Friday, April 18, 2008
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PRESS RELEASE
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VOYAGES EGARÉS (Meandering Journeys). By Denis Donikian. Bilingual edition (French/Armenian). Armenian translations by Nvard Vardanian. 132 pages. Yerevan: Actual Art. 2008 ($20.00 including postage).
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From Homer to James Joyce, the quest of Ulysses or the search for self-discovery has been a central theme in the literature of the West. It is this very same search that Denis Donikian undertakes in this elegantly produced volume of elegiac and multilayered prose poems. The book is divided into seven sections subtitled “Chronicles of Captive Years,” “Impediments (fragments),” “Meandering Journeys,” “Symptoms,” “Deviations,” “Persecuted Reasons,” “To His Brother.” The translations by Nvart Vartanian (who has also translated Proust, René Char, and Lautréamont) are so faithful to the original that this volume could serve as an ideal text for readers who would like to hone their linguistic skills in French and Armenian.
Denis Donikian is a prolific poet, essayist, multimedia artist, and journalist.
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VOYAGES EGARES : http://www.denisdonikian.com/vyagesegares2.htm
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