THE CHARACTER OF ARSHILE GORKY (VOSTANIK ADOYAN) IN THE FICTION SET OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL

The purpose of the article is to present the image of Arshile Gorky as the main character of the biographical novel by the Armenian diaspora writer S. Vahagn’s “Arshile Korki” (within the framework of the writer’s favorite literary method). This is realism, understood in a new way, guided by which the author created an artistic image of the American artist of Armenian origin Arshile Gorky — Vostanik Adoyan (1902-1948), a representative of the abstract expressionist movement, who received international recognition among experts. S. Vahagn is considered to be one of the main figures in the history of the Armenian diasporan literature (G.Sevan). Depicting the human and creative fate of A. Gorky in the biographical novel, the author, on the one hand, showed the tragic consequences of the Genocide of Western Armenians in 1915 through those who survived the massacre and settled in the United States, and revealed the national and individual self-affirmation of the famous artist in a foreign environment on the other hand, the basis for the manifestation of original creative abilities. In this process, perhaps, one can emphasize the factor of the anthropological Armenoid type of the Armenian personality as a whole, which is capable of uniquely withstanding trials. The main task of S. Vahagn was to reveal the peculiarities of the manifestation of the Armenian essence. S. Vahagn’s novel “Arshile Gorky” is a valuable achievement not only in the writer’s work, but also in the field of the Armenian diaspora and the modern Armenian biographical novel in general.