She will write a tragedy or a recipe instead of her plays
This morning poet Violet Grigoryan joined Raffi Hovhannisyan’s hunger strike. She went on a one-day hunger strike. Violet said during a conversation with www.aravot.am that it was of symbolic nature. “You know, don’t you, how a real hunger strike ruins a man’s health? This is just a symbolic gesture. I don’t know whether I can do something more. Now I see that I feel bad even when it is one day. I don’t know whether I can do more or not. I now realize that it is a hard thing to do.” She said that she hadn’t even drunk a coffee and only hoped that she would endure at least one day. “There are many people who want to contribute somehow, but they don’t know how. Being on a hunger strike for a long time is a really hard thing.” Let us note that a few youths joined Raffi Hovhannisyan as early as in the first days of his hunger strike, but Raffi Hovhannisyan urged them not to damage their health and not to do that. He approached Violet Grigoryan and asked not to do that either, but given the fact that it was a one-day hunger strike, he agreed. Violet doesn’t know what the struggle will benefit from the hunger strike. “I respect his decisions and the whole political culture that he has adopted, his responsibility for that. It is a large amount of responsibility and self-sacrifice. In his case, the words ‘morality’ and ‘ethics’ enter politics again. People employ these means to change life, not political chess. This wish to change life, in the revolutionary sense, this self-sacrifice really brings all those concepts back to the political stage.” Anahit Bakhshyan, a member of the Heritage Party executive committee, said that in her opinion, society didn’t deserve this kind of self-sacrifice of Raffi Hovhannisyan. In response to our question whether she agreed, Violet Grigoryan said that the word “society” was abstract for her. “I know that there is much political cynicism in our country. I know that the government has contaminated people with that cynicism. Certainly, it depends on the man. After all that, seeing so many people who are not cynics, can struggle, we realize that we have society. The election alone showed that.” We inquired of Violet whether she was going to write some plays, poems about today’s situation. She replied: “I have a stomachache right now; I am in no mood for writing a play. If I write, it will be a tragedy or a recipe. I had better write afterwards.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
