Միջտեքստայնությունը Համբարձում Կարյանի «Գաղտնիք սիրահարաց կամ Արարատայ այցելուն» վեպում

<jats:p>The article is dedicated to the analysis of one of the forgotten episodes of Western Armenian literature – the work of Hambardzum Karian, “The Secret of the Lovers, or Visitor to Ararat”. The novel, published in the 1870s, represents an unusual phenomenon against the background of the literary trends of that period, but so far has not received due attention and has been studied primarily within the context of the Western Armenian literary tradition. Thus, this article represents the first attempt to analyze this material. As a theoretical foundation, the historical-comparative and structural methods were used, with particular emphasis on the theory of intertextuality – both in its broad (J. Kristeva) and narrow (G. Genette) understandings. The first chapter examines the relationship between text and paratext, direct quotations, allusions, and references to Armenian and world literature (Raphael Patkanyan, Jean de La Bruyère, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and others). The second chapter, relying on the logic of the hypertext-hypotext relationship, focuses on the connection between the novel and Movses Khorenatsi’s work “History of Armenia”. Khorenatsi’s history serves as the foundation for constructing the magical world of Karian’s novel, within which the author fills the narrative both with character images and a multilayered reconstruction of the past – historical, political, social, and cultural.</jats:p>