Shushan Avagyan
A Book, Untitled
A Book, Untitled
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Shortlisted, 2024 TA First Translation Prize
Winner, 2024 MSA Translation Prize
Winner of English PEN award 2023
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 While sifting through censored documents, unpublished works, and unfinished drafts, they linger in speculation and piece together lives that have been overshadowed by the Tsarist and Stalinist regimes.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.
Translated by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz. Originally published in 2006. Description taken from the publisher.
Author: Shushan Avagyan
Editor: Tatiana Ryckman
Publisher: Titled Axis Press
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Year: 2023
Pages: 188
Language: English
ISBN: 9781911284888
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