Kvachi SerbiaKvachi 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,
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observes with surreal vision the bleak countryside of his nation
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battered with an attitude and bound to offend everybody
self-destructs sentence by sentence
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
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He baits us on laughter and lands us on disaster