About the book: year / GRIGOR NAREKSKY (Narekatsi), monk (951-1003), Armenian poet, mystic philosopher and theologian. Genus. in the writer's family. He spent almost his entire life in the monastery of Narek, where he taught at a monastery school. The author is mystical. interpretations on the Song of Songs (977) and numerous. poetic works (including “Doxology to the Apostles”). Narekatsi’s poetry is deeply “biblical”, permeated with images, themes and sacred realities. history. At the same time, it is distinguished by its intimate, personal character. In the “Book of Sorrowful Hymns” (1002), as in the “Great Canon” of *Andrew of Crete, the events and persons of both Testaments serve as a starting point for thinking about life, about the imperfection and sinfulness of man. This is a confidential conversation that a soul, filled with repentance and a thirst for purity, conducts with God. The lyric-mystical poem “The Book of Sorrowful Songs” (first published in 1673 in Marseille), translated into many languages ​​of the world, played a significant role in the development of Armenian literary language.