Charles Aznavour’s 94 Years in One Book:

The French chanson giant’s treasured memories, reflections, life bitterness, aspirations, struggles, love, sorrow, the essence of life, the rules for persevering, self-education, and the path to perfection—these encompass the multiple lives of Charles Aznavour in 94 years, all captured in one book: "Aznavour: Prose, Poems."

The heart of this giant, ever clinging to life, beat in a whisper, continually recounting past days and the final door of love on the road to eternity. The titles of Aznavour’s Armenian-translated books, which are already familiar to Armenian-speaking readers in separate volumes, echo these sentiments.

Life was his teacher; his education came from Cornell, Racine, Guitry, Hugo, and Pagnol. The lack of formal higher education drove the legendary artist to study and read relentlessly. His relatives claimed that Charles had a form of “book bulimia,” while he insisted that his library was his temple.

"When I’m going to die, I want to fall at my desk... I love people who disappear suddenly..."

How did his parents, Knar and Misha, remain in France while waiting for U.S. immigration papers? How did he end up penniless in the United States? Who were the women in his life who inspired and admired him? What pain and sorrow did he carry with him? Readers will find answers to these questions in Aznavour’s autobiographies, where he meticulously detailed episodes of his life as if to sincerely open his heart to his native audience.

"...I have already reached the age limit, and from this moment, I must count how many months, days, and hours are left, which may be the last. This is the age when one should strive to live fully every second. It is hard to imagine that this life was given to you and is now being taken away. I never take back what I give."

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