FOR A MASS READER? NARINE ABGARYAN
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2018-2-66-67
Abstract
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.
About the Author
M. Kulgavchuk
Russian Language and Culture Institute of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Marina Viktorovna Kulgavchuk, Candidate of Philology, lecturer
Academic interests include the contemporary literary process and perception problems of Russian literature in foreign cultures. Author of philological and culturological articles, co-author of several Russian textbooks for foreign students.
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Kulgavchuk M. FOR A MASS READER? NARINE ABGARYAN. Voprosy literatury. 2018;(2):66-76. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2018-2-66-67
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