L'Agonie d'un peuple (1917) is the first Armenian account beyond the state of simple document to give form to the events, and is the account which gave birth to what we nowadays call “testimony literature”. The translator's postscript offers a contextual reflection on the challenges of disaster testimony.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques