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    SYRIAN AUTHOR ADONIS IS CHARMED BY YEREVAN

    10:19, 30 April, 2013

    YEREVAN, APRIL 30, ARMENPRESS. Renowned Syrian author Adonis (Ali
    Ahmed Sayeed) paid a visit to Armenia to take part in the final events
    held within the framework of "Yerevan World Book Capital" program.

    Poetry is not the sole occupation of the Syrian writer. Adonis is also
    known as an expert in literature, theorist, critic, translator, and
    lecturer. His works have been translated into over 20 languages of the
    world. Adonis authored about 20 poetic collected works and 15 volumes
    on theory and literary criticism. "Armenpress" had an opportunity to
    take walk with Adonis on the streets of Yerevan and ask him a number
    of questions.

    - Mr. Adonis, this is Your first visit to Armenia. What impressions do You have?

    - Yes, You're right. This is my first visit to Armenia and frankly
    speaking I am very impressed. You have a very beautiful city with
    wonderful architecture. Notwithstanding, I am sure that I must stay
    here for a long time to have complete impressions. So that I could
    have a chance to meet more people, communicate with poets and
    intellectuals, exchange opinions with them. I am hopeful that my next
    visit will last much longer. I guess I shall come back in 3-4 months.

    - Dual contradictions are prevailing in Your art; life-death,
    paradise-hell etc. Is this one of the main peculiarities of Your style
    or this is a dictate of life?

    - Yes, You are not mistaken. That tendency is a result of the bitter
    temptations I had to face with. It is a crystallized experience. One
    cannot understand the light, if he has not seen night. Life and death
    are different sides of existence. In order to understand love, you
    must experience hatred. These opposites of life are among the best
    means to realize the essence of existence.

    - You visited a number of places in Armenia and You also paid a visit
    to the Tzitzernakaberd Hill on April 24. What did You feel there?

    - First of all I had an impression that everybody starting from the
    elders to the youth, from the President to a child remains loyal to
    the vow and precept of the martyrs. This is a significant indicator of
    the fact that the Armenian people deserve the right to live and create
    in this land. Despite all the calamitis and difficulties the Armenians
    is much fuller of life now, than they ever were. And this people can
    live not only with the past alone, but the present and future as well.

    (THE FULL VERSION OF THE INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE IN ARMENIAN)

    Interview by Arusik Zakharyan

    Translation by writer and translator Sargis Kirakosyan

    Photos by Samvel Berkibekyan

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