After saying goodbye to childhood, rereading fairy tales is a rush from a distance to a place terribly close to the ball of childhood. The bottle of miracles – the painful and incomparable reminder that we have come from a fairy tale and cannot return. Therefore, we have no choice but to become a fairy tale.
The Unknown Autobiography, Eastern Armenian, 2024, 108p., hardcover, 978-9939-9285-5-5/ paperback, 978-9939-9285-4-8
About the author
Ruben Filyan was born in 1952 in Yerevan. His first book, a collection of short stories The Unknown Autobiography, was published in 1980, and the novel The Ambassador of Your Country was published posthumously. In 1981, he left Soviet Armenia, visited France, Egypt, Jordan, taught yoga and karate. Ruben Filyan died in 1983 in India (Goa).