The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

[TomServo]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

May I recommend...

Scanned it myself.

[TomServo]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

I vote for Ընկեր Փանջունի because of the illustrations by Alexander Saroukhan!

[yerazhishda]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

I would also like to read Ընկեր Փանչունի for that very same reason! The illustrations in it are հրասքանչ!

But seriously, I do think it would be a good book to start off with. Even if no one wants to participate, I may just go ahead and add my own commentary and you peons can add your two cents.

[Federate]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

That scan reminds me of the Արդի Հայ Գրականութիւն series of short story/poetry anthologies we had to read in Armenian school. A morbid inside joke most students would pick up on (after reading those short biographies) was that those Armenian writers who didn't perish during the genocide died from թոքախտ (tuberculosis).

Digitizing the books for personal use is a good idea -- mine are falling apart.

Wow, and here I was thinking all this time that the morbid inside joke about death by tuberculosis was only caught on in my Armenian classrooms! Off the top of my head, I can think of Bedros Tourian, Vahan Derian, Misak Medzarents, Mikael Nalbandian and i'm sure many others that I missed that perished from tuberculosis. Perhaps Bedros Tourian's death is the most tragic, died at such a young age. Drdunchk by him is epic, if I find it i'll scan it and post it here.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

A morbid inside joke most students would pick up on (after reading those short biographies) was that those Armenian writers who didn't perish during the genocide died from թոքախտ (tuberculosis).

Digitizing the books for personal use is a good idea -- mine are falling apart.

In the 19th Century, in any country, a writer wasn't considered to be a real writer unless he/she was dying of consumption!

Of course the explanation probably is that writing was a profession that did not need heavy physical labour and that could be pursued from one's sickbed, or even from one's deathbed.

From wikipedia:

TB was romanticized in the nineteenth century. Many people believed TB produced feelings of euphoria referred to as Spes phthisica ("hope of the consumptive"). It was believed that TB sufferers who were artists had bursts of creativity as the disease progressed. It was also believed that TB sufferers acquired a final burst of energy just before they died that made women more beautiful and men more creative.

[gkv]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

Drdunchk by him is epic, if I find it i'll scan it and post it here.

The english translation is available here: http://www.armenianhouse.org/blackwe...ourian.html#11
along with other poems.

The armenian can be found on hy.wikisource.org

http://hy.wikisource.org/wiki/%D5%8F%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%BB%D6%84

http://hy.wikisource.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%B3%D5%A1%D5%AF

[Federate]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

The english translation is available here: http://www.armenianhouse.org/blackwe...ourian.html#11
along with other poems.

The armenian can be found on hy.wikisource.org

http://hy.wikisource.org/wiki/%D5%8F%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%BB%D6%84

http://hy.wikisource.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%B3%D5%A1%D5%AF

Great! Thanks dude. I love ldjag ))

[gkv]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

[Christina]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

I wrote a poem in metaphors of an important Armenian event and I have a unique challenge how to place it.

Any suggestions?

[bell-the-cat]

Re: The Modern Armenian Literature Thread - Արդի Հայ Գրականութեան Ընթերցումն

I wrote a poem in metaphors of an important Armenian event and I have a unique challenge how to place it.

Any suggestions?

Maybe http://www.groong.com/tlg/index.html