Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Haigazian: Prof. Marc Nichanian lectures on Hagop Oshagan

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Haigazian: Prof. Marc Nichanian lectures on Hagop Oshagan

    PRESS RELEASE
    Haigazian University
    Mira Yardemian, Public Relations Director
    Mexique Street, Kantari, Beirut
    P.O.Box. 11-1748
    Riad El Solh 1107 2090
    Tel: 01-353010/1/2
    01-349230/1





    Professor Marc Nichanian lectures on: "Hagop Oshagan in the Tchanghere
    Prison"


    Beirut, March 18, 2008- Renowned Professor Marc Nichanian, delivered his
    second public lecture entitled, "Hagop Oshagan in the Prison of
    Tchangere," on March 12, in Haigazian University Auditorium, among a
    capacity audience of Armenian intel-lec-tuals, writers, faculty,
    staff and students.

    Dr. Nichanian, who is currently a visiting professor in the Armenian
    Studies Depart-ment, presented his lecture as being an echo of the
    questions raised in his most recent French volume, Le Roman de la
    Catastrophe, to be published in 2008 by the publish-ing house
    MétisPresse in Geneva.

    The event opened with the welcoming words of the University's Public
    Relations Dir-ec-tor, Mira Yardemian, who briefly introduced the
    educational and teaching back-ground of the guest speaker Marc
    Nichanian, in addition to naming his various pub-lica-tions in
    French, English and Armenian languages.

    The topic of Marc Nichanian's lecture was the unwritten part of
    Oshagan's novel Mnasortats, of which only the first two parts have been
    published. As it is well known, Oshagan was un-able to write the third
    part of the novel, in which he purported to "approach the Catastrophe."

    After presenting Oshagan's biography and describing the general features
    of his novelistic output, Marc Nichanian reviewed the reasons given by
    Oshagan for this failure and proposed a reading of the scarce passages
    (spread in Panorama of Western-Armenian literature), where Oshagan gives
    an idea of what he intended to do in this third part of the novel. One
    of these passages was supposed to give an account of the "last" night of
    the Armenian intellectuals, these "princes of the spirit," in Tchangere.
    The latter is the ill-famed place in Turkey where most of the arrested
    Ar-men-ian intellectuals during the round-up of April 24 were
    deported. Very few survived. Of course, Hagop Oshagan was not arrested
    on April 24 and has never been in Tchangere. In this respect, the
    audience was very curiously listening to Nichanian, in order to decode
    the mystery of Hagop Oshagan's sojourn in the "Prison of Tchangere."
Working...
X