Irakli Samsonadze’s novel covers the last decade of the 20th century, the time when bureaucracy and profiteering boomed in poverty-stricken Georgia. THE CUSHION narrates about the people and the country buried under the empire ruins. The novel describes a whole range of human emotions, recalls numerous significant events of the recent past, all told following the flow of life. The novel’s...
"In Soviet Georgia, 1972, thirty-three year old Besik Kharanauli wagged his finger in the face of tradition: he was not going to romanticize war, write about heroes or glorify the Soviet system. Instead, he would write about the struggles of an everyman, an anti-hero who despairs. The form and subject matter were revolutionary—nothing other than free verse would do, free verse in a poetry...
В цьому виданні зібрано краще з прозової спадщини класика грузинської літератури Акакія Церетелі (1840—1915) — біографічна повість «Пережите» та історична «Баші-ачукі», вибрані статті про літературу, театр та інше.
One book apparently is not enough for the long history of Georgia. “Studies in the History of Georgia” has been published in eight volumes in the Georgian language and in five volumes in Russian. The present book is concise but tells the history of Georgia from the ancient era (Stone Age, i.e. 35,000 years ago) through the modern times (including the Rose Revolution of 2003 and Russian...
