Lovely selection Ani! I know it is going to be difficult to do but I wanted to do Narekatsi. I need to think of how to do it since I have Armenian - Russian dual text in my library but haven't yet tried the English translation of the book. There is a professor at Oxford who specialises in Narekatsi. Once my move to the new house is completed, I might try to interview him, maybe he will suggest a good way to approach the work. :)
Narekatsi is another world, Vashik, incredibly rich and enriching. The direction of your thought is interesting, who knows, maybe the Oxford professor can give you the right advice. But contact him, I would also be interested to know his opinion...
Thank you so much Vashik, you offer a wonderful selection.
Personally I would add
-Dostoevsky, "Notes from Underground", "Demons"
-Jonathan Swift - "Gulliver's Travels"
-Kierkegaard - "Fear and Trembling", "Either"
-Gilgamesh
-Mahabharata
-Narekatsi - Book of Lamentations
If poetry, then Baudelaire for sure...
... and yet many other masterpieces :)
Lovely selection Ani! I know it is going to be difficult to do but I wanted to do Narekatsi. I need to think of how to do it since I have Armenian - Russian dual text in my library but haven't yet tried the English translation of the book. There is a professor at Oxford who specialises in Narekatsi. Once my move to the new house is completed, I might try to interview him, maybe he will suggest a good way to approach the work. :)
Narekatsi is another world, Vashik, incredibly rich and enriching. The direction of your thought is interesting, who knows, maybe the Oxford professor can give you the right advice. But contact him, I would also be interested to know his opinion...
What about a book of poetry? Maybe a collection of Langston Hughes’ works?