Memory of My Memory
- Translated by: Ruken Bağdu Kesk in
- Original Title: Memoire de ma Memoire
“The memory of my memory is not the memories I lived, but the memories I inherited.
“An echo of the past. The submerged, unseen part of my past. The dark birth point of Sagam. I carried this tragedy on the day I was born, in the clot I held in my palms, and throughout my childhood.
“And with the time I always want to forget.”This narrative, based on the drama experienced by Armenians within the Ottoman Empire at the end of the nineteenth century and after the First World War, is a combination of history and family memories; It is a combination of photographs that come to life through narratives and the remains of a destruction, a uniquely powerful blend that attracts its heirs as well.
This event, called the first genocide of the twentieth century, has never achieved such an epic and universal expression.
Poet, geostrategy and troubled areas expert Gérard Chaliand for a long time refused to bear the burden of the 1915 genocide in which he sacrificed his grandfathers. This text is a combination of 20 years of speech fragments over time.
| Publisher | : | Avesta Publications |
| Number of pages | : | 82 |