Of prediction in Ghazaros Achayan’s novel “Two sisters” and his folklore process
Dreams and visions have their unique place in the novel “Two Sisters” and folklore processes by one of the important authors of Armenian classical literature – Ghazaros Aghayan. The author often fills his stories with various dream allegories and tricks, thus, on one hand, sharpening the reader’s interest, adding mystery to the plot, and giving information about future developments and, on the other hand, opening the doors to the dreamland. This trick allows the heroes to move freely beyond the space-time boundaries in a world where life does not follow any set laws. The topic of the given study is the examination and interpretation of the boundaries of real and imaginary in the works by Ghazaros Aghayan.
The choice of Aghayan’s works is not accidental, as his legacy is distinguished by authorial and artistic tricks, realistic, magical, and allegorical images, etc. Aghayan’s literary works allow us to form a deep comprehension of the manifestations of boundaries between the real and imaginary within the framework of the artistic text. The aim of the study is to examine the boundaries of the real and imaginary in Aghayan’s novel “Two Sisters” and folklore processes.
The objective of the study is to reveal what relationship the dream, as a predicative trick of plot, a manifestation of the imaginary and literary device, has with the real world. The objective of the study also is to examine through which philosophical manifestations it reveals the psychology of the characters of Aghayan’s above-mentioned novel and fairy tales and by what means the author prepares the reader for the further developments in the plot of the given works.
The modernity of the study is due to its interdisciplinarity: it was carried out as a result of interpretive examination processes of different disciplines, namely, literary studies, philosophy, and psychology. The scientific novelty of the study is that in Aghayan’s novel “Two Sisters” and folklore processes the dream is considered as a special structural element of the work, which enriches the plot with mystery, as well as provides an opportunity to analyze and reveal the reflections of dream in folklore notions and Armenian culture. Structural, hermeneutic, meta-critical, and historical-comparative methods were used.