Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack, the third such incident in less than a month, forcibly reminded West Europeans of the fierce convictions of Armenian nationalists. In a typewritten note distributed to local press agencies, a little-known group calling itself the Revolutionary Armenian Army claimed responsibility for the assault. "We have decided to blow up this building and remain under the collapse," declared the note. "This is not suicide, but rather a sacrifice on the altar of freedom...
...centerpiece of his novel, Thomas has translated an unfinished story by Pushkin and supplied two alternative endings. Signs of Thomas' other collaborations are on virtually every page: snatches of Russian poetry; names of obscure Armenian writers; places that evoke poems by Pushkin...
There is scarcely a discernible connection between the improvisers' tales. Usually after a bout of vicious lovemaking, each bard tells a snippet of a story. A Russian seduces a teen-age Polish gymnast on an ocean liner; an Armenian American on a pilgrimage to Soviet Armenia makes furious love with her guide. The lengthiest improvisation is narrated by the poet Surkov, who fancies he is Pushkin incarnate. After a jealous scene with Pushkin's wife, he retells the master's unfinished tale, Egyptian Nights, followed by a parodic string of bromides: "Her black eyes flashed...
...story begins with the tale of three writers, a Russian an Armenian and an American woman, who are snack in an Armenian hotel and agree to improvise a story on a common subject. One writer tells the story of Sarkov, a Russian poet on his way to American by sea. On board ship feeling quite ill, Surkov often becomes delirious and imagines himself to be Pushkin. Also in a rather hallucinatory way he runs into the ubiquitous Finn, Satanic old man who has taken part in all of the world's great massacres. In this milieu, Surkov sits down...
Returning to the three writers in the Armenian hotel room, the second writer also tells the tale of Surkov, this travelling to American woman, does not improvise a story at all but rather explains what it was that brought them all together in the first place--Ararat. The mountain Ararat, sacred to Armenians, is the symbol that connects the three writers, as indeed, it connects all the levels of the novel...