სიბრძნე სიცრუისა
Novel
Palitra L Publishing 2013
14X20
216 pages
ISBN: 9789941213762

WISDOM OF FANCY

TORESA MOSSY
Wisdom of Fancy is a modern romance about a small town which is aware of everything: what has happened, what is going on and what is going to take place … The plot of the story develops in Telavi. The narrative’s central character, Noti, lets other characters-Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si-become major heroes and primary figures of the novel’s seven chapters. Noti starts telling the story from the age of fifteen, when he falls in love with Do, the wife of his friend-Dziezi. The couple makes love after Dziezi’s death, on his grave, just for one night. The town itself, besides being the space where the action takes place, sometimes becomes a character and plays the role of a guard, from which Noti is always hiding and running away. Noti’s last love affair involves Si, the last note in the scale and a victim of domestic violence. Finally, Noti realizes that he has to leave the area which has become a town of ghosts. Noti cannot live like that, because he is a musical note! He has understood that there is an unbearable gap between Wisdom and Lies and time has come to make his choice. 
 
EXTRACT
Translated into English by Ekaterine Machitidze


Chapter 1

ABOUT ME

Once upon a time there was the small provincial town of Telavi and there was a great man who lived in that town of Telavi and his name was NOTE. So, the great man by the name of NOTE, who lived in the small provincial town of Telavi, was I.


Chapter 2

ABOUT C

There is a water channel along the town of Telavi and everyone calls this channel Khevi, a ravine. The structure that provides passage over Khevi is called PikrisKhidi, which means a thoughtful bridge, or simply Khidi, a bridge. This thoughtful bridge spans between two parts of the town. The left part is called Dzveli Galavani, an ancient wall, in Georgian. As for the right part of Telavi, here you can see the central square and the  crenellated wall of the Royal Palace of the Kings of Kakheti, which was built by Archil II in the seventeenth century. Within the wall,there is theGallery of Art and the School No.1. VazhaPshavela and I and many other men of mark studied at this school. In the vicinity of the same educational institution you can see the Museum of Ethnography and the remains of the Palace of Erekle II. On the opposite side of the palace there is a hill crowned by the Hotel Intourist, a true specimen of the Soviet classics. In summer, everyone gathers at the square where you can see an enormous building. Some people think it might have been a department store or a railway station, but since the 1970s it has been accommodating the Public Theatre of Telavi. The hazardous building of the old theatre, which had been called the Houseof Culture till 2012, was replaced by the white House of Justice, a typical specimen of President Saakashvili’s (2003-2013) architecture. There was a bar in the vault of the House of Culture, the Baroque Bar. When I was a child, we often visited that bar. The red piano-shaped board with gold letters was considered to be the signboard of the establishment, and the establishment itself was a large smoke-filled hall.
I got acquainted with C there...(See PDF) 



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