always with Me [ Lyudi, kotorie vsegda so mnoy ], 2014), and insisting on a careful treatment of the single individual, of their past and future. The author argues that, after epitomizing the worst taste in the period between the 20th and the 21st centuries, mass literature has moved on to show a dramatic improvement of quality in the 2010s, as evidenced in N. Abgaryan’s works.