Charents’ works should be published without mistakes and blemishes, expert says

PanARMENIAN.Net - Unreleased works of Armenian writer and poet Yeghishe Charents had been published, yet did not correspond accurately with the original version.

“In September 2010, I familiarized myself with Charents’ manuscripts published by Harvard Professor James Russell. The work published was rather distorted and contained some gross mistakes,” a writer, Charents expert David Gasparyan told a news conference.

“In September 2008, the manuscripts were bought out by the Museum of Literature and Art for AMD 6,5 million. Part of them was kept by translator Artashes Emin who asked AMD 8 million for all the manuscripts. The part of manuscripts I had a chance to see contains 11 poems, a great number of verses, mainly covering the 1935-37 time span,” Gasparyan said.

As he noted, Charents’ works will probably be published next year. “We owe to the great writer to release every single one of his works without mistakes and blemishes,” Gasparyan stated.