The Candidate by Vorpouni, Zareh
The Candidate by Vorpouni, Zareh

The Candidate

The Candidate is one of the most masterful, psychologically penetrating novels in Armenian diaspora literature. Published in...
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Author: Zareh Vorpouni
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Language: English
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The Candidate by Vorpouni, Zareh

The Candidate

CHF 39.29
The Candidate by Vorpouni, Zareh

The Candidate

CHF 39.29
Author: Zareh Vorpouni
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 Vahakn's body on the floor of the apartment they share. In a fragmentary way, Minas tells of his meeting Vahakn in the caf s of the Latin Quarter; the friendship that joins them; their conversations with Ziya, a Turkish student in Paris; Vahakn's murder of Ziya; and Vahakn's suicide. At the core of the novel is the note Vahakn leaves Minas to explain the enigma of Ziya's murder and his own suicide. The letter recounts Vahakn's and his mother's deportation from their village in the Ottoman Empire; his mother's death and Vahakn's 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.

Author: Zareh Vorpouni
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 10/27/2016
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.06w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780815634683

About the Author

Zareh Vorpouni (1902-1980) was a prominent Armenian writer. He is the author of numerous
novels and short story collections, including The Persecuted, a cycle of four novels published
between 1929 and 1974: The Attempt, The Candidate, Asphalt, and A Regular Day. This is the first of his novels to be translated into English.

Jennifer Manoukian is a translator of Western Armenian literature, most recently The Gardens
of Silihdar by Zabel Yessayan.

Ishkhan Jinbashian is the translator of numerous books, including Passage through Hell and The Fatal Night.
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