www.aravot.am inquired of Edvard Militonyan, the head of the printing agency, Ministry of Culture, what the reason for, in Davit Gasparyan’s definition, prohibiting The Book of Remnants of the expert in Charents Studies was.
“What prohibition, the literary critic should choose the words correctly…. Charents has descendants and the descendants have complained. After all, it is not a prohibition, a part of the copies are given to the museum, according to Charents’s will, if he [Davit Gasparyan, ed.] says such things, he will be answered accordingly, he should have shame. He has merely discredited Charents,” Mr. Militonyan said.
He also stated, “Charents wrote some poems, which are not for publishing and are entitled Notice, but Davit Gasparyan has turned Notice into Nation and has published the poems. So he has violated Poet Charents’s copyright and besmirched his memory.” Militonyan communicated to www.aravot.am that Charents’s descendants claimed that Davit Gasparyan had offended great writers Isahakyan, Gevorg Emin and others in the introduction of the
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book and had said things, the right to which he didn’t have, “Who is Davit Gasparyan to set himself above Charents and ostensibly do a favor to Charents. The poet’s family is offended. He ostensibly tried to rescue Charents from homosexuality or I don’t know what, but has done things that are more disgraceful …. By the way, having so many books, he asks where books are sold. This is the question….”
Gohar HAKOBYAN
