"Yeghishe Charents: The Tragic Revolutionary"
Sunday, February 26, 2012 10:30-5:30 p.m.
Armenian Studies Program U.C. Berkeley
Public Events
Sunday, February 26 10:30am-5:30pm
SYMPOSIUM
"Yeghishe Charents: The Tragic Revolutionary"
370 Dwinelle Hall; UC Berkeley
This symposium will address central aspects of Yeghishe Charents's life and oeuvre.
Charents (1897-1937) is an iconic Armenian poet whose works were translated by writers such as Louis Aragon, Anna Akhmatova, Valery Bryusov, and Boris Pasternak, among others. A fervent Boshevik at first, he gradually distanced himself from Stalinism and fell victim to its purges.
Sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley For more information, call ISEEES at (510) 642-3230.
