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'The Fool' (, 'Khent', ) is an 1880 Armenian language novel by the Armenian novelist Raffi, one of the best-known novels by one of Armenia's greatest novelists.Ronald Grigor Suny - 'They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else : A History of the Armenian Genocide' - 1400865581 2015 Page 76 "The novels of Raffi, particularly Khent (The Fool) published in 1880, had their loyal readers both in [...]" The plot is based on the last Russo-Turkish War (187778), the plot tells a romance set against the background of the divided Armenian nation.

Setting and structure



The novel is set in three districts near the border between the Russian and Ottoman Empires: Bayazit, Alashkert, and Vagharshapat.

The novel opens with four fast-paced chapters describing the Turkish siege of Bayazit, an historic episode from the last Russo-Turkish war.'Report on the Russian army and its campaigns in Turkey in 1877-1878' by F. V. Greene, D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1879, http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000007718525;view=1up;seq=411 p. 385 After a harrowing depiction of the battle, its outcome is left in suspense as chapter five suddenly shifts the focus to an earlier time to tell the story of a village in Alashkert and a romance caught in the treacherous sociopolitical crosscurrents of the war. The succeeding twenty-nine chapters present a rich ethnographic account of country life in this particular region of Western Armenia, while depicting the ideological themes that dominated Armenian life at the time through a set of powerful, competing actors. The novel concludes in Vagharshapat [Etchmiadzin].

Translations



French translation



The French translation was completed by Mooshegh Abrahamian as 'Le fou : Consquences tragiques de la guerre russo-turque de 1877-1878 en Armnie' in 2009.[https://www.babelio.com/livres/Raffi-Le-fou-Consequences-tragiques-de-la-guerre-russo-/256189#:~:text=de%20passe%20oubli%C3%A9%20%3F-,Le%20fou.,de%201877%2D1878%20en%20Arm%C3%A9nie&text=R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9%20%3A,le%20funeste%20destin%20des%20Arm%C3%A9niens Published by Bleu Autour]

English translations

Jane Wingate (1950).

Donald Abcarian (2000).'Khente [The Fool]'. English translation: Raffi, 'The Fool', trans. Donald Abcarian (Princeton: Gomidas Institute, 2000)'

Kimberley McFarlane and Beyon Miloyan (2020).[https://www.sophenearmeniaca.com/books/books-in-english/the-fool/ Sophene Armeniaca]

References



Category:1880 novels

Category:Armenian-language novels

Category:Armenian novels

Category:Novels set in Armenia

Category:Novels by Raffi

Category:Russo-Turkish War (18771878)


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