доктор филологических наук литературовед, критик, независимый исследователь
0019, респ. Армения, г. Ереван, пр-т Маршала Баграмяна, д. 3
Doctor of Philology literary critic, independent researcher
3 Marshal Bagramyan Av., Yerevan, 0019, Republic of Armenia
Настоящее эссе посвящено памяти выдающегося исследователя творчества Достоевского К. Степаняна. Т. Геворкян, связанная с ним полувековой дружбой, вспоминает об их общем ереванском студенчестве; опираясь на длившуюся до последних дней К. Степаняна переписку, рассказывает о московских десятилетиях его жизни, отданных неустанному научному, литературно-критическому, редакционно-редакторскому труду; воссоздает незабываемый образ человека и ученого.
The essay is devoted to the memory of the critic, philologist and Dostoevsky scholar Karen Stepanyan. His long-time friend T. Gevorkyan carefully reconstructs their encounters as well as episodes of Stepanyan’s personal and scholarly biography: from their first meeting as first-year philology students of Yerevan university to their city walks in Moscow in the 2000s; from Stepanyan’s early student papers and essays on theatre to his later books – To Realize and to Say: ‘Realism in the Highest Sense’ as Dostoevsky’s Creative Method [ Soznat i skazat: ‘Realizm v vysshem smysle’ kak tvorcheskiy metod F. M. Dostoevskogo ] (2005), The Visitation and Dialogue in Dostoevsky’s Novels [ Yavlenie i dialog v romanakh F. M. Dostoevskogo ] (2010), and Dostoevsky and Cervantes [ Dostoevsky i Servantes ] (2013), and to the publication of the almanac Dostoevsky and World Culture [ Dostoevsky i mirovaya kultura ]. While Gevorkyan devotes plenty of attention to Stepanyan’s scholarly legacy and carefully maps its milestones, her essay primarily serves to portray his persona, that of a close and untimely departed friend.
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest present.