ТHE UNSMILING MAN – YERVANT ODIAN (ОN THE 150 TH ANNIVERSARY)

Abstract

The present article, written on the occasion of the 150 th anniversary of one of the greatest
figures of Armenian literature Yervant Odian, presents the life of the satirist and most of his
literary works. In the article, Odian is portrayed as a person, artist, and esthetician. Many of
Odian's works are written on documentary grounds and in this regard are historical documents
and have historical value. In his works, Odian equally taunts party and non-party figures,
national leaders, false revolutionaries, and merchants. Focusing people's attention on the
failures and tragedies of the past Odiana raises the motives for returning to life. In those bloody
years of loss, Odian's literature made his people, who were in the clutches of death, laugh. His
literature was a word of truth and a deliberate mockery intended to awaken the hopeless souls,
to rouse from sleep the dedicated ones and to drive the Armenian man to self-recognition.