Arşavir Acterian sau autonegarea ca mecanism de funcţionare a jurnalului
Arşavir Acterian or self-negation as functional mechanism for the diary

Summary/Abstract: Psychologically speaking, the diary plays many roles in the life of its author. The diary is first and foremost the saviour of the fleeting moment, yet it can at the same time become the saviour of the author. If for certain diarists the diary meant capturing this ephemeral moment, a barrier against oblivion, for others it became a venting instrument and a silent receptor of all the problems the diarist was facing. At the same time, for certain famous writers, the diary was the laboratory of their great fiction work. For Arşavir Acterian the diary was meant to reclaim one’s own life, as Bedros Horasangian puts it in the preface of Arşavir Acterian’s diary. The latter achieves exactly what it is meant to achieve: namely to be an account of an individual’s existence, as well as of the little inferno accompanying him/her. This article tracks this little inferno and the means through which it is recorded in the diary, as well as the author’s level of sincerity in his notes.

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