ARI Literature Foundation with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has published Krikor Beledian’s books Towards the Great Metaphor and Almost the Voice. Conversations between Aram Pachyan and Krikor Beledian.
Conversations with Krikor Beledian begins with Aram Pachyan’s introduction, A Few Words, and the book consists of three conversations that Aram Pachyan conducted with Krikor Beledian during the past 10 years. The core of the book is the literature of Krikor Beledian, a writer, thinker, and cultural historian, with its many ramifications. And, of course, the conversations are literature themselves, covering language, history, time, etc.
The initiator of this publishing project is Aram Pachyan, who is also the editor of the books.
Almost the Voice: Conversations with Krikor Beledian, Western Armenian, 2025, 180 p., hardcover, 9789939-9347-7-8/paperback, 978-9939-9347-5-4
About the Author
Krikor Beledian is a poet, prose-writer and literary critic. He was born in Beirut and afterwards he moved to Paris to study at Sorbonne University. Beledian taught for many years at the INALCO (Institut national de langues et civilisations orientales) and Catholic University of Lyon. He is an author of numerous works and delivers lectures at acclaimed universities around the world.