Güvercinim Harput'ta Kaldı

Hampartzum Gelenyan (Hamasdeg), one of the leading representatives of Armenian rural literature, was born in 1895 in the village of Perçenç, where Armenians and Turks lived together in the south of Harput. He was educated in Armenian schools in his village and Elazig. After working as a teacher for two years, he immigrated to America in 1913. He produced his works on this continent, far away from the lands where he was born and raised. In his stories, where humanity was always at the forefront, he dealt with sad themes with a philosophical approach, simple language and fluent narration. In Hamasdeg's literature, the village of Perçenç, which he longed for all his life, turned into the center of the world. However, he was not satisfied with being the narrator of the local life of his village. In the fate of the Armenian peasant, he traced those who were pushed out of life, those who were expelled from society, even from nature, in short, all humanity. For this reason, it found wide popularity even kilometers beyond its roots. Hamasdeg is an intermediate and special link in the tradition of rural literature in Armenian literature, which started with Hirimyan Hayrig and Sirvantsdyants and continues with Tilgadintsi, Zartaryan, Mintzuri and today Migirdich Margosyan. The most important feature that makes him different from others is that he vividly conveys an almost completely destroyed life with the works he wrote in America, far from his homeland. Despite this distance, Hamasdeg, which deals with the people of the Harput region and the Anatolian village reality, which is always confined to certain templates, with its most naked truthfulness, and embodies the joys, sorrows and excitements of erased lives, allows us to better grasp the spirit of the lands we live on.

 (From the Promotional Bulletin)

First Printing Year: 1998

Size: 13x19, 5

Number of Pages: 176

Language: Turkish