Samuel (novel)

Samuel
Author	Raffi
Original title	Սամուէլ
Language	Armenian
Genre	Historical novel
Publication date	1886; separate edition 1888
Media type	Print
Text	Samuel at Wikisource

Samuel (Armenian: Սամվել, romanized: Samvel, pre-reform orthography: Սամուէլ) is an 1886 Armenian-language historical novel by the novelist Raffi. Considered by some critics his most successful work, the plot centres on the killing of the fourth-century Prince Vahan Mamikonian and his wife by their son Samuel.[1][2][3] It was first published in the Tiflis newspaper Ardzagankʻ in 1886 and released as a separate edition in 1888. The book is required reading for schoolchildren in Armenia.

Translations

French: Samuel, Jean-Jacques Avédissian, Editions Thaddée (2010), 480 pages

References

Agop Jack Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the eighteenth ... 0814332218- 2005 p. 96 "Raffi devoted more time to his next novel, Samuel (1884), and this may be why it is his most successful work. ... character, Raffi selects a powerful theme, the killing of fourth-century Prince Vahan Mamikonian and his wife by their son Samuel."
Manuel Sarkisyanz A Modern History of Transcaucasian Armenia: Social, ... 1975 p.100 "Raffi's " Samuel " can compare with such historical novels as " The Last Days of Pompeii " by Lytton and " Ein Kampf um Rom " by Felix Dahn. The author regretted that old Armenian historiography gave little attention to the people and that the.."
Kevork B. Bardakjian - A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature, 2000 0814327478 p. 147 "Raffi expanded this act of patricide into an extensive novel cast against the background of a massive Persian campaign to supplant the native tongue and culture with their own. The novel illustrates selfless patriotism; "

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[1] Agop Jack Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the eighteenth ... 0814332218- 2005 p. 96 "Raffi devoted more time to his next novel, Samuel (1884), and this may be why it is his most successful work. ... character, Raffi selects a powerful theme, the killing of fourth-century Prince Vahan Mamikonian and his wife by their son Samuel."

[2] Manuel Sarkisyanz A Modern History of Transcaucasian Armenia: Social, ... 1975 p.100 "Raffi's " Samuel " can compare with such historical novels as " The Last Days of Pompeii " by Lytton and " Ein Kampf um Rom " by Felix Dahn. The author regretted that old Armenian historiography gave little attention to the people and that the.."

[3] Kevork B. Bardakjian - A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature, 2000 0814327478 p. 147 "Raffi expanded this act of patricide into an extensive novel cast against the background of a massive Persian campaign to supplant the native tongue and culture with their own. The novel illustrates selfless patriotism; "