KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

The Chair of Foreign Literature of Armenian State Pedagogical University has been organizing interuniversity scientific and practical conferences since 2007, with the main emphasis on the life and activity of the classics of world literature, common problems and challenges of translation and literary ties. Results of scientific studies, new views and approaches are presented during each conference.

The conference was held for the tenth time this year. In their reports, Ruzan Tadevosyan, Head of the Chair of Foreign Literature, Professor and Doctor of Philology, Inna Sarkisyan, Associate Professor and Candidate of Science (Philology), Gayane Vardazaryan, Assistant lecturer at the Chair of TV and Radio Journalism of the Faculty of Culture, and MA students of the Department of Foreign Literature focused on the translation of works of Russian writers Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Yesenin and many others.

The speakers referred to the problems of translation emphasizing preservation of ideological, artistic, image and structural integrity of the original texts.
Likewise, reference was made to unnecessary interventions and distortion of the original text.

Ani Sahakyan, Associate Professor of the Chair of Romance and Germanic languages and Candidate of Science (Philology), dedicated her report to Jorge Icaza's novels and “the novel of the land,” one of the brightest phenomena in the Latin American literature.

Kristine Bejanyan, Associate Professor of the Chair of Foreign Literature, spoke about the forgotten but at the same time talented poet of the Silver Age of the Russian Literature, Wilhelm Sorgenfrei, and his relations with Alexander Blok, while Karine Gulanyan, Associate Professor at the Chair of World Literature of Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences, presented in detail “The Collector”, a novel by English writer John Fowles.

The participants of the conference listened to the speakers with great interest, addressed questions to them and presented their opinions. This was followed by a heated discussion.

The materials of the conference are also included in the collections of scientific works. Ten collections have been published to this date. Two of them were dedicated to Leo Tolstoy (2012) and Mikhail Lermontov (2014).