Title The candidate : a novel / Zareh Vorpouni ; translated from the Western Armenian by Jennifer Manoukian and Ishkhan Jinbashian

Edition First edition Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Middle East literature in translation Middle East literature in translation. Contents C1; Vorpouni Final; bc1 Summary The Candidate is one of the most masterful, psychologically penetrating novels in Armenian diaspora literature. Published in 1967 at a time of political awakening among the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide, the novel explores themes of trauma, forgiveness, reconciliation, friendship, and sacrifice, and examines the relationship between victim and perpetrator.The book opens in 1927 in Paris after Minas has found his friend Vahakns body on the floor of the apartment they share. In a fragmentary way, Minas tells of his meeting Vahakn in the cafés of the Latin Quarter; the friendship that joins them; their conversations with Ziya, a Turkish student in Paris; Vahakns murder of Ziya; and Vahakns suicide. At the core of the novel is the note Vahakn leaves Minas to explain the enigma of Ziyas murder and his own suicide. The letter recounts Vahakns and his mothers deportation from their village in the Ottoman Empire; his mothers death and Vahakns adoption by a Turkish woman, Fatma, who rapes and abuses him; his feelings of alienation and self-estrangement in France; and his inability to adapt to life after trauma.Known for his innovation of the Western Armenian novel, Vorpouni challenges the narrative elements of the conventional novel by playing with subjectivity and linearity. His melding of contemporary French literary and intellectual currents produces a literary and cultural hybrid unique in Western Armenian literature Analysis Paris (France) Fiction Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Armenian Genocide survivors -- Psychology -- Fiction FICTION -- Psychological. FICTION -- General. Armenian massacres survivors -- Psychology Genre/Form novels. Psychological fiction Novels Fiction Novels. Psychological fiction. Fiction. Romans. Form Electronic book Author Manoukian, Jennifer, translator Chinpashean, Ishkhan, translator LC no. 2016028163 ISBN 9780815653790 0815653794

Other Titles Tegnatzun. English

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