AGHAYAN’S INTERPRETATION OF FOLKLORIC MOTIFS IN “AREGNAZAN OR MAGICAL WORLD”

Abstract

The article examines Ghazaros Aghayan’s fairy tale “Aregnazan or Magical World”, in
which Aghayan’s approach to folkloric motives provides a chance for a comprehensive study.
This literary genre became a means of reproducing the reality for the writer, who is highly
valued in educational terms. For Aregnazan the temptation to find “the water of immortality”
in this fairy tale becomes a way of ultimate transformation leading to the distraction of evil
forces