Selected Literary Works

Selected Literary Works

Remarkable writers of the 20th century and their most famous works.

The literary paths taken by modern Armenian writers, and their literary achievements

  • Host - Ani Pashayan
Franz Kafka
21/06/2025

Franz Kafka

The broadcast is dedicated to major German-language writer Franz Kafka and particularly his novel "The Trial," on which about 6,000 literary articles have been written so far. Kafka, an adherent of modernism, added new expressive means to prose − with symbols and ideological saturation.

 

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Thomas Mann
11/06/2025

Thomas Mann

The broadcast is dedicated to German writer, novelist, essayist, literary critic, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann and particularly to his novel "The Magic Mountain." This work stands out with its deep philosophical analysis. The author of the novels "Buddenbrooks," "Doctor Faustus," and "Joseph and His Brothers" was deeply interested in people's national pain and fate, in all dangers threatening humanity, and in his own time.

 

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Rabindranath Tagore
04/06/2025

Rabindranath Tagore

The broadcast is dedicated to Indian writer, poet, public figure, art critic, artist, composer, playwright, Novel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore who was the first person to understand in India that art should be closely connected with people. Revealing the most important character features of Indian people and nailing his attention to pan-national issues, Tagore aspired to raise the ordinary human being, and to inspire his readers to have respect and love toward their nation. With this aim in mind, he sought for ways in his literary works, learned folk songs and dances, and thus skillfully used his nation's talents.

 

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Theodore Dreiser
28/05/2025

Theodore Dreiser

The broadcast is dedicated to the prominent representative of American literature Theodore Dreiser, who continued the literary traditions of Mark Twain, Frank Norris, and Henry Fuller. He wrote with great courage and ruthlessly against the false myth created about the United States. He gained great fame especially by his most famous novel — "An American Tragedy", by "The “Genius”," a novel about the fate of an artist and art, whose hero sells his talent, as well as by the "Trilogy of Desire," in which the main character considers the law of his desires as the most important thing.

 

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Ernest Hemingway
21/05/2025

Ernest Hemingway

The broadcast is dedicated to novelist, Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway and his famous novel “The Old Man and the Sea” published in 1952. It is a novel about the human being, life struggle, defeat and victory, a novel that influenced the best literatures of the world.

 

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Albert Camus
14/05/2025

Albert Camus

The broadcast is dedicated to Albert Camus, writer, playwright, essayist, philosopher (existentialist), Nobel Prize winner, who became famous especially for his novels "The Plague" and "The Stranger," where he depicted the reality of absurdity, evaluating the human being with his or her fate, disharmony, feelings, and tragicalness. In Camus's literary legacy, an important place is occupied by the essay "The Myth of Sisyphus," which, with its deep philosophical analyses and generalizations, is a new word in the 20th-century prose.

 

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David Herbert Lawrence
07/05/2025

David Herbert Lawrence

The broadcast is dedicated to English novelist and essayist David Herbert Lawrence who is distinguished especially for his novelties in literature. His greatest desire was to see the human being free and natural. The novels "Sons and Lovers," "The Rainbow," and "Women in Love" brought him a great fame. But the greatest success was his last but one novel — "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

 

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Thomas Eliot
30/04/2025

Thomas Eliot

The broadcast is dedicated to a bright representative of English modernism, poet, art critic, art historian, playwright and literary critic, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Eliot who created in a very hard period of the 20th century many valuable works: The Hollow Men, The Waste Land, The Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, etc. Among his theoretic writings, notable are the works The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, and On Poetry and Poets.

 

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William Faulkner
23/04/2025

William Faulkner

The broadcast is dedicated to American great writer and Nobel Prize laureate William Faulkner, especially his novel The Sound and the Fury, written in 1929. This was the author's favorite novel, which he described as his “most splendid failure.” Through the fall of the Compson family, the author expresses a deep sympathy for human pain and tragedy.

 

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Federico García Lorca
16/04/2025

Federico García Lorca

The broadcast is dedicated to Spanish writer, poet, playwright Federico García Lorca who created permanent literary values during his very short life. Especially with his Gypsy Ballads he developed the Spanish national poetry, while with his dramaturgical innovations he prompted the development of Spanish national theater.

 

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James Joyce
09/04/2025

James Joyce

The broadcast is dedicated to English writer James Joyce's literary activities and especially his famous novel "Ulysses" that brought worldwide fame to the author.

 

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Conversation with Margarita Vardanyan
02/04/2025

Conversation with Margarita Vardanyan

What does she as a pharmacist think about poetry, and how does she relate to literature and art? Her collection "A Handful of Stardust" presents modern reality and the woman in arts. In modern poetry, she especially distinguishes Avag Yepremyan, Eduard Harents...

 

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The Brazilian Prose of the 1920s-30s
26/03/2025

The Brazilian Prose of the 1920s-30s

The literature created in the 1920s-30s laid the groundwork for the rise of the modern Brazilian novel writing thanks to Lins do Rego, Queiroz, Ramos, Amado, and others. They realistically depicted the lives of laborers, their material and physical bereavements, the atmosphere in the plantations, and the riots of the exploited people...

 

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Conversation with Ashot Hovsepyan
19/03/2025

Conversation with Ashot Hovsepyan

The collection of prose writer and publicist Ashot Hovsepyan "Searching for the Last Year's Snow" fully reflects the 1990s, a hard period for Armenia that left a deep trace in the life of the country. The writer also predicted the vices of today's Armenian reality and brought a whole gallery of interesting characters to literature...

 

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Charles Aznavour
12/03/2025

Charles Aznavour

This episode is dedicated to the poet and writer Charles Aznavour, whose book "Aznavour by Aznavour" is still read with great interest.

 

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Hermann Hesse
05/03/2025

Hermann Hesse

The broadcast is dedicated to famous German writer Hermann Hesse's literary activities and especially to his well-known novel "Steppenwolf."

 

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Conversation with Hasmik Papian
26/02/2025

Conversation with Hasmik Papian

The great singer has a special attitude to the literary text, to literature. It was a great pleasure for her to read Kafka in German. She always has books by Hrant Matevosyan on her table. She also likes modern Armenian writers such as Alis Hovhannisyan, Hovhannes Yeranyan...

 

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Arthur Miller
19/02/2025

Arthur Miller

The outstanding American playwright and prose writer Arthur Miller showed through his plays the origins of the tragedy of the modern human, reaching great generalizations and thus recreating the faith of humans in the future.

 

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Alain Robbe-Grillet
12/02/2025

Alain Robbe-Grillet

The novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer, screenwriter and film director, ideologist of the New Novel concept, member of the French Academy, surprised many readers, but many also did not accept him. That's why there were always heated debates over his works...

 

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Conversation with Narine Avagyan
05/02/2025

Conversation with Narine Avagyan

What is the secret of a writer whose works have many readers? Both adults and children read her collections with love. But how are the sentences born, which after being written do not belong, in some sense, to the author anymore?

 

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