ARGONAUT BOOKS

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 introduce...Read More