The Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society has published a volume titled “The Book Collector” by writer, essayist, and translator Vardan Fereshetyan. “Rooster’s Crow,” another book by the same author which was published in 2010, is already sold out.
“When in addition to writing too little, you also lose too much, there is always a great temptation to take a look back at the things you have lost or at least an effort to restore them in their initial form, and that often makes speech impossible, even in the silence of memory, which is the swaddle for speech … What seems to be impossible in incessant noise sometimes blossoms in the depth of silence, a place where you feel it is possible to speak, without distorting silence, and by giving it verbal expression, because as said by a medieval author, speech should be the truth about what contains silence… In the end, to feel what language a writer is using in his writing, it is similarly or more important to feel the language of his silence; otherwise, you may not penetrate into ‘the lightning syntax.’”
“The Book Collector” contains the novel “The City,” the series “Out of Law,” short stories, and essays. Also published in the book are some of the writer’s sketches, important lead-ups that set the mood for each story. The book is concluded by Vache Yepremyan’s essay, “Monologue Before the Rooster’s Crow; Dialogue After the Rooster’s Crow,” where he writes: “Vardan Fereshetyan’s ‘Rooster’s Crow’ defines an epistemological duration without a beginning and without an end, where the sole indicator of time is the perpetual present.’”
“I have been here, I exist, I am your respiration and your flexibility, perhaps tomorrow you may throw me on the shore, but I carry the strength and the yearning of someone’s glance and do not like the cold reflection of these mossy days. The rooster’s crow tensed at the top of the bigarade was painting a daybreak, and the daybreak was painting a rooster’s crow,” (“Rooster’s Crow,” pages 142–143.)
In the coming days, the Hamazkayin office in Armenia is planning to organize a book-signing event for the newly published book.