Short stories
Թլկատինցին եւ իր գործը
Not translated into English
Tlkatintsi · 1927
Synopsis
The volume brings together what the author had sown in the press: travel notes, sketches, chronicles, short stories and plays about the Armenian villages of the Kharpert plain. It shows peasant life as it is seen, touched and heard, its darkest corners as well as childhood memories, the humble delivered up to the exactions of the authorities, orphans, and stories such as Combat de femmes ou combat de taureaux, J'ai fait ma part or Rien qu'un verre.
Context
In 1893 the author answered the call of the men of letters of Constantinople, who demanded a literature rooted in the villages of Western Armenia, and was the first to portray the daily life of Kharpert. In his lifetime he published only one play in volume form. After the genocide, his former pupils in the diaspora searched the periodicals for his texts, and the volume appeared in Boston in 1927, with a preface by Archag Tchobanian.
Who it is for
Short stories in Western Armenian, steeped in the speech of Kharpert. It is worth knowing that this region was emptied of its Armenian population in 1915.
Prizes and reception
The book that restored to the diaspora the work of the first great writer of the Armenian province, counted today among the classics of village literature.