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| Epoch | 1939- |
| Work | Separately and together (Guram Dochanashvili, Stories, Vol. III, Tbilisi 2003) |
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| Quote | “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 be killed by the man with heel, one Venetian, it turns out, was paying the clown one gold to stop singing […] to prolong Hector’s life just for one more day […] and did Hector die? […] I said, did Hector die? […] In the whole of Homer, Hector is my most beloved hero, as Odysseus was cunning and a real wheeler-dealer, he could even humiliate himself if he needed to… I’m not really impressed with Achilles’ heroic deeds either […] He didn’t even manage to take care of that one heel of his, did he? But he paid for his sin committed to Hector… In the midst of fighting he up and took offence because of some woman, went and lay himself down somewhere at a distance. Was Patroclus to be killed for him to get enraged? Very nice… Did he go to war for Patroclus in the first place? […] But Hector, yes Hector […] He didn’t even manage to see his legitimate wife, so, if there was a real hero in the whole of Trojan War, it was Hector! Because of the lust of his light-minded brother, always under the Patroclus’, Achilles,’ Odysseus’ Agamemnon’s swords, as sharp as Kotika’s razor […] Only once, he managed to steel some time for himself and go to see his wife and child; he was so tired, tortured, dirtied with blood and mud, that this handsome hero no longer resembled a human being and when he took his son in his hands, the child started to cry out of fear looking at him! And all of this, for somebody else’s sake!” (pg. 275-276) |
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