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Russell to Speak on 'An Armenian Eccentric: The Life and Times of Kara Darvish'
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By Contributor // March 21, 2014
Dr. James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at
Harvard University, will present a lecture entitled "An Armenian
Eccentric: The Life and Times of Kara Darvish," on Thursday, April 3,
2014, at 7:30 p.m. at the National Association for Armenian Studies
and Research (NAASR), 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, Mass.
Russell
Kara Darvish (Hakob Genjian) was an Armenian Futurist poet who lived
and worked mainly in Tiflis, Georgia, before and after World War I.
He wrote several novels and manifestoes, but is best known for the
"postcard" poems he distributed at cafés and outside cinemas which
proclaim his cosmopolitan and revolutionary credo and experiment with
odd typefaces and experiment with incantatory nonsense words in
Armenian, dipping also into the Armenian mythological past. (His
Russian Futurist colleagues named this technique zaum', i.e.,
transrational language.) Among his friends and associates were the
poets Osip Mandelstam and Yeghishe Charents. Kostan Zarian evokes the
poet and his turbulent surroundings in the novel Nave Leran Vra (The
Ship upon the Mountain).
NAASR is especially pleased to present this lecture as its Edward and
Helen Mardigian Library holds several rare titles by Kara Darvish,
which it has made available to Prof. Russell during his research.
James R. Russell has been the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies
at Harvard University since 1992. His books include Bosphorus Nights:
The Complete Lyric Poems of Bedros Tourian, Armenian and Iranian
Studies, The Book of Flowers, An Armenian Epic: The Heroes of Kasht,
Zoroastrianism in Armenia, and Hovhannes Tlkurantsi and the Medieval
Armenian Lyric Tradition.
For more information about this program call 617-489-1610, fax
617-484-1759, [email protected], or write to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave.,
Belmont, MA 02478.
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/03/21/russell-to-speak-on-an-armenian-eccentric-the-life-and-times-of-kara-darvish/
By Contributor // March 21, 2014
Dr. James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at
Harvard University, will present a lecture entitled "An Armenian
Eccentric: The Life and Times of Kara Darvish," on Thursday, April 3,
2014, at 7:30 p.m. at the National Association for Armenian Studies
and Research (NAASR), 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, Mass.
Russell
Kara Darvish (Hakob Genjian) was an Armenian Futurist poet who lived
and worked mainly in Tiflis, Georgia, before and after World War I.
He wrote several novels and manifestoes, but is best known for the
"postcard" poems he distributed at cafés and outside cinemas which
proclaim his cosmopolitan and revolutionary credo and experiment with
odd typefaces and experiment with incantatory nonsense words in
Armenian, dipping also into the Armenian mythological past. (His
Russian Futurist colleagues named this technique zaum', i.e.,
transrational language.) Among his friends and associates were the
poets Osip Mandelstam and Yeghishe Charents. Kostan Zarian evokes the
poet and his turbulent surroundings in the novel Nave Leran Vra (The
Ship upon the Mountain).
NAASR is especially pleased to present this lecture as its Edward and
Helen Mardigian Library holds several rare titles by Kara Darvish,
which it has made available to Prof. Russell during his research.
James R. Russell has been the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies
at Harvard University since 1992. His books include Bosphorus Nights:
The Complete Lyric Poems of Bedros Tourian, Armenian and Iranian
Studies, The Book of Flowers, An Armenian Epic: The Heroes of Kasht,
Zoroastrianism in Armenia, and Hovhannes Tlkurantsi and the Medieval
Armenian Lyric Tradition.
For more information about this program call 617-489-1610, fax
617-484-1759, [email protected], or write to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave.,
Belmont, MA 02478.