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How I came to know Saroyan 

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profits from the sale of the poster. At 

that point, however, five years into the 

enterprise, I decided that my work was 

done, and consequently stopped marketing 

the poster. 

The surprise 

I must confess that I had never read 

Saroyan’s “The Armenian and the Armenian,” 

the story which contains his arguably 

most famous saying. Then, in 1987, 

while revisiting my antique collection of 

the literary journal Nayiri, published in 

Lebanon by the late author and journalist 

Antranig Dzarougian, I stumbled on a 

story by Saroyan that was translated into 

Armenian and published in the very first 

issue of the journal, in November 1941! 

As I read the piece, titled “The Armenian,” 

I quickly realized that it was the story 

of Saroyan’s 1935 meeting with a fellow 

Armenian, in a Rostov pub – hence the 

actual source of the now-famed Saroyan 

poster’s words. 

But there was still another surprise: 

the conclusion of the saying on the 

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poster did not correspond to the original’s. 

Thus, in the original, absent was 

the reference to the creation of a new 

Armenia. 

How could this be A victim of translation 

Was it possible that we had 

distorted the author’s words all these 

years There was one way to find out. 

With the help of a friend, I obtained a 

copy of Inhale and Exhale from the UCLA 

library and read the book’s last story, 

“The Armenian and the Armenian” (pages 

437–38). 

Of the three differences between the 

texts of the poster and the book, the 

following was the main one: in the original, 

Saroyan writes: “When two of them 

meet in a beer parlor twenty years after, 

and laugh and speak in their tongue...” 

The poster says: “When two of them 

meet anywhere in the world, see if they 

will not create a new Armenia.” 

I was taken aback. How was I supposed 

to feel Had the divergent wording 

of the Saroyan poster, started by 

Nakashian, unwittingly reproduced by 

myself, and copied by everyone else, 

including the William Saroyan Society, 

The author reads Asbarez under the famous 

poster. 

been a falsification Had we betrayed 

the great author 

I ultimately came to terms with the 

snafu by weighing intentions, the damage, 

if any, and the results. Was the 

poster wording not quite a faithful 

reproduction of the original Yes. But 

was the spirit of Saroyan’s idea compromised 

by the poster version Not 

at all. It is clear to me that whereas it 

was indisputably wrong to tweak Saroyan’s 

original text, it was done only 

with the intention of making it even 

more powerful by the inclusion of the 

word “Armenia,” and also securing nontime-specific 

resonance to the author’s 

image. Within this context, Nakashian 

had thought that mention of the beer 

parlor was not a critical component 

of the image, and that the productive 

meeting of two Armenians did not 

hinge on the chronological proximity 

of an event like the Genocide. 

Today I believe that Saroyan’s story, 

“The Armenian and the Armenian,” must 

be read by everyone, especially the young 

generation. It must be studied not only 

in the context of Saroyan’s state of mind 

at 27, when he wrote the story, but its 

relevance to modern Armenian history 

and the Armenian people’s astonishing 

capacity for self-renewal. 

f 

Translated by Ishkhan Jinbashian 

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