Վիլյամ Սարոյանը Դերենիկ Դեմիրճյանի հակասական գնահատումներում

Abstract

With this study we refer to two articles by DerenikDemirchyan, written in 1946 և 1953. In them, Demirchyan expresses contradictory opinions on William Saroyan’s literature and civic description. The point is that Saroyan, being a great supporter of the Soviet Union, and of course, Soviet Armenia, for some reason did not sign the Peace Call adopted in 1950 on the initiative of a number of countries, including the Soviet Union, known as the Stockholm Call. We assume that Demirchyan wrote the 1953 article on the orders of the Soviet regime, in which he severely criticized Saroyan, considering him a faithful servant of the morals of the bourgeois world, to whom humanitarian, peaceful approaches are hostile. And this is in the case when in the article published in 1946 Demirchyan claimed the exact opposite and gave the highest assessment to Saroyan’s works and the human image. We have raised these contradictory views in our article and presented a number of sources and views that shed light on the reasons for DerenikDemirchyan’s contradictory approaches.