A book, untitled

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Written as a literary experiment while its author was simultaneously translating the poems of Armenian writer Shushanik Kurghinian into English, ‘A Book, Untitled’ reads on its surface as a translator’s diary. In her experimental feminist work, Armenian writer Shushan Avagyan juxtaposes the imagined encounter between two early twentieth-century feminist writers, Zabel Yesayan and Shushanik Kurghinian, with a conversation between the author and a friend, and the author’s own meanderings on censorship, translation and literature. Presenting interspersed and unidentified voices, Avagyan introduces lines from letters written from prison by Zabel Yesayan to her daughter Sophie, and the conversation between Avagyan and her friend Lara who are contemporaneously searching for the writers’ lost legacies.

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What is history, undocumented? How do we archive censored lives? A poetic reflection on authorship and erasure, A Book, Untitled is an intimate and innovative approach to autofiction and the act of remembering. In her first novel, Armenian writer Shushan Avagyan tells the story of a fictional encounter between Shushanik Kurghinian and Zabel Yesayan, two early twentieth-century pioneers of feminist literature, whose legacies have been obscured in Armenian history. Their fictive meeting is interspersed with conversations between the author and her friend Lara, who are researching the work of Kurghinian and Yesayan. While sifting through censored documents, unpublished works, and unfinished drafts, they linger in speculation and piece together lives that have been overshadowed by the Tsarist and Stalinist regimes. At once electric and ephemeral, A Book, Untitled is a story of re-cognition otherwise — posthumous, imagined, and intricately powerful.

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Weight 174 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.2 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

222

Language

English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

891.99236 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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