The Hamazkayin Sanahin Chapter organized the presentation of second volume of Image, Narration, and History book series by philosopher and literary critic Mark Nshanian. It took place on Wednesday 20 April 2017, at 8: 00 pm, at Avedis Aharonian Hall of Armenian Community Center.
Literary Committee Board member Anahit Balian welcomed the guests and delivered the opening speech. She spoke about the first volume of Mark Nshanian’s Image, Narration, and History book series saying that Volume B included the works of Western Armenian four novelists of the 20th century, Zabel Yesayan, Krikor Beledian, Levon Shant and Zareh Vorbuni.
Then she briefly presented Dr. Mark Nshanian and invited Raffi Achemian to speak about the author and his works. Being well acquainted with Mark Nshanian’s books, Raffi Achemian shared enough additional information about the author, and invited him to present the second volume of his Image, Narration, and History book series.
At the beginning of his speech, Dr. Mark Nshanian explained what the survivor language is, and about language and image archiving. Then he presented the two volumes of Image, Narration, and History book series and told how they were born. He mentioned that the work related to survivor and image in the French literature was carried out in a friendly atmosphere, while there was rivalry between the Western writers. It was a rivalry between a man and woman, survivor and witness and between the writers in general.
Before closing his speech, Dr. Nshanian invited the renown in the community sculptor Eugene De Graaf - the author of Vorbuni’s sculpture, to convey his impressions of Zareh Vorbuni. The book contains the image of the sculpture.
Toward the end of the event, Dr. Nshanian answered the questions from the audience and expressed his gratitude to the Literary Committee of Sanahin Chapter and the audience. Then he signed the sold books.
Executive Board of Sanahin Chapter