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The Armenian and the Armenian
"The Armenian and the Armenian" is a short story written by William Saroyan in August in New York. It was first published in in the collection of short stories entitled Inhale & Exhale.[1] Over the years, the story has become known for the excerpt—"arguably [Saroyan's] most famous saying"[2]—about the survival of the Armenian people after the genocide of
Background
William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, to Armenian immigrant parents from Turkish (Western) Armenia.
The Armenian community in Fresno—already significant by the s—grew larger by the influx of genocide survivors and Saroyan grew up in an Armenian environment.[3] In his story "First Visit to Armenia", Saroyan wrote that he "began to visit Armenia as soon as I had earned the necessary money."[4]
Overview
In the story, Saroyan tells about his encounter with an Armenian waiter he accidentally meets at a beer parlor in the Russi