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Including the author's classic essay on world literature--also appearing in English for the first time--and with pieces chosen from his vast body of work for their playfulness
observes with surreal vision the bleak countryside of his nation
He baits us on laughter and lands us on disaster
a fantastic
battered with an attitude and bound to offend everybody
Kvachi Serbia Including the author's classic essayKvachi is . . . an international con man, through whose eyes we see Europe and Russia as nothing but a rogues hunting ground . . . The abrupt, sardonic prose brims over with inventiveness. Donald Rayfield, The Literature of Georgia This is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank robber, associate of Rasputin,