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In Minto moved to London and from to he contributed literary and political articles to The Examiner , and later he was on the leader-writing staff of The Daily News and The Pall Mall Gazette. During this period Minto "was considered to be an able and pungent critic of Lord Beaconsfield 's imperial policies". Lewis Griffiths, rector of Swindon, Gloucestershire. A trip to Greece gave him some respite but he died of his ailments on 1 March He had two sons, William and Charles.
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On 2 July the elder son, Lt. William Bain Griffiths Minto, "died of injuries received while firing [a] peace salute at Aberdeen". These days, A Man Was Going Down the Road is among the most loved books in Georgia, however, it has to be mentioned that reading and understanding this book requires a well-prepared reader.
The novel is divided into three parts: Aeetes, Ukheiro, and Parnaoz. It is a brilliant interpretation of the myth of Medea and the Argonauts, arguably one of the best both in Georgian and world literature.
One of the first mentions of the Argo and the Argonauts, who sail to the land of Colchis which is the western part of contemporary Georgia to steal the Golden Fleece, are found in the Iliad and the Odyssey , of course. Medea is the first character in literature to be from Georgia. Besik Kharanauli, now 78 years old, is perhaps the most important contemporary Georgian poet there is. He began literary career in , and his first collection was published in From the very beginning, his poetry stood out as non-traditional, modernist; at the same time, it demonstrated close ties with Georgian folk poetry, with shades of Shaver dialect Fshavi is one of the mountainous regions of Georgia.
Tabidze had declared himself the King of Poetry in his own lifetime, and the vast influence of his work has been difficult to avoid for every poet after him, including major contemporary poets. But Kharanauli refused to follow writing norms. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize several times and his works have been translated into several languages.
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What can you tell us about it? Speaking of this book, Besik Kharanauli recalled that, like many other poets, he was to a certain extent inspired by Galaktion Tabidze; however, the inspiration soon exhausted itself, and the poet confessed that he would no longer be able to write in such manner, as the traditional or the classical poetic forms prevented him from fully expressing himself.
The poem describes an ordinary day in the life of a single person, with a focus on existential problems. One ordinary morning he wakes up feeling something extraordinary and strange. He realizes that his life is being wasted, and he vows to strive for perfection and absolute truth; however, God remains dead.
The poem is sad and ironic at the same time. The poet mocks this lyric person who cannot form his own ideas of events and issues, who prefers to have someone else make decisions for him—he longs for someone more powerful to obey and to free him from the burden of responsibility. The main character also finds true love to be too great a burden, so he proves a loser in love as well. Its passage into print was far from straightforward—presumably because it was perceived as criticising the regime?
The Lame Doll is a rather provocative title. This poem was not a direct attack against the Soviet Union, yet when Kharanauli presented the work to the publishing house, the editor found it impossible to proceed. This was down to the form of the poem—blank verse! Kharanauli was then assisted by a friend employed at the publishing house. What are your own memories of those days? I was born 32 years ago, in , in the Soviet Republic, and in , I became the citizen of an independent Georgia.
I was too young to remember much, but I have heard a great deal from family and acquaintances, and read countless accounts. My father Tengiz Jobava was a dissident. As early as , he was a member of an illegal, underground organization founded in the Georgian city of Zugdidi, which intended to awaken the national spirit through the dissemination of secret proclamations. At that time, he worked at a press and he would secretly take fonts away to help print these illicit proclamations. In , he was arrested and held in the cellar of the KGB building for a long time.
They tried to make him speak about his secret activities by torturing him physically and psychologically. Thankfully, because the officials neither broke him nor found any proclamations hidden in his house, they were not able to prove his guilt and had to let him go. From the s, he fought alongside Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the future first president of independent Georgia and the leader of the national liberation movement.
So, naturally, the first memories of my childhood are associated with the political events of the time; in fact, I hardly have any memories from my childhood that are not associated with politics. The tragedy of that day—April 9, , when the Soviet army violently repressed peaceful Georgian protesters, who had gathered in front of the parliament building to demand independence—resulted in the death of 21 people, while many others were injured.
In that sense, the Soviet regime put an end to its own reign—change had to come, although of course it was not straightforward and the price was great. The declaration of independence in was soon followed by a coup, the persecution of President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, and his death in ambiguous circumstances the official version states that it was a suicide, however, most people believe the president was betrayed and murdered. Then came war between Georgia and Russia, as a result of which Russia occupied Abkhazia, the oldest region of Georgia.
Many refugees came from Abkhazia and settled in Georgian cities. About that same time, criminal groups began to rule the streets, rob houses and terrorize civilians—the country was plunged into a whirlwind of crime and corruption. I remember how inflation began, and deposits and savings, which had accumulated in bank accounts for years, lost all value. I remember, how the gas supply was cut permanently, and a large cloud of smoke appeared above the city, as the entire population resorted to wood-burning stoves, brought in from rural villages, to warm themselves.
Of course, not everyone could afford firewood, and they had to stay in bed with their all their clothes and blankets on. I remember how the electricity went off every day—sometimes we had none for several days, and we would sit in the dark, reading and studying by candlelight. The Cushion chronicles the events of that period, when the country was full of dishonest bureaucrats and black marketeers.
Everyone and everything seems to have transformed: former sportsmen are now politicians, former peasants are now traders, former builders, taxi drivers or doctors are now directors of construction companies, former writers are now smugglers. The writer has a wife and a son he needs to support. He also has a friend called Vakho, a drug addict with whom he intends to set up a business, in the hope of keeping himself and his family alive the lack of money leads to his frequent family conflict. Everybody is trying to save him or herself. At one point, the friends decide to go to church—but religious life proves to be a disappointment and offers them no consolation.
No ideology can get through to him. Unfamiliar and strange rituals, which have nothing to do with faith, seem to have become normal.
That plan fails, too. The text is highly emotional, and it makes the reader sympathize with these characters trying to crawl out from under the ruins of the Soviet Union. The form of the novel is also very original and interesting. Big ideas are conveyed through short, succinct sentences, sometimes of just two or three words. So the reader can read the entire book in a single day, too. Irakli Samsonadze, who, as I mentioned was also a playwright and worked on movie scripts too, once explained it himself. This meant he needed to choose precisely the one word that would convey the whole scene.
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