Spring Didn’t Come — Part 2

The Armenaker Kamilion posts the second installment of the pages of a diary written by French-Armenian Karabakh war veteran Sargis Hatspanian who spoke on at least two occasions in support of the former president, Levon Ter-Petrossian at opposition protest meetings in Yerevan’s Liberty Square.

This is the second part of Sarkiss Hatspanian’s chronicle. My opinion about its authorship is that he probably did write it. It has a certain, unmistakable quality, style-wise, that belongs to the Armenian school of writers in the France of the 1920s and 30s that Hatspanian is no doubt very familiar with. There are passages in his writing, for example, where he strings together present participle, continuous action verbs set in the past that evokes a dream-like quality so distinct that only people with his background could have written it. And as far as I know there are no other people like that there who, on top of that, would be aware of all the details about the war, the protest, and Armenia in general that he as a long-time resident is privy to. So, yes, he wrote it.

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