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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | Unwritten Poem (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “He considered Guri’s Pericles’ part a very covetable material for an actor […] Who will stage “Pericles’-type of play by this world genius”. (pg. 414) |
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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | Unwritten Poem (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “He still has two more wishes: performing Shakespeare’s “Pericles” and writing a poem on David Machabeli’s life”. (pg. 412) |
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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | A.Th.E. (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “A surprising threesome was imaging itself in his head: Aphrodite, Themisto and Ello […] You are ATHE, ATHE, my… Aphrodite, Themisto, Ello… “(pg. 394) |
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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | A.Th.E. (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “From the monk they learned, that in ancient, pagan times, some Georgian queen had brought a statue of a nude woman from Greece and erected it exactly in this place, between the white columns... |
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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | Samson’s Hair (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “This much he knew: his Muse had died”. (pg.349) |
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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | Thoughts, thoughts!... (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “I was mistaken, when full of admiration for Keto, I used to make frames of roses-hyacinths-irises and paint in them a stunning nymph!” (pg. 316) |
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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | The Son (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “Even philosopher Plato could not escape his time. Even this great and wise man left slaves as slaves in his ideal “Republic”, and even the school boarding house alluded to by you... |
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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | Fairy-tale (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “Quick-tempered autumn grasped restive Amur by his wings […] Amor sat down into a sofa […]…, Amor knows, that he cannot resist your freezing power […] Little... |
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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | If I … If I (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “Noble old Chronos, of Olympian countenance, grins to himself like Mephistopheles a little distance away” (pg. 63) |
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| Shalva Dadiani | 1874-1959 | Doubt (Shalva Dadiani, Selected Works, Volume I, Tbilisi, 1958) | Prose | “Even Prometheus would not be able to snatch fire from Gods then! And Aristotle wouldn’t be able to say what he wanted to say.”(pg.51) |
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