Armenia | Armenian | Short Fiction
August, 2018Susanna Harutyunyan began her literary career when the Soviet Union was collapsing. She belongs to the generation of writers who were tasked with the critical and inevitable role of recording the fall of the Soviet Union, the transition period, and post-Soviet afterlife. She is best known for her short stories, some humorous, others verging on the macabre and a special kind of ruthlessness, reminiscent of the notable Soviet writer Vsevolod Ivanov. The story featured here (Original title: "Aysteghov antsel e astvatse") was first published in a collection titled Zharangabar pokhantsvogh garun ("Hereditary Spring") in 2007.
- Shushan Avagyan
Armenia | Armenian | Personal Essay
September, 2013"The Man" is a short autobiographical sketch set in Paris, in 1896, during Zabel Yesayan's second year of study at the Sorbonne. It was published in 1905 in the Armenian literary magazine Masis as a response to a text examining the phenomenon of terror from an aesthetic point of view. The sketch explores the psychological effects of alienation and isolation of women as foreigners in a Parisian dormitory.
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