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Jernteatret
Otar Chiladzes roman "Jernteatret" foregår i byen Batum i Georgien. En by der frem til 1. verdenskrig var under russisk besættelse. Livet under fremmed herredømme og kampen for frihed skildres i romanen gennem to ægtepar, der forholder sig meget forskelligt til den russiske overmyndighed. Dilemmaerne bliver tydelige, da de to familiers børn - Gela og Nato - forelsker sig i hinanden. Med deres kærlighedshistorie som bagtæppe udfoldes et storladent drama om selvstændighedsbevægelser, politisk uro og de menneskelige konsekvenser. Otar Chiladze udgav romanen i 1981, hvor Georgien igen var under russisk besættelse. Bogen kan ikke skjule sit politiske sigte, og er aktuel ethvert sted på kloden, hvor befolkninger undertrykkes og hvor der slås hårdt ned på selvstændighedsbevægelser.
470 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 15, 2020
About the author
Otar Chiladze
29 books180 followersOtar Chiladze (ოთარ ჭილაძე) was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of the Georgian prose in the post-Stalin era. His novels characteristically fuse Sumerian and Hellenic mythology with the predicaments of a modern Georgian intellectual.
Chiladze was born in Sighnaghi, a town in Kakheti, the easternmost province of then-Soviet Georgia. He graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in journalism in 1956. His works, primary poetry, first appeared in the 1950s. At the same time, Chiladze engaged in literary journalism, working for leading magazines in Tbilisi. He gained popularity with his series of lengthy, atmospheric novels, such as A Man Was Going Down the Road (1972–3), "Everyone That Findeth Me" (1976), "Avelum" (1995), and others. He was a chief editor of the literary magazine Mnatobi since 1997. Chiladze also published several collections of poems and plays. He was awarded Shota Rustaveli Prize in 1983 and State Prize of Georgia in 1993.[1]
Chiladze died after a long illness in October 2009 and was buried at the Mtatsminda Pantheon in Tbilisi, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, scholars, and national heroes of Georgia are buried..[2] His elder brother Tamaz Chiladze is also a writer.
Chiladze was born in Sighnaghi, a town in Kakheti, the easternmost province of then-Soviet Georgia. He graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in journalism in 1956. His works, primary poetry, first appeared in the 1950s. At the same time, Chiladze engaged in literary journalism, working for leading magazines in Tbilisi. He gained popularity with his series of lengthy, atmospheric novels, such as A Man Was Going Down the Road (1972–3), "Everyone That Findeth Me" (1976), "Avelum" (1995), and others. He was a chief editor of the literary magazine Mnatobi since 1997. Chiladze also published several collections of poems and plays. He was awarded Shota Rustaveli Prize in 1983 and State Prize of Georgia in 1993.[1]
Chiladze died after a long illness in October 2009 and was buried at the Mtatsminda Pantheon in Tbilisi, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, scholars, and national heroes of Georgia are buried..[2] His elder brother Tamaz Chiladze is also a writer.
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