Poetry
Սրտաբաց զրույց
Not translated into English
Silva Kaputikyan · 1955
Synopsis
A collection of one hundred and twenty-four pages, in which the two themes that dominate the poet's whole work recur, the homeland and love. To convey the surge of a feeling, she takes up an image from medieval Armenian folk songs: a pure spring welling up at the foot of the mountain, which flows down striking against stones and rocks.
Context
The collection appeared in Yerevan in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. Armenian literary histories see in it the beginning of a new period in the work, after the research books of the late forties and the collection awarded a prize in 1952; it opens a series continued by the collections of 1957 and 1961, in which the poet returns to the fate of the Armenian people, its trials and its future.
Who it is for
A short collection, in simple language made to be spoken, in Eastern Armenian. Nothing in it requires prior knowledge.
Prizes and reception
Counted by Armenian critics among the achievements of Armenian poetry of its time, along with the two collections that follow it.