YEREVAN, August 11 (Noyan Tapan). The first issue of the "Literary Criticism" periodical was released upon the initiative of the Institute of Literary Criticism after M. Abeghian and the Writers' Union of Armenia. Literary critic Azat Yeghiazarian, editor-in-chief of the periodical, told NT's correspondent that the issues of the history of the Armenian literature and the development of the modern literature, as well as theoretical problems will be covered in the magazine. According to Azat Yeghiazarian, the creative activities of a number of Western Armenian writers weren't sufficiently studied for some reason or other. "We are still far from the entire notion about the Western Armenian literature. One of the main tasks of the new periodical is to fill this gap," he mentioned. Articles on Hakob Oshakan, Byuzand Topalian, Andranik Tsarukian, Kostan Zarian and many other Western Armenian writers have already been published in the first issue of the magazine. Azat Yeghiazarian mentioned that the magazine will also give its pages to young literary critics, as according to him, "they should continue, develop and deepen all the traditions that the Armenian literary criticism has, as well as should advance new ideas and approaches, being grounded on these traditions and achievements of the world literary criticism ideology." It should be mentioned that it is expected that the extracts from the "White Book" of Avetik Isahakian dedicated to the Armenian Genocide, some letters of Hakob Oshakan, as well as the memoirs of Maro Alazan on Yeghishe Charents, Nairi Zarian and other writers will be published in the second issue of the "Literary Criticism Magazine".

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