STEPAN ALAJAJYAN’S NOVEL “UNHEALED WOUND” AS A DOCUMENT OF HISTORICAL AND ARTISTIC VALUE

Abstract

The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the national and social events, political
and geopolitical movements of the beginning of the XX century besed on Stepan Alajajyan’s
three-volume novel “Unhealed Wound” which is more than 1,500 pages long. Depicting the
construction of the Berlin-Bosporus-Baghdad railway along with the heroic self-defense battle
fought by Fnditchak, one of the settlements of Cilicia, the novel touches upon various military,
political, national and human realities through artistic and analytical generalizations, which are
still very actual today and give food for thought.