Gurgen Khanjyan’s novelistic prose, emerging at the beginning of the 21st century, not only marks a period of artistic ascent in Armenian fiction, but also shapes new perceptions of worldview and poetics. The following novels being the evidence to it: No News 2006, Enoch’s Eye 2012, and, especially, Give Me Your Hand, Little One 2017, which toher constitute integral parts of a thematic and artistic whole. It is precisely within this thematic and worldview-based unity that the literary-historical significance of Khanjyan’s novels, as well as the novelty of their worldview and poetics, are examined.The literary value of Gurgen Khanjyan’s novel, analytically and considered in its entirety, becomes a subject of examination for the first time —which is an innovation in our literary studies in its own right.

KeywordsGurgen Khanjyan Armenian prose criticism early 21st century worldview poetics inner world.