Գարեգին Սրվանձտյանը Հովհաննես Թումանյանի՝ բանահյուսական ակունքների մշակման շրջագծում

Artistic processing of folklore materials is one of the main areas of Hovhannes Tumanyan’s literary preferences. As a creative person and researcher, he has been investigating folklore and source study all his life and has become an exceptional and unsurpassed authority in the field of artistic processing of folk art. The literary and scientific heritage left by the outstanding scientist-armenologist and folklore collector Garegin Srvandztyan has always been within Tumanyan’s scientific and artistic interests. On the basis of Srvandztyan’s fairy tales and collections of folk songs, dozens of the poet’s works were written. Noteworthy are the differences between the folk versions recorded by Srvandztyan and the poet’s artistic adaptations. While working on the poem “Sasuntsi David”, Tumanyan used six of the sixteen narrations of the epic “SasnaTsrer” known to him, including the first narration of the epic “Sasuntsi David or the door of Mher”, identified and recorded by Srvandztyan.