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Kote Jandieri | 1958- | The Word and the Book (Kote Jandieri, The Night of Cinderella, Tbilisi, 2009) | Prose | “Much earlier than Mallarme, Homer notes in Odyssey (chapter VIII), that Gods scheme and craft myriads of perils for people, in order that the coming generations dedicate songs to their torture... |
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Guram Dochanashvili | 1939- | Separately and together (Guram Dochanashvili, Stories, Vol. III, Tbilisi 2003) | Prose | “Had it not been for Heracles, […] they wouldn’t have been able to conquer the seven-gates Troy; Maharajas with wooden horses used to build Cheops Pyramids in Troy and they had... |
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Guram Dochanashvili | 1939- | Separately and together (Guram Dochanashvili, Stories, Vol. III, Tbilisi 2003) | Prose | “Rhetoric was created in Toscana, and the king of rhetoric was Cicero; Cicero was a Senator in Rome; Rome had 11 Caesars, […] four are also the elements of nature: air, water, fire and... |
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Guram Dochanashvili | 1939- | Separately and together (Guram Dochanashvili, Stories, Vol. III, Tbilisi 2003) | Prose | “Out of famous heroes of Troy, Agamemnon, to put it mildly, was not a very chaste man either. Grisha got confused… and then again, just like Achilles, he took insult for a woman”.... |
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Guram Dochanashvili | 1939- | Separately and together (Guram Dochanashvili, Stories, Vol. III, Tbilisi 2003) | Prose | “Accompanied by guitar he sang sadly, about how hero Hector died. - Who? Hector?! – Vasiko livened up at long last […] Whenever one clown came to the place, where Hector would... |
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Guram Dochanashvili | 1939- | Separately and together (Guram Dochanashvili, Stories, Vol. III, Tbilisi 2003) | Prose | “The word circus is of Latin origin and means circle […] But already in the ancient Crete-Mycenae, they used to grab the sculpted bull by the horns and somersault over it and later, in... |
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Guram Dochanashvili | 1939- | Separately and together (Guram Dochanashvili, Stories, Vol. III, Tbilisi 2003) | Prose | “She looks like Clytemnestra, damn her”, Vasil noted in Georgian […] She looked like Clytemnestra, damn her” (pg. 258) |
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Guram Dochanashvili | 1939- | Stone of Former Temple (Guram Dochanashvili, Four Volumes, V. IV, Tbilisi, 2003) | Prose | “There is a great difference between distinguished people, and especially between the ones we know – Vazha Pshavela and Nero… Andersen and Caligula… Van Gogh and... |
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Guram Dochanashvili | 1939- | Stone of Former Temple (Guram Dochanashvili, Four Volumes, V. IV, Tbilisi, 2003) | Prose | “Stendhal, Tolstoy, Mérimée […] Gilgamesh, Faulkner, Homer”. (pg. 637) |
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Guram Dochanashvili | 1939- | Stone of Former Temple (Guram Dochanashvili, Four Volumes, V. IV, Tbilisi, 2003) | Prose | “What Sisyphus and his pebble”. (pg. 636) |
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