
A Book, Untitled
by Shushan Avagyan
Title:
A Book, Untitled
Author:
Shushan Avagyan
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
191 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Tilted Axis Press
ISBN-13:
9781911284888
EAN:
9781911284888
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
296
Dimensions (mm):
128 x 198 x 22
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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 While sifting through censored documents, unpublished works, and unfinished drafts, they linger in speculation and piece together lives that have been overshadowed by the Tsarist and Stalinist regimes.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.










