The typology or character and context in Hrant Matevosyan’s Prose

In the monograph, the characteristic aspects of Hrant Matevosyan’s work are analyzed via application of structural and typological principles of chronotope, local and universal inclusions of the character, contemplative-metaphorical and epic combinations of the writer’s style. The writer’s historical philosophy is presented in the intertemporal movement of the hero, when the man of modern rural world summarizes national and universal qualities in himself, with artistic reflections of the relationship between natural and civilized, imperialism and locality, strength and weakness, the private and the general, and related to this, the issues of state consciousness (“Metsamor”, “Chezok Goti (Neutral Zone)”, “Ashnan Arev (Autumn Sun)”, etc.). These and the issues of progress, science and art, as well as the preservation of human nature in their developments are examined in the image relation within the environment of the big city, the Moscow Cinema House (“Khumhar”) or within the Armenian mountains and monasteries (“Haghartsin”). In a typological structure, the characters are viewed through opposing perceptions of the truth of nature and the distortions of civilization. It is embodied by the dramatic desire to preserve the divine qualities of being a lord-creator in a person (“Tere (“The Lord”)”, “Takhe (“The Throne”)”, the result of which is also the alienation and isolation of the character, sometimes an unspecified escape. These typological layers of contrasts and harmonies are beautifully completed with the polyphony characteristic of Matevosyan’s style (from “Menk enk mer sarery (“We are our mountains” to “Tashkend”), when the equal freedom of writer-character-reader fully determines the universal value of true fine art.