CONFUSION

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[05:44 pm] 26 July, 2007

There are intellectuals in the RA but there is no need for
intellectuals. These are the opinions of the RA actor Azat Gasparyan
and reciter Silva Yuzbashyan.

Azat Gasparyan commented on that point this way: "There is no necessity
of an intellectual in Armenia, since the intellectuals are poor,
while today everyone yearns for money and does not pay attention to
a scientist, an actor or a teacher".

He believes there are no readers today, not because bad works are
written, but because of the vast generation gap.

According to him, music and dance mingle with poetry.

There is no way of presenting poetry today. Silva Yuzbashyan agreed
and added that poetry should not be played. She also mentioned that
our new poets were deprived of their classical roots and were going
to the West.

She recalled her visit to Persia, where businessmen know poetry,
while our businessmen do not know any of Hovhannes Tumanyan’s works.