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Im vorliegenden Band werden drei Erzählungen „Zizka“, „Eliso“ und „Der Stammesälteste Gotscha“ des bekannten georgischen Prosaikers Aleksandre Kasbegi (1848-1893) in deutscher Sprache präsentiert.
Aleksandre Kasbegi ist einer der berühmtesten Schriftsteller Georgiens des 19. Jahr-hunderts und bislang in den deutschsprachigen Ländern noch nie durch eine He-rausgabe gewürdigt worden.
Aleksandre Kasbegis Schaffenszeit ist eine relativ kurze: sie dauerte nicht einmal 10 Jahre. Für den Erzählungsband wurden seine allererste Erzählung (1880), noch in der Art eines Märchens geschrieben, sowie zwei seiner bekanntesten Werke (1882 und 1884) ausgewählt, die insgesamt einen ersten Einblick in das Schaffen und den Entwicklungsweg des Schriftstellers aus dem Hochgebirge des Kaukasus geben.
Kasbegis Werke widerspiegeln die gesellschaftspolitische Situation Georgiens sowie des Kaukasus, ermöglichen interessante Einblicke in das Innenleben der Kaukasier mit ihren Sitten und Gebräuchen und eröffnen damit zugleich Hintergrundwissen für die heutigen Ereignisse im Kaukasus.
In erster Linie sind die Erzählungen Literatur, die emotional erregend miterleben lassen: zum Beispiel werden die tragische Tat des Stammesältesten Gotscha oder die Liebe zwischen der Tschetschenin Eliso und dem Georgier Washia den Leser tief berühren.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1882

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Alexander Kazbegi

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Alexander Kazbegi (Georgian: ალექსანდრე ყაზბეგი, Aleksandre Kazbegi) (1848–1893) was a Georgian writer, famous for his 1883 novel The Patricide.

Kazbegi was the great grandson of Kazibek Chopikashvili, a local feudal magnate who was in charge of collecting tolls on the Georgian Military Highway. Alexandre Kazbegi studied in Tblisi, Saint Petersburg and Moscow, but on returning home, decided to become a shepherd to experience the lives of the local people. He later worked as a journalist, and then became a novelist and playwright. In his later life, he suffered from insanity. After his death in Tbilisi, his coffin was carried across the Jvari Pass to his hometown of Kazbegi (now renamed Stepantsminda), which also preserves his childhood home as a museum in his honor.

His most famous work, the novel The Patricide is about a heroic Caucasian bandit named Koba, who, much like Robin Hood, is a defender of the poor. Koba has nothing but contempt for authority, a proclivity towards violence, and a firm belief in vengeance. Kazbegi's work was a major inspiration to Iosif Jughashvili, later known as Joseph Stalin, who used Koba as a revolutionary pseudonym.

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ამ კაცთან ყველა და ყველაფერი რო არ ამოწყდეს არ შეიძლება ოდესმე ;დ?
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July 20, 2024
ძალიან მაგარია.
სამწუხაროდ, იმაში მართალია ჩვენ რომ გვაბრალებს ჩეჩნები წიგნში თავიან უბედურებას.
მართლა, დავეხმარეთ კავკასიელი ხალხის დიდ ჭირს იმაში, რომ კავკასია დაეპყრო.

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