Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution

Edited by Marc Nichanian, Vartan Matiossian, Vardan Matteosean This book offers a collection of articles and studies on Yeghishe Charents (1897-1937), who has always been considered as the poet of Revolution in Armenia and is certainly one of the greatest poetical voices of the twentieth century in the Armenian language. The volume partly gathers the essays presented at the Charents conference organized at Columbia University in November 1997 by Marc Nichanian for the centennial of the poet’s birth and the sixtieth anniversary of his untimely and tragic death. It was the first time an international conference on a modern Armenian writer was held at a Western University. Other important essays have been added in order to echo the recent history of the Charents reception in English (Peter Balakian, G.M. Goshgarian, James Russell, Sonia Ketchian). A general introduction proposes a reflection on the poet’s encounter with history, his infatuation with Mayakovsky and the work of mourning th