Details:
Page: 573
Format: 130 X 195 mm
Word: ≈110 000
ISBN: 9789941307218
Requiem
Author: Zaira Arsenishvili
Description:
The rediscovered Great Georgian Novel by Zaira Arsenishvili is a unique literary work demonstrating multiple narrative techniques and thematic motives: fiction in memory, artist’s novel and the musicalization of fiction.
25 years after Stalin’s terror of the 1930s there came the time of “the Khrushchev Thaw.” A young violinist in the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Tbilisi is curious to find out what life was like for his elder colleagues a quarter of the century before. She digs into the history of the orchestra, constructing a story from the notes of the actual witnesses of the terror. Her search and narration unveils the tragedy which has real historical prototypes, including the great Evgeni Mikeladze—leading Georgian orchestra conductor executed during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge.
Life may seem different twenty five years after those events; a car approaching at night is no longer a sign of inescapable death… However, the scary ghosts of the past still haunt the survivors. The author asks whether human behavior really changed.