Bridges: Remembering Axel Bakunts

Zangezur and Ohio. Opposite sides of the globe. Different worlds. Different people.

I felt the connection, though, of two elderly men in writers’ texts, which almost identically repeat each other.

Uncle Dilan and Francesca, at the decline of their lives, one in the 20s of last century, in the village of Zeyva of the Kapan region (a literary critic supposes), the other 80 years later, in 1987, on a farm near Winterset, revisit the only moment of their life that they lived, the love instant that imparted sense to life and catch the eyes of the two writers among millions.