Journey To Armenia

Author : Osip Mandelstam
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781910749401

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Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam Pdf

The last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled to Siberia where he died near Vladivostok six years later. An inimitable volume, Journey to Armenia is a travel book in name only. Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay, he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. This edition also includes the companion piece, “Conversation About Dante,” which Seamus Heaney called “Osip Mandelstam’s astonishing fantasia on poetic creation.” An incomparable apologia for poetic freedom and a challenge to the Bolshevik establishment, the essay was dictated by the poet to his wife, Nadezhda Mandelstam, in 1934 and 1935, during the last phase of his itinerant life. It has close ties to Journey to Armenia.

Author : Osip Ė Mandelʹštam,Harry Gifford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:310712358

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Mandelstam and the Journey by Osip Ė Mandelʹštam,Harry Gifford Pdf

Author : Osip Mandelʹshtam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610452759

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Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelʹshtam Pdf

Author : Markar Melkonian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786739537

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My Brother's Road by Markar Melkonian Pdf

What do 'Abu Sindi', 'Timothy Sean McCormack', 'Saro', and 'Commander Avo' all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow cones. Europe denounced him as an international terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. Why Armenia? Why adopt the cause of a remote corner of the Caucasus whose peoples had scattered throughout the world after the early twentieth century Ottoman genocides? Markar Melkonian spent seven years unravelling the mystery of his brother's road: a journey which began in his ancestors' town in Turkey and leading to a blood-splattered square in Tehran, the Kurdish mountains, the bomb-pocked streets of Beirut, and finally, to the windswept heights of Mountainous Karabagh. Monte's life embodied the agony and the follies bedevelling the end of the Cold War and the unravelling of the Soviet Union. Yet, who really was this man? A terrorist or a hero? "My Brother's Road" is not just the story of a long journey and a short life, it is an attempt to understand what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words.

Author : Meline Toumani
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 125007410X

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There Was and There Was Not by Meline Toumani Pdf

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a "love thine enemy" experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use—and abuse—our personal histories Meline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made in Turkey were boycotted. The source of this enmity was the Armenian genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government, and Turkey's refusal to acknowledge it. A century onward, Armenian and Turkish lobbies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to convince governments, courts and scholars of their clashing versions of history. Frustrated by her community's all-consuming campaigns for genocide recognition, Toumani leaves a promising job at The New York Times and moves to Istanbul. Instead of demonizing Turks, she sets out to understand them, and in a series of extraordinary encounters over the course of four years, she tries to talk about the Armenian issue, finding her way into conversations that are taboo and sometimes illegal. Along the way, we get a snapshot of Turkish society in the throes of change, and an intimate portrait of a writer coming to terms with the issues that drove her halfway across the world. In this far-reaching quest, told with eloquence and power, Toumani probes universal questions: how to belong to a community without conforming to it, how to acknowledge a tragedy without exploiting it, and most importantly how to remember a genocide without perpetuating the kind of hatred that gave rise to it in the first place.

Author : Sir John Macdonald Kinneir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Armenia
ISBN : ONB:+Z185132202

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Journey Through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan in the Years 1813 and 1814 by Sir John Macdonald Kinneir Pdf

Author : Arra S. Avakian,Ara John Movsesian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Armenia
ISBN : 0916919242

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Armenia by Arra S. Avakian,Ara John Movsesian Pdf

ARMENIA: A Journey Through History contains a wealth of information about the Armenian people, history, significant events, important places, and individuals who did much to make the Armenian nation what it is.

Author : Arra S. Avakian,Ara John Movsesian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Armenia
ISBN : 0916919226

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Armenia by Arra S. Avakian,Ara John Movsesian Pdf

Author : David Marshall Lang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000514773

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Armenia by David Marshall Lang Pdf

Originally published in 1970, this book is the result of many years of study and research in the field. It begins with a geographic and ethnic survey of the land and Armenian people and traces the land’s prehistory back to the Old Stone Age. The origins of the wine-making and bronze-working industries are discussed, in which Armenia played a pioneering role. The outstanding Armenian contribution to Church art and architecture is also explored as is the contribution of Armenia to painting, philosophy, and science. The final section is devoted to an account of Soviet Armenia.

Author : James Justinian Morier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Armenia
ISBN : BML:37001100040141

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A Journey Through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 by James Justinian Morier Pdf

Author : Helen Norsigian Rowles
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438941134

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Armenian History by Helen Norsigian Rowles Pdf

From Thaddeus and Bartholomew through present day, this charming and informative book takes young readers on the inspirational, colorful, and challenging journey of the Armenian people.

Author : Eli Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Armenia
ISBN : NYPL:33433061828475

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Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H. G. O. Dwight in Armenia by Eli Smith Pdf

Author : Margaret Ahnert
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780825305535

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The Knock at the Door by Margaret Ahnert Pdf

In 1915, Armenian Christians in Turkey were forced to convert to Islam, barred from speaking their language, and often driven out of their homes as the Turkish army embarked on a widespread campaign of intimidation and murder. In this riveting book, Margaret Ajemian Ahnert relates her mother Ester's terrifying experiences as a young woman during this period of hatred and brutality. At age 15, Ester was separated from her family during a forced march away from her birth town of Amasia. Though she faced unspeakable horrors at the hands of many she met, and was forced into an abusive marriage against her will, she never lost her faith, quick wit, or ability to see the good in people. Eventually she escaped and emigrated to America. Ahnert's compelling account of her mother's suffering is framed by an intimate portrait of her relationship with her 98-year-old mother. Ester's inspiring stories, told lovingly by her daughter, will give you a window into the harrowing struggle of Armenians during a terrible period in human history.

Author : Vasily Grossman
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782060871

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An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman Pdf

Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman; it is notable for its warmth, its sense of fun and for the benign humility that is always to be found in his writing. After the 'arrest' - as Grossman always put it - of Life and Fate, Grossman took on the task of editing a literal Russian translation of a lengthy Armenian novel. The novel was of little interest to him, but he was glad of an excuse to travel to Armenia. This is his account of the two months he spent there. It is by far the most personal and intimate of Grossman's works, with an air of absolute spontaneity, as though Grossman is simply chatting to the reader about his impressions of Armenia - its mountains, its ancient churches and its people.

Author : Michael J. Arlen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466874008

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Passage to Ararat by Michael J. Arlen Pdf

In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But perhaps most affectingly, Arlen tells a story as large as a whole people yet as personal as the uneasy bond between a father and a son, offering a masterful account of the affirmation and pain of kinship.