NON FICTION FROM GEORGIA 2015 NON FICTION FROM GEORGIA / 2015 1 Non Fiction from Georgia Prepared and published by the Georgian National Book Center. The catalogue is distributed free of charge during the international Book Fairs to foreign publishers and editors. In case if you would like to receive PDF version of the catalogue, please contact: [email protected] Project Director Medea Metreveli Project Manager Nino Goginashvili Editors Irine Chogoshvili, Maia Danelia Contributors Georgian National Museum, Georgian Literature Museum, Goethe-Institute Tbilissi, G. Chubinashvili Centre for Art History, Foundation of Civic Education, Graphic Design Association Translators Patrick Donald Rayfield, Nino Goginashvili Design Manana Arabuli / zangodesign studio Georgian National Book Center Established in 2014 by the Ministry of Culture and Monument Pro- tection of Georgia supports the process of translation of Georgian and foreign literature, enhancing intercultural dialogue through lit- erature and presenting centuries-long Georgian intellectual heritage to the international literary and publishing arena. Contact Information: 4 Sanapiro Str. / 0105 Tbilisi / Georgia Email: [email protected] www.book.gov.ge Introduction Georgian art, history, philosophy, science, documentary prose, cookery… The literary materials that exist about Georgia and which have been produced in various periods and published between 2005 and 2015 in books and cata- logues will be of real interest to foreign readers interested in our country’s culture. The catalogue gathers together editions of both Georgian art and history, as well as samples of Non Fiction (documentary prose, memoirs, essays) by Georgian authors of several generations: these samples are of great relevance today, both in Georgia and beyond its borders, given current demands in the global literary and publishing context. Naturally, the aim of this catalogue cannot be to represent the whole diapason of Georgian publishing or all the important publications that have appeared in this sphere, but a variety of books and albums are presented, sorted by topic, will give everyone who is interested in Georgian culture, literature and history an idea of our country’s intellectual heritage and the great variety in its publishing arena. This catalogue is the first attempt by the Georgian National Book Centre to undertake a promotion outside Georgia’s borders not only of Georgian litera- ture but of the Georgian cultural heritage. In compiling the catalogue, the in- formation gathered was based on what was provided by Georgian publishing houses as well as material furnished by various art or scientific and scholarly institutes. We are convinced that the catalogue will be a good guide for foreign readers interested in our culture, history and intellectual heritage. The titles are presented in following order: ➔ Documentary Prose / Essays ➔ Art Books ➔ Books about Georgia NON FICTION FROM GEORGIA / 2015 3 DOCUMENTARY PROSE / ESSAYS DOCUMENTARY `bevri ram gadamxdenia, magram sakuTar Tavze dakvirvebam damarwmuna, rom mTeli cxovrebis ganmavlobaSi yvelaze didi levan gavlena Cemze dapatimrebis oTxwlian molodinsa da Tavisuflebis samwlian berZeniSvili aRkveTas mouxdenia. es gavlena imdenad levan berZeniSvili didia, rom sakmarisia, vinme gavicno, qarTveli iqneba es Tu ucxoeli, Crdili gzaze aucileblad avuxsni, rom odesRac politikuri patimari viyavi. aAka morCilaZis axali wigni Janrobrivad dokumentur vici, rom pirveli ar var, visac gansakuTrebulma garemoebebma prozas miekuTvneba, radgan aq araferia gamogonili. xelSi kalami aaRebina; Cvens rigebSi mwerali sabWoTa epoqis saqarTveloze wers – grafomanebic blomad iyvnen da dawyebuli stalinis droidan XX saukunis geniosebic, magram me „kalami aviRe~ 90-ian wlebamde. igi Zalian sainteresod mimoixilavs Crdilianu gzaze klaviatura movirge ara mxatvruli wignis dasawerad an dakarguli drois aTwleulebad dayofil periodebs da im cvlilebebs, dasabruneblad, aramed dakargvadi rac maT axlda. mkiTxvelis winaSe cocxldeba mTEeli personaJebis gadasarCenad, radgan epoqa Tavisi CrdilSi cxovrebis gziTa da bevri Tu es personaJebi daikargebian, mec ucnobi, `Crdils iqiT gasuli~ ambiT. gzaze Crdili davikargebi, da viRac SecdomiT ifiqrebs, rom marTla micnobda, raki Cems romelime wminda wyvdiadi leqcias daswrebia, televiziiT Cemi gamosvla unaxavs an interviu waukiTxavs~. levan berZeniSvili fasi 10.90 lari sulakauri.ge fasi 9.90 lari sulakauri.ge facebook.com/bakursulakauripublishing wminda wyvdiadi facebook.com/bakursulakauripublishing Shadow on the Road Absolute Darkness Author: Aka Morchiladze Author: L. Berdzenishvili The writer is describing the Soviet In this autobiographical book period in Georgia, beginning with Levan Berdzenishvili recalls, with Stalin’s times and ending in the humour