Kvachi Kvachantiradze: A Novel (Georgian Literature Series) - Softcover

Javakhishvili, Mikheil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564788792 ISBN 13: 9781564788795

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2015

Synopsis

This is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank-robber, associate of Rasputin, filmmaker, revolutionary, and pimp. Though originally denounced as pornographic, Kvachi's tale is one of the great classics of twentieth-century Georgian literature--and a hilarious romp to boot.

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Review:

"Kvachi is... an international con-man, through whose eyes we see Europe and Russia as nothing but a rogue's hunting ground.... The abrupt, sardonic prose brims over with inventiveness." ? -- Donald Rayfield, The Literature of Georgia

Kvachi is... an international con-man, through whose eyes we see Europe and Russia as nothing but a rogue's hunting ground.... The abrupt, sardonic prose brims over with inventiveness.--Donald Rayfield "The Literature of Georgia "

About the Author:

Mikheil Javakhishvili was born in 1880, and died in 1937. He is considered one of the primary architects of modern Georgian literature, bringing the inventiveness of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French writing into his country. He work ran afoul of Soviet authorities, however, and he was executed during Stalin's Great Purge, and his work was banned for twenty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1564788792
• ISBN 13: 9781564788795
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512