IF IT IS A WRITER, FICTION COLLECTION BY ARAM PACHYAN

Fiction collection/ Edge Publishing house/ 2023/192 pages

The collection of fiction is comprised of three parts. The first includes articles, speeches and texts by the author written in the last few year on the occasions of his EUPL prize, Day of European Languages, war in Nagorno Karabakh and other events. The second part of the book is short stories and the third part are the essays and literary book reviews on literature about pandemic and other memory texts which are intitled Memory of…

 

Pachyan is a writer who instantly reacts to events happening around him, in Armenia or around the world․ This book is a reflection of the times Pachyan lived in after his previous book. It is a reaction to the hardest times and that’s why he is questioning himself: If This a Writer, referring to Primo Levi’s poem If This Is a Man.