Writers of Disaster: Armenian Literature in the Twentieth Century. Vol. One: The National Revolution, Marc Nichanian (softcover)

The four groundbreaking studies in this volume consider the work of four Armenian writers who were victims of Stalin’s purges: Yeghishé Charents, Gurgen Mahari, Zabel Esayan, and Vahan Totovents. Fresh translations of some of the most significant works of these authors appear at the end of the books.

All four studies deal with the historical phenomenon of the national revolution—the movement of national liberation among Armenians at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century—and its literary reception or treatment.

In this volume, Marc Nichanian examines “one question that could not become the object of a historical inquiry: how are we to understand the link between this movement of national liberation and the extermination of the Ottoman Armenians during World War I?”