VOYAGES EGARÉS
(Meandering Journeys)
by Ara Baliozian
Friday, April 18, 2008
VOYAGES EGARÉS (Meandering Journeys).
By Denis Donikian. Bilingual edition (French/Armenian). Armenian translations
by Nvard Vardanian. 132 pages. Yerevan: Actual Art. 2008.
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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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