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 | | Scenes from an Armenian Childhood |
| Titre : | Scenes from an Armenian Childhood / auteur(s) : Vahan TOTOVENTS - Edited and translated by Mischa Kudian |
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| Editeur : | Mastots Press, London |
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| Année : | 1980 |
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| Imprimeur/Fabricant : | The Garden City Press Limited |
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| Description : | 14,5 x 22,5 cm, 182 pages, hardcover |
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| Sujets : | Armenian history |
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| ISBN : | 0903039079 |
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| Lecture On-line : | non disponible |
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Commentaire :Vahan Totovents grew up in Armenia in a town which lay on the old Roman road running eastward from Byzantium and on to Babylon. He died between the wars, having become one of the most respected of Armenian writers, and this was the first of his books to appear in an English translation.
It presents a series of pictures from an Armenian childhood in the Eighteen-eighties, with each scene exactly and lyrically turned to catch the essence of a childhood experience. From family life the book broadens to include a view of the street, the neighbours, and out into the rural scene, the vineyards and hills and neighbouring mountains, the camel trains from the south, and the robbers from the hills. The whole world of Asia Minor is revealed with striking clarity and precision; and the reader's knowledge of the grim years that were in store for Armenia gives added poignancy to this vivid picture of a vanished age. |
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| | Tell me, Bella |
| Titre : | Tell me, Bella / auteur(s) : Vahan TOTOVENTS - A selection of stories by Vahan Totovents, Edited and translated by Mischa Kudian |
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| Editeur : | Mastots Press, London |
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| Année : | 1974 |
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| Imprimeur/Fabricant : | Ebenezer Baylis and Sons |
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| Description : | 14,5 x 22,5 cm, 128 pages, hardcover |
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| Sujets : | Selected stories -- Armenian history |
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| ISBN : | 090303901X |
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| Lecture On-line : | non disponible |
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Commentaire :Totovents has written novels, short stories, plays, and poems. He had planned to write a novel about the miraculous resurgence of the Armenian people from the ashes of the Black Year of 1915 into a prospering state, but he did not live to achieve this aim, due to his death in 1937, at the age of forty-four. He did, however, write a faceted sketch entitled Tell Me, Bella, which reflects with lyrical evocation something of the colourful background of life and events during the period of Armenian history in the first quarter of this century, as do the rest of the fascinating stories in this book.
Foreword 7
Pale-blue Flowers 9
A Provincial Tragedy 42
Yeldiz 69
The Apricot Tree 82
The Two Graves 98
Tell Me, Bella 122 |
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