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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   28 March 2024

Yerevan Bestseller 3/24: Exupéry, Verneuil, Vahan Hovhannisyan: their works demanded

Yerevan Bestseller 3/24:  Exupéry, Verneuil, Vahan Hovhannisyan: their works demanded

YEREVAN, AUGUST 7, ARMENPRESS: "The Little Prince" by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, re-published by “Antares” and “Edit Print”, tops the Yerevan Bestseller this week. The novella is both the most read and most translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. The book was translated into more than 190 languages and dialects, as well as Braille. Over 80 million examples of the book were sold. It had several publications in Armenian. Saint-Exupéry, a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and a reserve military pilot at the start of the Second World War, wrote and illustrated the manuscript while exiled in the United States after the Fall of France. He had travelled there on a personal mission to persuade its government to quickly enter the war against Nazi Germany. In the midst of personal upheavals and failing health he produced almost half of the writings he would be remembered for, including a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love and loss, in the form of a young prince fallen to Earth.

“The Art of Dedication or Dithyramb to a Rose” written by Edgar Harutyunyan occupies the second position in the list.

The third horizontal is occupied by the “The Book of Lamentations'' by St. Gregory of Narek published by “MHM”, “Nairi” and “Zangak” publishing houses. The mystical poem "Book of Lamentations" has been translated into many languages and has played a significant role in the development of the Armenian literary language. In 95 grace-filled prayers St. Gregory draws on the exquisite potential of the Classical Armenian language to translate the pure sighs of the broken and contrite heart into an offering of words pleasing to God. The result is an edifice of faith for the ages, unique in Christian literature for its rich imagery, its subtle theology, its Biblical erudition, and the sincere immediacy of its communication with God. This masterpiece by St. Gregory of Narek has always been included in our bestseller books list.

The 4th horizontal goes to “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Dr. Spencer Johnson, which is one of the most read books in the world. With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change--an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable. Most people are fearful of change because they don't believe they have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Spencer Johnson shows us that what matters most is the attitude we have about change. When the Y2K panic gripped the corporate realm before the new millennium, most work environments finally recognized the urgent need to get their computers and other business systems up to speed and able to deal with unprecedented change. And businesses realized that this was not enough: they needed to help people get ready, too. Spencer Johnson has created his new book to do just that. The coauthor of the multimillion bestseller “The One Minute Manager” has written a deceptively simple story with a dramatically important message that can radically alter the way we cope with change. Who Moved My Cheese? allows for common themes to become topics for discussion and individual interpretation.

“Mother” (Mayrig) by Henri Verneuil occupies the fifth place. Verneuil was born Ashot Malakian to Armenian parents in Rodosto. He was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France. He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Film Festival, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, French Legion of Honor, Golden Globe Award, French National Academy of Cinema and Honorary Cesar awards. In 1924, when Ashot was a little child his family fled to Marseille in France, to escape persecution after the Armenian Genocide. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel “Mayrig”, which he dedicated to his mother and made into a 1991 film with the same name, which was followed by a sequel, 588 Rue Paradis, the following year. Verneuil has filmed almost all the great figures of French cinema, with the exception of Bourvil, as even Louis de Funes has a small role in one of his films.

The famous late Armenian politician Vahan Hovhannisyan wrote his work “Mandylion” in the genre of historical intellectual detective. The book is in the 6th place this week. Vahan Hovhannisyan received a special prize for this book in the “Bestseller of the Year” ceremony.

The actions of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee take place in a small American city around the story of a humble family.  Following the events of the novel through the eyes of a nine-year-old girl, you start thinking about such important issues as tolerance, jurisdiction, kindness and conscience. And finally, you come to agree with the child’s analysis at which she arrives as a result of experience of 3 years and you - as a result of the    mental experience obtained from reading: “We are going to grow up further but there is little we can learn, maybe only the algebra.” The book was published by “Zangak”. The novel takes the 7th place.

"1984" by George Orwell occupies the eighth position of the Bestseller Books List introduced by Armenpress News Agency. While 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia", that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world — so powerful that it's completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of entire generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions — a legacy that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" again by Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez occupies the ninth place. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The widely acclaimed book, considered by many to be the author's masterpiece, was first published in Spanish in 1967, and subsequently has been translated into thirty-seven languages and has sold more than 30 million copies. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Vanguard) literary movement. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of a family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

“My Name Is Red” by writer Orhan Pamuk occupies the final place. At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.

To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “New Book” (093-60-40-64), “Noah’s Ark” (56-81-84), “Armenian Book” (54-07-06), “Edit Print” (57-70-09), “Narek” (51-91-36) and “Zangak” (23-25-28). No textbook was considered during the survey.




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