FORM No.100
KVARATSKHELIA ZVIAD
The central theme of Zviad Kvaratskhelia’s novel Form No.100 is a generation mined with explosives. He himself, seeking a name for it, explained, ‘We are the generation that has been mined. We’ve had our inner timer switched on and nobody knows when we are going to explode and shed blood.’ A pretty young girl called Martha becomes a victim of boys who have grown up in a mire of unaccountable lawlessness. She too is a child of this mire; In fact, she has herself decided to wade into that mire in order to find a way out and thus rescue her only brother, who is in prison expecting a hellish sentence. Everyone is equally embroiled in the entire system, a hellish system, from a government official to the person next door, and they all have their own reasons and peculiar way of offering Martha help. Form No.100 is a modern novel: it contains several texts each with its own linguistic diapason. The metatexts give each other clarity and, at the same time, an aura of mystery. Form No.100 can be said to be the story of a sin. A general sin, which alienates and at the same time unites several persons involved in the action, is the novel’s main subject for elaboration and the object of the author’s key research. A sin committed in one’s youth, its causes and effects are what the writer is telling us about. The novel gained Literary Award SABA 2014 in the category The Best Novel of the Year.
‘Form 100 could be called a cruel novel, for the most unrelenting truths of life have been turned into literary reality.’
T. Chiladze, writer, playwright, 2013
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