Memory of My Memory, 2nd edition
translated from French by Tito Cohen and Juliet Kepl
with a new foreword by Gerard Libaridian
London : Gomidas Institute, 2025,
London : Gomidas Institute, 2025,
x + 64., ISBN 978-1-909382-86-2, pb.,
UK£14.00 / US$20.00
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"La Vie est belle" by Gerard Libaridian (2025)
Foreword by the author
Foreword by the author
1. Then and There
2. The Siege of Hadjin
3. The Combatant’s Saga, 1890-1908
4. Mass Grave as Birthplace, 1915-1916
5. Blood Debt, 1918-1922
6. Final Note, Here and Now
Note: This work was originally published in 2006.
Note: This work was originally published in 2006.
"The memory of my memory is not what I have lived but what I have inherited. It is the echo of the past, the submerged strata of my story. My saga’s dark beginning. The bloodstain within my clenched fist on the day of my birth the tragedy of which I was to inherit as a child. Something I tried to forget.”
"Gérard Chaliand’s book is unadorned. It stands in stark contrast, by force of circumstance, to long, opulent family epics. Here, the ages of life and those of death merge. Here, the names of the deceased are spelled before those of the living. And, when we go back in time, it is to encounter a man, a woman, or massacred children. The "night upstream” of history cannot be erased. It must still and always be borne witness to: the date of the massacres, the countless trials and tortures, the deportations, stages of this impossible life of the persecuted, exiles, glorious episodes too, of resistance and revenge... And in this night, as in these gaps of light, Chaliand rediscovers the faces of his own, so true is it that "this collective history has now coagulated into a personal history.”
—(Patrick Kéchichian, Le Monde, 06/06/2003)
—(Patrick Kéchichian, Le Monde, 06/06/2003)