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Varujan Vosganian's new book tells about running sores and memories
12:50, 19 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS. The former Minister of Economy of
Romania, First Deputy Chairman of the Writers' Union of Romania
Varujan Vosganian published his new book titled "The Play of Hundred
Leaves and Other Stories" (Jocul celor o sutÄ? de frunze È'i alte
povestiri, Editura Polirom, 2013, Bucuresti).
As reports "Armenpress" there are six stories enclosed in the book.
The stories are dedicated to disagreement, quests, uncertainty, and
running sores.
Vosganian's "The book of whispers" was published in 2009 in Bucharest
and became the winner of the highest scores and won the most awards of
the publishing year. Just three months after the publication of the
novel, the Spanish Pre-Textos publishing house acquired the right to
publish it in Spanish from Romanian Polirom publishing house.
The Spanish version was published in the early 2011, by Joaquà - n
Garrigós' translation, and in August of the same year, it was released
in Argentina by the presence of the author and translator.
"The Book of Whispers" begins in a picturesque register, on a lane of
the Armenian quarter of FocÅ?ani in the 1950s, among the steam of
freshly roasted coffee and the scents of grandmother Armenuhi's
larder, among the old books and photographs of grandfather Garabet.
But the reader is not left to savour the intimacy of this hearth and
home and nor is he invited to chat with the merry folk who in
peacetime spin stories about Ara the Fair and Tigran the Great.
Varujan Vosganian's "old Armenians from childhood" have no delectable
tales to tell, but rather events that are thoroughly disturbing. In
narrating these events, they attempt to disburden themselves of a
trauma ` their own and that of their forbears.
The history of the 1915 genocide against the Armenians, the history of
the interminable convoys of those banished into the Circles of Death,
into the Deir ez Zor Desert, the secret history of Armenian
freemasonry in Romania, of General Dro's army, the history of the
Armenians who followed the path of exile in the Stalinist period ` all
these and many other biographically filtered histories are to be found
illustrated in the pages of this unsettling book.
The book caused so many troubles to the Turkish authorities, which
spare no effort to prevent its further translations and publications.
The Turkish Embassy to Romania sent a note of complaint to the
Romanian authorities, when a meeting dedicated to the book and its
author was organized in one of the country's museums.
Varujan Vosganian was born in Craiova on 25 July 1958. He spent his
childhood and adolescence in FocÅ?ani. He is a graduate of the Faculty
of Commerce of the Academy of Economic Studies and of the Faculty of
Mathematics of Bucharest University. He is a Doctor of Economics,
a founder of the Romanian Society for Economics, an International
Adviser to the European Union's Centre for Political Studies, based in
Brussels, and a member of the Young Politicians Club (London). He is
the Senator for Jassy and between 2006 and 2008 he was Minister of
Finance and the Economy. He is President of the Union of Armenians in
Romania and Vice President of the Romanian Writers' Union.
Besides various theoretical works, mainly on economic subjects, he has
published three volumes of poetry: Å?amanul albastru (The Blue
Shaman) (1994), Ochiul alb al reginei (The White Eye of the Queen)
(2001), and Iisus cu o mie de braţe (Jesus with a Thousand Arms)
(2004). His collection of novellas, Statuia comandorului (The Statue
of the Commander) (1994) was awarded the Prize of the Bucharest
Writers' Association. Varujan Vosganian has written more than five
hundred articles, studies and essays on economics, politics, and
literature, which have been translated in English, Spanish, Russian,
Ukrainian, and Armenian. The novel The Book of Whispers, published in
2009, was greeted as a revelation by the Romanian critics. It has
earned extensive praise and is already regarded as one of the most
important books of contemporary Romanian literature.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/737145/varujan-vosganians-new-book-tells-about-running-sores-and-memories.html
12:50, 19 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS. The former Minister of Economy of
Romania, First Deputy Chairman of the Writers' Union of Romania
Varujan Vosganian published his new book titled "The Play of Hundred
Leaves and Other Stories" (Jocul celor o sutÄ? de frunze È'i alte
povestiri, Editura Polirom, 2013, Bucuresti).
As reports "Armenpress" there are six stories enclosed in the book.
The stories are dedicated to disagreement, quests, uncertainty, and
running sores.
Vosganian's "The book of whispers" was published in 2009 in Bucharest
and became the winner of the highest scores and won the most awards of
the publishing year. Just three months after the publication of the
novel, the Spanish Pre-Textos publishing house acquired the right to
publish it in Spanish from Romanian Polirom publishing house.
The Spanish version was published in the early 2011, by Joaquà - n
Garrigós' translation, and in August of the same year, it was released
in Argentina by the presence of the author and translator.
"The Book of Whispers" begins in a picturesque register, on a lane of
the Armenian quarter of FocÅ?ani in the 1950s, among the steam of
freshly roasted coffee and the scents of grandmother Armenuhi's
larder, among the old books and photographs of grandfather Garabet.
But the reader is not left to savour the intimacy of this hearth and
home and nor is he invited to chat with the merry folk who in
peacetime spin stories about Ara the Fair and Tigran the Great.
Varujan Vosganian's "old Armenians from childhood" have no delectable
tales to tell, but rather events that are thoroughly disturbing. In
narrating these events, they attempt to disburden themselves of a
trauma ` their own and that of their forbears.
The history of the 1915 genocide against the Armenians, the history of
the interminable convoys of those banished into the Circles of Death,
into the Deir ez Zor Desert, the secret history of Armenian
freemasonry in Romania, of General Dro's army, the history of the
Armenians who followed the path of exile in the Stalinist period ` all
these and many other biographically filtered histories are to be found
illustrated in the pages of this unsettling book.
The book caused so many troubles to the Turkish authorities, which
spare no effort to prevent its further translations and publications.
The Turkish Embassy to Romania sent a note of complaint to the
Romanian authorities, when a meeting dedicated to the book and its
author was organized in one of the country's museums.
Varujan Vosganian was born in Craiova on 25 July 1958. He spent his
childhood and adolescence in FocÅ?ani. He is a graduate of the Faculty
of Commerce of the Academy of Economic Studies and of the Faculty of
Mathematics of Bucharest University. He is a Doctor of Economics,
a founder of the Romanian Society for Economics, an International
Adviser to the European Union's Centre for Political Studies, based in
Brussels, and a member of the Young Politicians Club (London). He is
the Senator for Jassy and between 2006 and 2008 he was Minister of
Finance and the Economy. He is President of the Union of Armenians in
Romania and Vice President of the Romanian Writers' Union.
Besides various theoretical works, mainly on economic subjects, he has
published three volumes of poetry: Å?amanul albastru (The Blue
Shaman) (1994), Ochiul alb al reginei (The White Eye of the Queen)
(2001), and Iisus cu o mie de braţe (Jesus with a Thousand Arms)
(2004). His collection of novellas, Statuia comandorului (The Statue
of the Commander) (1994) was awarded the Prize of the Bucharest
Writers' Association. Varujan Vosganian has written more than five
hundred articles, studies and essays on economics, politics, and
literature, which have been translated in English, Spanish, Russian,
Ukrainian, and Armenian. The novel The Book of Whispers, published in
2009, was greeted as a revelation by the Romanian critics. It has
earned extensive praise and is already regarded as one of the most
important books of contemporary Romanian literature.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/737145/varujan-vosganians-new-book-tells-about-running-sores-and-memories.html