{"id":15467,"date":"2014-08-10T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=15467"},"modified":"2014-08-10T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:31:24","slug":"vahe-vahian-great-armenian-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=15467","title":{"rendered":"Vah\u0569\u0083\u0539.-Vahian, Great Armenian Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Blog of Classical Armenian Poetic Beauty<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Edwina Charles, BA <\/em>(Lon), BSc<\/em> (Hons<\/em>)(OU)<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Mrs. Phaedra Behrent<\/strong> is a woman-poet, from a British sea-town \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c Margate<\/em> \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c made famous by William Turner, according to John Ruskin, the greatest English painter (of his time, in Ruskin\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s mind meaning of course \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093of all time\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d). Mrs. Behrent, with a savvy initiative has created and just launched a most stunningly beautiful Blog-site http:\/\/vahe-vahian-poet.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/strong>\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 dedicated to a great modern Armenian poet of the Western Armenian literary tongue \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c Vah<\/strong>\u0569\u0083\u0539.<\/strong>-Vahian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The latter was a survivor of the most horrendous genocide of the Armenians by the Young Turks<\/em> perpetrated in 1915 \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c the first of its kind launching the First World War \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c and had ended up in Beirut, the vibrant capital city of the beautiful Lebanon, frequently referred to as \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093the Switzerland of the Middle East\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/em>, but as Professor Pilikian (who grew up there in the sixties) puts it,<\/p>\n

\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Converted into a … brothel, by and for the Saudi Arabian Sheikhs \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c hypocrites, who run to the mountains of Lebanon to guzzle alcohol, as endless as their petrol … guzzled in turn by their American slave-masters\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d.<\/p>\n

Vah\u0569\u0083\u0539.-Vahian, tasting poverty, and through sheer hard-work turns himself into one of the great poets of Western Armenian literature. Unfortunately, unbearable tragedies strike him. As if the genocide by the Turkish beasts were not enough, Vah\u0569\u0083\u0539.-Vahian loses his beautiful wife, and then their second son to a fatal car crash in Dubai. Against all the odds, the last tragedy renders him even a greater poet … he conceives and publishes a unique book in world-literature; a father\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s unbearable grief and lamentation for his son. And herein lies the second most powerful feature of Mrs. Behrent\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Blog<\/em> \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c inspired by the most learned intellectual of the Armenian Diaspora (with University Degrees in English Literature, Social Anthropology, Economics<\/em>, from Universities in the Lebanon, Germany, and Britain) Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s translation and exegesis of Vah\u0569\u0083\u0539.-Vahian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s work, Mrs. Behrent has written a huge commentary with the clever ironic little title of a Brief Comment<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Mrs Behrent is entirely right to relate to the grand theme of Love propagated by Professor Pilikian as the grand theme of Vah\u0569\u0083\u0539.-Vahian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s poem. Her views are a tad naive and rosy-tinted, with US New Age<\/em> hippy sweetness \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c go out and enjoy the sunshine! If you could find it of course in cold Britain \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c but strangely Mrs. Behrent\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s heart-warming optimism works mental miracles as a total contrast to Professor Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s powerful, mind-blowing socio-political ideas.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Behrent escapes personal controversy shrewdly by publishing directly citations\/gems from the Professor\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s intellectual treasure-house. Upon the basis of this Blog alone, one can confidently consider the Professor to be one of the great thinkers of our time, Karl Marx & Sigmund Freud in one \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c Pilikian is definitely the most inventive and innovative of the lot, always evidence-led even in a most boring field of study such as Theology; the Professor argues very convincingly that the Pre-Socratic philosophers were a great source of influence in the construction of the Christian dogma<\/strong>. This idea (as all of the Professor\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s radically new ideas) is worth a whole PhD thesis!<\/p>\n

A Polymath, by definition an expert in many fields of knowledge, Professor Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s incredible discovery of Picasso\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s famous outraged horse in Guernica<\/em><\/strong>, the most powerful anti-war painting in Art-history, found in a Lady Elizabeth\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s 19th<\/sup> c. anti-war Painting, is an unexpected major art-archaeological find<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Finally, the most extraordinary paradigmatic shift yet affected by Professor Pilikian in the context of world-wars (in plural) <\/strong>is the following; Granted that thenotion is common (first propagated by the gay Bloomsbury set) that the 2nd<\/sup> World War happened because the victors of the First were too harsh with the instigators (the German Kaiser and his \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009cBritish\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7-imperialist set), the Professor argues that in fact the Germans were not punished enough<\/strong> for a deed that cost the world 20 million dead, and equal numbers of the maimed. Professor Pilikian offers the outstanding concept that actually there only was a single World War<\/strong>, the First stretched into the Second, extended further into the Korean War … in terms of statistical numbers, perhaps 200 million people were killed as a result of idiots, like hyenas tearing nations apart for almost half a century of the 20th<\/sup> …<\/p>\n

According to the Professor, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093the Military, were they not such butchers, are always ridiculously hilarious with their stiff rhythmic walking in North Korea, and oven-heat producing tall fur hats of the daily British Changing of the Guard<\/em>s \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c we laugh at the Koreans, but tourists take selfies with the equally ridiculous Brits!\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 Alas, this is the way of the world \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c one is loved and the other is hated precisely for the same reason…\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Behrent has most kindly dedicated her Blog to several distinguished Editors of multilingual Armenian websites, Messrs Garabed Hakopian (from Sweden), Yervand Khosrofian (from Germany), Simon Aynedjian (from Cyprus), Dikran Aprahamian & Jerry Tutunijian (from Canada), and the Milton Keynes poet Richard Skellington, founder-Editor of Britain\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Open University<\/em> Forum on the Net.<\/p>\n

What is even more extraordinary, is Mrs. Behrent\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s next sweetest thought \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009c she has dedicated her Blog to the global Readers, every one of them, of those websites <\/strong>where they had read Professor Pilikian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s published translation of Vah\u0569\u0083\u0539.-Vahian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s unique world-masterpiece.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 She calls upon them to re-appear and inscribe their names on her Blog as a Memorial Stele honouring the great Armenian poet himself, Vah\u0569\u0083\u0539.-Vahian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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