Tachjian V., Reconstructing Armenian Village Life Manoog Dzeron and Alevor

Against this backdrop, Alevor was quietly buried in Cairo. His funeral was not even covered by the Armenian press.

Despite these ideological and political interests, the works of the two authors remained loyal to their principle of portraying village life and free, for the most part, of the influence of post-Catastrophe reconstructed historiography of the period. his aspect makes Manoog Dzeron and Alevor’s books into works that do not di er substantially from the memory books let by others of their generation in the magnificent genre of legacy writing, even more unique. All of them are creations from the same sense of urgency—to remember, recollect, and eternalize the Armenian life of the village or town. It was a life that members of that generation were forcibly torn from. hey carried that longing for the lost homeland with them as they established their new lives on foreign shores.

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