THE RETURN OF KIKOS BY ARMEN OF ARMENIA

A novel / Antares / 2020 / 208 pages

The short story collection is the writer’s first book, and it includes the very first samples of the interactive Ar­menian prose, as the writer himself characterizes his work. The short stories are structured as games with readers, who should act as co-authors of the short stories. The author is also open to cooperation with other writers (Flying Bicycle; co-author Aram Pachyan, The Last Breakfast; co-author Lilit Karapetyan). Game is an indivisible part of Armen Ohanyan’s works (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Mario Superstar, Hide-and-seek, Matryoshka). That is his unique way to involve readers and a solution to the problem of isolation in the modern Armenian literary process. As a follower of post modernism, he reconsiders the past, unfastening some space in Armenian prose both for old and new heroes (The Return of Kikos, Red Hooding Ride, Radio Yerevan).