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Avagyan, Shushan

 
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Synopsis

Written as a literary experiment while its author was simultaneously translating the poems of Armenian writer Shushanik Kurghinian into English, A Book, Untitled reads on its surface as a translator’s diary.

In her experimental feminist work, Armenian writer Shushan Avagyan juxtaposes the imagined encounter between two early twentieth-century feminist writers, Zabel Yesayan and Shushanik Kurghinian, with a conversation between the author and a friend, and the author’s own meanderings on censorship, translation and literature. Presenting interspersed and unidentified voices, Avagyan introduces lines from letters written from prison by Zabel Yesayan to her daughter Sophie, and the conversation between Avagyan and her friend Lara who are contemporaneously searching for the writers’ lost legacies.

What are the lines that separate the narrative plots, present and past? What is historical, what is imagined? What has been, and what is still being censored? A poetic reflection on authorship,A Book, Untitledrepresents a new and bold approach to autofiction.

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À propos de l'auteur

Shushan Avagyan is the translator of Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot, On the Theory of Prose by Viktor Shklovsky (Dalkey Archive), Art and Production by Boris Arvatov (Pluto), and I Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik Kurghinian (AIWA). Her articles and translations have appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, CONTEXT, Asymptote, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Music & Literature, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches at the American University of Armenia.

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