“WOMAN IN THE WORK OF KRIKOR ZOHRAB”
By MassisPost
Updated: March 9, 2015
ATHENS (News Network, “Armenia”) — As part of the series of events
dedicated to the 100ary of the Armenian Genocide, the Hellenic-Armenian
Studies Center organized on Saturday March 7, 2014 at the Greek
Cultural Circle “Phanos” (Lantern) in Piraeus an event entitled
“Woman in the Work of Krikor Zohrab”
Writer Joseph Kassesian presented the life and work of the great
Armenian patriot, writer and politician and actors Laurance Menentian
and Haik Kassardjian red Zohrab’s short stories, A Happy Death, A
Magdalene, Tefarik and Zavoulon, translated into Greek. Mr. Kassesian
analyzed the character of the heroine of each of the short stories
and commented on Zohrab’s style and social philosophy.
According to the lecturer, Krikor Zohrap was part of a generation
of intellectuals that had a very important role in the Armenian
culture, a generation that came to life after decades of incubation
that included the creation of an Armenian bourgeoisie in the Ottoman
Empire, the opening of a big number of schools, the publication of
numerous newspapers and reviews, the graduation of hundreds of Armenian
students from European universities etc. The loss of that generation,
underlined Mr. Kassesian, left the Armenian Diaspora intellectually
leaderless and created in the cultural development of the Armenian
nation a gap that was not filled up since. From that point of view,
concluded the lecturer, one would be completely justified to say that
the Armenian Genocide is still giving its evil fruits.