and a peculiar nostalgia, 1990s. He surveys the period in the period when he was deported a very interesting way, decade by (1984-86): ‘All sorts of things hap- decade, examining the changes pened to me, but observing myself that occurred. The reader is given has convinced me that all through a vivid picture of a whole epoch, my life the greatest influence on me with its path lived in the shadows was my expectation of four years’ and with many unknown stories imprisonment and my three years’ and events ‘that went on beyond deprivation of freedom. The effect the shadows’. was so great that it was enough to ensure that I told whoever I got Number of pages: 214 to know, whether a Georgian or a Cover: Paperback non-Georgian, that I used to be a Size: 13X20 cm political prisoner.’ Published by: Bakur Sulakauri Publishing House / 2014 Number of Pages: 268 Cover: Paperback Size: 13X20 cm Published by: Bakur Sulakauri Publishing House / 2010 NON FICTION FROM GEORGIA / 2015 4 DOCUMENTARY PROSE / ESSAYS DOCUMENTARY gogi gvaxaria `am orma xatma – ekranma da mayurebelma – mTeli Cemi cxovrebis wesze, `pirad istoriaze~, e. i. biografiaze imoqmeda... Cemi saTvale xSirad ilaqeboda xolme cremliT – xan kinogmirebi matirebdnen, xanac cocxali adamianebi – realuri cxovreba, romelic Cems Taobas mZime da marTlac satirali gvqonda. gogi am cremlis istoria Taobis istoriaa – im Taobisa, romelic xruSCovis gadayenebisa da `ottepelis~ dasrulebis Semdeg mivida skolaSi, breJnevis epoqaSi iswavla da `pere stroikis~ xanaSi daiwyo muSaoba... mere ki daiSala, danawev rda – samoqalaqo omiT, afxazeTiT, qveynidan gaqceviT, kulturis gvaxaria dangreviTa da kulturis nacvlad fsevdokulturiT, narcisebis baRnaris aSenebiT. kinos moyvarulebi cnobili `vuaieristebi~ rom arian, amas ukve Tavad aRiareben. Cven yureba ufro gviyvars, vidre cxovreba; dakvirveba, cqera da TvalTvali mTel saTvale cremliani qveyanas gvirCevnia; Cven TiTqos ara varT amqveyanaze, ar vmonawileobT istoriul procesebSi. mxolod vakvirdebiT... da viTom ratom ar unda moindomos kacma, daweros erTi wigni mainc imaze, rac naxa da rasac daakvirda?!~ cremliani saTvale gogi gvaxaria fasi 10.90 lari sulakauri.ge facebook.com/bakursulakauripublishing Tear-Stained Interview with Father Spectacles Author: G. Charkviani Author: G. Gvakharia Gela Charkviani’s Interview with Tear-Stained Spectacles is a collec- Father is an original and wide- tion of documentary memories ranging book of great importance. of G. Gvakharia, which include It is a dialogue between father and interesting historical materials son (which took place from 1989 of Georgian reality starting from to 1992), two different genera- early 70s up to 2004. The author, tions, people of differing beliefs a well-known Georgian art critic and outlooks, in which attention is and journalist describes his book focussed on very important ques- as ‘personal history’ and addresses tions. the reader: Kandid Charkviani was then the ‘These two images, the screen and only person who had personal the spectator, have affected all information about Stalin’s Kremlin my way of life, my ‘personal his- and its relationship with Georgia. tory’, my biography in fact… My For fourteen years, from 1938 to spectacles are often smeared with 1952, he had been in charge of the tears, sometimes film heroes make Georgian communist party Central me cry, and sometimes real human Committee, and there was no com- beings do: the actual life which for petent source for those times com- my generation has been hard and, parable with him. The book will in truth, something to cry about.’ interest anyone who wants to know about the phenomenon of Stalin, as Number of Pages: 400 well as about Soviet history. Cover: Paperback Size: 14.5X21.5 cm Number of pages: 128 Published by: Bakur Sulakauri Cover: Paperback Publishing House / 2013 Size: 13X19 cm Published by: Intelekti Publishers / 2013 NON FICTION FROM GEORGIA / 2015 5 DOCUMENTARY PROSE / ESSAYS DOCUMENTARY irakli maxaraZe kinoreJisori, mkvlevari. Teatraluri institutis kursdamTavrebuli. gadaRebuli aqvs dokumenturi da animaciuri filmebi: `lelos Semobruneba~, `uaild uesTis mxedrebi~, `vinc movida gaumarjos!~ `guruli firalebi~, `dimitri SevardnaZe~. aris avtori wignebisa: `guruli mxedrebi amerikaSi~, `erTi muWa vesTerni~, `guruli firalebi~, `teroristebi~, `qarTvelebi amerikaSi~. misi statiebi ibeWdeba qarTul da amerikul JurnalebSi. winamdebare wigni eZRvneba qarTuli kinos munj periods. masSi moTxrobilia im adamianebze, vinc safuZveli Cauyara saqarTveloSi kinoTeatrebis mowyoba-aSenebas, Camotanili Tu aqve gadaRebuli qronikis komerciul-Cveneba-gasaRebas; pirvel qarTul dokumentur da mxatvrul filmebze, maT avtorebsa, Semqmnelebsa da msaxiobebze; aRwerilia kinomoRvaweebTan dakavSirebuli saintereso ambebi. aseve, rogori transformacia ganicada