Taghagan Gnige (Yervant Odian, 1921)
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Taghagan Gnige (Yervant Odian, 1921)Secondary Title
Թաղականին կնիկը. The Parish Councilor’s Wife.Description
The novel The Parish Councilor’s Wife by the satirist Yervant Odian delves deeply into the bourgeois lifestyle of the upper echelons of the Istanbul Armenian community. Among Western Armenian writers, none have penetrated and scrutinized this milieu as closely as Odian. The novel captures their everyday life, customs, and concerns, including parish disputes, political factionalism, and the involvement of journalists. In this sense, The Parish Councilor’s Wife is comprehensive. While the plot is rooted in seemingly trivial domestic matters, Odian gradually deepens these issues to reveal social injustices and larger socio-political problems. Readers come to realize that these household issues are symptoms of deeper societal contradictions.Category
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