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The Candidate - A Novel (Paperback)
Zareh Vorpouni; Translated by Jennifer Manoukian, Ishkhan Jinbashian; Afterword by Marc Nichanian
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R522
Discovery Miles 5 220
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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 cafés 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.
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